Barnard Castle town centre during a national lockdown Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT
THE County Durham towns which have seen the fewest number of Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began have been revealed.
A total of eleven towns and villages across the county have each seen fewer than 400 infections over the entire pandemic - the past twelve months.
Northern Echo analysis of Public Health England data has found that almost each of the eleven areas had seen the equivalent of just one confirmed case per day.
Most recent figures, published on Thursday, shows the picture in every single neighbourhood between April 2020 and April 2021.