The new strain of the coronavirus infection is still spreading rapidly through Hampshire and there is, currently, no sign of it immediately abating. The number of new infections is increasing daily. In the past week 6-12 January there were 7263 new cases recorded across the Hampshire county area, excluding Southampton, Portsmouth and the Isle of Wight, which have all shown a large rise in new infections, especially in the Isle of Wight, where areas in East Wight are now in the ‘black’ area and showing an infection rate of more 2,000 per 100,000 population. The island has moved from having the lowest level of infections in the county geographically, to the highest. In the month from 12 December (1011 cases) to 12 January (4402 cases) it recorded another 3391 new cases, a rise of 335%. Most of this increase occurred from the start of the holiday period (3294 – 297% from 20 December) which suggests that many people ignored government advice and went to the Island to visit families or their holiday homes for the Christmas and New Year period. There is no other logical explanation for the rapid change in the situation over such a short time. .
In the three district areas most relevant to the Candover Valley there has been a significant increase in all areas, with Basingstoke & Deane recording another 928 cases to bring its rate per 100k to 525.6, East Hampshire had another 501 cases and a rate of 409.5 and Winchester was 452 more, bringing its rate to 362 per 100,000. The Hampshire county area rate is now 525.3 per 100,000.
In the local MSOAs, where the numbers of new cases lag five days behind, Old Basing & the Candovers entered the ‘red’ zone on 7 January with a rolling seven-day rate of 517 per 100,000 and 40 active cases. Four Marks & Tisted, which includes Lower and Upper Wield, has 36 active cases and a rolling rate of 293 and Springvale & Itchen Abbas, which includes Northington and Swarraton, has 18 active cases and a rate of 261. Alresford, which was a Coronavirus hotspot in mid-November, has now dropped out of the red zone with 28 active cases and a rate of 330.9 on 7 January.
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