Child Okeford is a rural Dorset village. CORONAVIRUS cases in an area of Dorset have surged within the space of a week, according to the latest available data. An interactive map, which uses Public Health England data, shows how many people have tested positive for the virus in each area of the county over the seven-day period up to Thursday, January 28. Public Health England breaks down the numbers of coronavirus cases into neighbourhoods called Middle Super Output Areas (MSOAs), which are smaller than council wards and based on population rather than geographical area. The interactive map allows users to type in their postcode and see how many cases were reported in their area and if it has increased or decreased from the week before. The darker the colour on the image, the more positive test results have been recorded.
Covid: How Dorset looks today compared to a month ago THE changing picture of Dorset’s Covid-19 situation can be seen in a series of maps on the government website. The maps, which use data from Public Health England, give an encouraging snapshot as the number of cases continue to decrease. Here we take a look back at how things have changed dramatically over the past four weeks.
November 14 The BCP area had five Covid ‘hotspots’, these were Bearwood, Winton, Moordown, Central Bournemouth and Springbourne & Queen s Park. Winton had the highest number of cases at 62 with a rolling rate per 100,000 people of 649.2.