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 acceleration in infection and one m