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On average, 244.5 per 100,000 people in England are confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus.
In the small town of Barrow-in-Furness, the number is much higher.
Barrow has now confirmed 552 cases of infection, which is equivalent to 882.2 per 100,000 residents. In other words, it is more than three times higher than the national average, The Guardian writes.
In addition, 61 people have died of coronary infection in the city’s hospitals and nursing homes. With a population of around 64,000 inhabitants, it is a high number.
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Northeast England, where Barrow is located, is the area of the country with the highest proportion of infected. It shows figures from the UK health system, which Sky News has reproduced.
I do not know why
It is unclear why the number of people infected at Barrow is so high, writes The Guardian.
Health director Colin Cox in the Cumbria district says one of the reasons for the high infection rate is that more people are being tested in Barrow than in other cities.
“The test rate at Barrow has been two to three times higher than other parts of north west England, so that explains a good bit, but I don’t think it explains everything,” Cox told The Guardian.
Lee Roberts says he believes part of the reason is that you live very close to parts of the city and that you have great health disparities.
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Hitting hard
The United Kingdom is now one of the countries in the world most affected by the coronavirus, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University.
A total of more than 33,000 people have died of coronary infection in the country. Thus, they rank second behind the United States, which has more than 85,000 coronary-related deaths.
In the list of confirmed cases of infection, both the United States and Russia are above them, with 1.3 million and 240,000 confirmed cases of infection in the two countries, respectively.
In the UK, just over 230,000 cases of infection have now been confirmed.
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