Sunderland has second highest weekly case rate in the North East as council leaders are called for tier 3 talks
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The latest statistics show that the city recorded an infection rate of 321.9 per 100,000 people, which equals 894 confirmed cases.
This is the second highest of the seven North East local authority areas which make up the LA7 (Sunderland, South Tyneside, County Durham, Northumberland, Newcastle, Gateshead and North Tyneside).
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Hide AdThis week’s rate compares to a rate of 299.2 per 100,000 people the week before, which works out at 831 people who were given positive tests.
The figures place it in 40th position in a table of all council areas across England.
The figures, for the seven days to October 18, are based on tests carried out in laboratories, known as pillar one of the Government’s testing programme, and in the wider community, pillar two.
The rate is expressed as the number of new cases per 100,000 people.
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Hide AdData for the most recent four days (October 19-22) has been excluded as it is incomplete and does not reflect the true number of cases.
Here is the North East list in full.
From left to right, it reads: name of local authority; rate of new cases in the seven days to October 18; number (in brackets) of new cases recorded in the seven days to October 18; rate of new cases in the seven days to October 11; number (in brackets) of new cases recorded in the seven days to October 11.
Stockton-on-Tees 356.7 (704), 342.5 (676)
Middlesbrough 349.0 (492), 280.9 (396)
Hartlepool 348.1 (326), 273.3 (256)
County Durham 329.2 (1745), 338.1 (1792)
Sunderland 321.9 (894), 299.2 (831)
Newcastle upon Tyne 313.1 (948), 466.6 (1413)
Darlington 286.5 (306), 206.9 (221)
Redcar and Cleveland 280.7 (385), 210.7 (289)
Gateshead 258.8 (523), 255.4 (516)
South Tyneside 235.1 (355), 245.1 (370)
North Tyneside 210.7 (438), 251.5 (523)
Northumberland 175.5 (566), 175.5 (566)