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Professor Jennifer Rogers, Vice President of the Royal Statistical Society, will work with ITV News as our new Covid statistician helping us understand the coronavirus numbers and what they mean to you.
During the week of September 26 to October 2, many UK cities with the highest number of Covid-19 cases were areas that are typically popular with students.
Where are the fastest growing areas of Covid cases for students?
A deeper analysis of the data in the cities of Exeter, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, and Sheffield shows that student areas are experiencing faster increases in Covid-19 cases than surrounding areas.
This means that students could be the driving force behind the increases in coronavirus cases seen in these cities.
What does the data show us about student Covid cases?
Comparing the most recent data on the number of cases in the week of September 26 to October 2 with the week 38 (September 14 to 20), we calculate the increase in cases in each area.
Exeter
In Exeter, the main university areas St James’s Park and Hoopern, Pennsylvania and the University, as well as Central Exeter, saw the number of coronavirus cases increase by more than 500%, while the rest of Exeter saw only marginal changes.
However, during the week of September 26 to October 2, these three areas accounted for more than 84% of all Covid cases.
Nottingham
The Nottingham areas with the highest increase in Covid cases were Lenton and Dunkirk, University Park, Lenton Abbey and Jubilee Campus, and Arboretum, Forest & Trent University.
These locations are the most popular places for Nottingham University and Nottingham Trent University students to stay while they study.
The areas saw a combined 1,445% increase in cases with the latest figures showing a total of 510 cases in seven days. Compare this to nearby Wollaton Park and Wollaton Vale, which together only saw 15 Covid cases during the same seven-day period.
Manchester
In Manchester, 11 of the top 12 geographic areas that had the largest increases in Covid cases were places that are extremely popular with students.
Fallowfield Central, which has a large number of Manchester University halls of residence, saw a greater increase in Covid-19 cases than anywhere else in Manchester.
There was an increase of 1,591%, going from 33 cases in week 38 to 558 cases in week September 26 to October 2. This area also had the highest number of Covid cases in England during this same 7-day period.
In comparison, in nearby Levenshulme Central, Covid-19 cases decreased by 33%, with a total of 22 cases from September 26 to October 2.
Leeds
Of the top six places with the fastest rise in Covid cases in Leeds, five of them were in areas that are popular with students, and in the last seven-day period, more than half of the Covid cases in Leeds they were in areas popular with students. .
Newcastle
In Newcastle, comparing week 38 to the seven-day period from September 26 to October 2, student areas saw Covid cases increase by 217%, compared to non-student areas which saw cases increase by a fifty%.
During this last seven-day period, areas popular with students accounted for 75% of all Covid-19 cases in Newcastle.
Liverpool
The place with the fastest increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in Liverpool was “Central & Islington”, an area popular with students.
Cases here increased by 577% and in all areas popular with students, Covid cases increased by 165%, compared to areas not popular with students, where cases increased by 115%.
The area that has seen by far the fastest rise in Covid-19 cases in England is Endcliffe and Ranmoor in Sheffield, home to two hallways of University of Sheffield residences (The Edge and The Ridge) and the community of Sheffield’s largest students.
Compared to week 38, the seven-day period from September 26 to October 2 saw a massive increase in Covid-19 cases of 6.175%.
Looking at these figures, it is suggested that Covid-19 cases are increasing faster among college students and areas that are more densely populated with students play a substantial role in increasing the number of cases in cities in general.
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