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Several areas were added to the coronavirus watch list on Friday as infection rates for the disease vary across the country.
Leeds, Middlesbrough, Corby, Kettering and South Tyneside were added to the list, which means that local restrictions could be imposed if cases continue to increase.
It comes as some areas that were previously subjected to local lockdown measures, including parts of Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire, will relax you next week.
Here we take a look at five charts that tell the story of how coronavirus it is affecting different parts of the UK.
The R number it is a measure of how many people on average each infected person transmits the virus.
The latest government data shows how the number varies in different parts of the UK.
While England has an estimated R number of between 0.9 and 1.0, Wales has an estimated R number of 0.5 and 0.9.
Scotland’s R number is estimated to be between 0.9 and 1.4.
The number could reach 1.6 in Northern Ireland.
the COVID-19 The infection rate varies between different local authorities in the UK.
Bradford had one of the highest infection rates in the country after 285 cases were recorded there in the week ending Aug. 30.
This means that the city of West Yorkshire had 53.1 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
South Tyneside, with 70 cases in the last week, also has one of the highest rates at 46.6 cases per 100,000 people.
Kent had 84 cases in the week through Aug. 30, but has a much lower rate of 5.4 cases per 100,000 people.
Public Health England (PHE) has data for England’s “watch list areas”, which are the local authorities where the number of cases is most concerning.
Restrictions have been re-imposed in parts of the country where the number of cases is too high.
Parts of Greater Manchester, Lancashire and West Yorkshire will have their local lockdown restrictions relaxed next week after cases in the areas declined.
Leeds, Middlesbrough, Corby, Kettering and South Tyneside were added to the government’s coronavirus watch list on Friday after cases spiked.
Leeds averaged 30.5 cases per 100,000 people in the week through Aug. 30. The figure was a dramatic increase from 17.5 cases per 100,000 people registered there on August 23.
The late August figure was still less than half the number of cases as in April.
There were 66 cases per 100,000 people in Leeds in the week ending April 26.
The date was about a month after the nationwide lockdown measures were imposed.
The PHE data also shows how the weekly coronavirus infection rate varies in Leeds.
The highest number of cases was recorded in Chapel Allerton South and Chapeltown, where there were 17 cases in the week through Aug. 30. This equates to 1.7 cases per 1,000 people.
There were 10 new cases in New Pudsey that week. This is equivalent to 1.5 cases per 1,000 people.
However, the data map shows that much of the city had no cases or fewer than two in the week through Aug. 30.
