WINCHESTER district is potentially Covid-free for the first time in more than six months. The official Government shows the 14 areas of the district with two or fewer new cases in the seven days to April 21, marking them white on the map. Wednesday April 21 is the most recent day for which localised figures are available. The last two area with more than two cases over the weekend had been
Whiteley, Knowle and Wickham and
Winchester Central and South. It is unclear whether there are no cases in an area or just one or two. All 14 areas of the Winchester district are now marked white on the Government map
Just TWO Covid clusters remain in Winchester - here s where JUST two places in the Winchester district are now recording three or more Covid-19 cases. Since Monday only six cases of coronavirus were recorded across the district, but in the seven days leading up to April 23 just nine cases were registered, down from 18 in the previous week. According to the latest data from the Government’s interactive map, up to April 18, there are two areas of Winchester still showing more than three cases – three is the lowest number needed to bring the cluster back on to the map. Those areas are Winchester Central and South and Winchester West.
FOR the 50th day, no Covid-related deaths have been reported in the Winchester district. Since the start if the first lockdown last spring 183 people have died within 28 days of a positive test. There have been no new ones since March 3. Covid-19 has been virtually eliminated across the district with today just two area with more than two cases in the last seven days: Winchester West and Winchester Central and South, In both area there have been four cases in the seven days to April 16, the most recent day for which localised statistics are available. The twelve other areas of the Winchester district have reported fewer than three cases in those seven days and are now marked white on the Government map.
The last place in the city with more than two cases was
Winchester West, the area that includes Fulflood and Weeke, but that has changed. The latest information relating to Covid-19 was updated this afternoon and reports only three cases in two other parts of the district:
Whiteley, Knowle and Wickham and
Denmead and Southwick with just three cases each in the seven days to April 9, the most recent day for which localised figures are available. Twelve other areas have reported fewer than three cases in those seven days and are now marked white on the Government map, see below:
There have been increases in three areas in the week to Sunday March 7:
Winchester West, three cases, up one;
Winchester North and Sparsholt, five cases, up two;
Whiteley, Knowle and Wickham, four cases, up one. For the first time in many months no area of the Winchester district is above the national average for Covid cases. Across the NHS in Hampshire only three deaths have been reported today: one each in Hampshire Hospitals that includes the Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester, and in Portsmouth and Southampton. The number of patients who have died since the start of the pandemic is 1,856, with 436 in HHFT.