A coronavirus outbreak at paedophile pop star Gary Glitter s prison has caused the local town s infection rate to soar to one of the highest in the country.
Underhill and The Grove – a council area on Dorset s Isle of Portland, which is home to HMP The Verne where the 76-year-old is locked up – recorded 927 cases per 100,000 people last week.
Only four areas of England had bigger outbreaks in the week that ended February 20, according to Department of Health data that break the country down into 7,000 postcode-based areas.
And the rate of infection in that one small area of Dorset is 10 times higher than the rate for the county as a whole.
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