What is happening with Covid-19 in North Somerset? Part 5 – don’t go to Bristol?
So, what’s been happening to the number of Covid-19 cases in North Somerset and Bristol according to government figures over the last month? Well, in North Somerset it has been steady as you go, with new cases confirmed at a rate of less than one a day (0.8 per day). After the horror rate of nearly seven new cases a day through April and May, this is very good news, even if we have ended up with a total recorded rate of 434 cases per 100000 people. The picture for Bristol is rather more concerning at present – see the graph. Over July, when the figures included both NHS and private test results, new cases were recorded at a rate of three every two days. This doubled to three a day for the second half of July and since the beginning of August has doubled again to nearly seven new cases a day. OK, the total rate of infection is still less than North Somerset, at 317 cases per 100000 people, but Bristol is catching up fast. This is evidence of an a...