Newton Aycliffe town centre during lockdown Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT THE areas with the lowest Covid infection rates in our region have been revealed as council leaders urge people to follow the national Stay Home guidance. 46 postcode areas across County Durham, Darlington, Teesside and North Yorkshire have recorded the lowest infections in the past week. Public Health England data made available last night shows where in the region case rates are at the lowest. Out of those 46 which have all recorded an infection rate of fewer than 100 cases per 100,000 people, five are considered to have surpressed the virus. Postcodes including Newton Aycliffe West, Gilesgate and Old Durham have all recorded fewer than two Covid cases meaning they are not flagged by Public Health England.
21 County Durham areas with the lowest coronavirus infection rates
County Durham has seen its rate of infection drop to 180.0 after recording 954 cases - a drop of 20.5%.
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These are the areas of the County Durham with the lowest coronavirus infection rates.
horowitz, who found no bias to say you better ask somebody, ask someone who might be lying about his report. glenn kirsher. your view, sir? ari, the thing is, ig horowitz met with ag barr, john durham before reaching his conclusions and gave them every opportunity to say please show me whatever evidence you have may impact my conclusion, that may show i m wrong, that this was a fairly opened investigation, that there was enough evidence, adequate predication as they say. neither ag barr, nor john durham could offer him anything. ari, if those two men have blockbuster evidence that this was a witch hunt, that this was not have been opened the way it was, don t you think they would be screaming it from the
uncharacterist uncharacteristic, flowery, heated opening. fisa court identified 25 cases in which it was misled by the fbi. internal fbi of 2006 dozens of inaccuracies provided by. fisa court. let s have a fullsome conversation about this about the future of the fi sachlt court and representations made to it. senator durbin basically accusing republicans of cherry picking this. trump allies are using some of these issues to try to muddy the waters on the broader conclusions. take attorney general barr, saying he has his own view that the evidence was insufficient to open the probe, but that contradicts what this whole process was about and what the report found. meanwhile u.s. attorney durham releasing this rare and potentially misleading statement that he just doesn t agree with some of the reports conclusions. today, lawmakers asked about that very disagreement. take a look. did attorney general barr
rooftops? i do. i do. i read the report. it s long but it s interesting in some ways but it s fundamental debunking of the witch hunt is the most important thing. that s why they cared about it. they didn t care about civil liberties in theory or practice, whatever. republicans on this committee as we reported largely backed the very laws for the way these warrants are handed out. if they want to rewrite them, they can, if they care about the policy. if there was evidence of, i don t know, a broom or witch hat or photos of witches, whatever, you would think this would be the time to dramatically unfurl it. instead, mr. durham, who one of our analysts pointed out, during the entire cia tapes case, when he was getting slammed by all sides, never issued a public statement. coughs up a statement that looks like vintage barr, four-page letter type spin. not the old durham, if you will. does that give you concern about this durham probe that now is