Four North Derbyshire areas among top ten in country with highest infection rate rises

Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales and North East Derbyshire were all in the top ten for week-on-week infection rate increases.

In Bolsover the infection rate now stands at 513.9 for the week to Januray 22, having increased from 481.6 the week before.

This reflects an increase of 26 new cases recorded in seven days, from 388 to 414. This is the sharpest increase in England.

It is an improvement on the week to yesterday however, when Bolsover was the area in England with the sharpest rise in new cases for those seven days.

In Chesterfield the rate was 403.2 (423 new cases) for the week to January 22, up from 379.4 (398 new cases) the week before.

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In the Derbyshire Dales it rose from 211.5 to 266.9, reflecting an increase from 153 new cases one week to 193 the next.

And in North Est Derbyshire the rate went from 327.2 (332 new cases) to 352.8 (358 new cases).

In the two other North Derbyshire areas, the infection rate fell.

In the Amber Valley it went from 431.5 (553 new cases) to 410.5 (526 new cases), and in the High Peak it fell from 307.6 (285 new cases) to 261.2 (242).

The infection rate is expressed as the number of new cases per 100,000 people.

Data for the most recent four days (January 23-26) has been excluded as it is incomplete and does not reflect the true number of cases.