York's coronavirus rate has risen slightly again
YORK'S Covid infection rate has risen slightly again and is now only just below the English national average.
Public Health England said today that the seven-day rolling rate in the City of York Council area in the week to April 21 was 19.9 per 100,000 people.
The figure is up from 18 on Sunday and from below 10 earlier this month, and it compares with an average rate of 24.8 for the whole of England.
PHE said the York area had seen an additional four new cases in the past 24 hours, taking the total since the pandemic began to 12,245.
It said the rolling rate in North Yorkshire had risen slightly to 28 from 27.7 and in East Yorkshire it had risen from 36.1 to 38.1.
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