Cases still decreasing
CORONAVIRUS cases in South Oxfordshire have been declining for almost a month.
Laboratory or lateral flow device tests have confirmed 348 new cases of covid-19 within the past seven days compared with 432 cases the week before that and a peak of 713 cases in the seven days from the beginning of January.
The infection rate is down from last week’s figure of 304.1 cases per 100,000 of the population to 245.
The total number of cases since the start of the outbreak is now 4,940.
A total of 133 people in the district have died within 28 days of a positive coronavirus diagnosis, up from last week’s tally of 121.