How the UK [England] government locks down cities , especially severe level 3 [very high]
City or town Population Total confirmed cases in the past week per 100,000 population Total cumulative confirmed cases per 100,000 population [the graphs showing the trends are provided]
Liverpool 644,385 590 3105
Blackburn 148,942 509 2987
Burnley 179,932 465 2807
Nottm 677,617 459 1895
Wigan 326,088 438 2148
Manch'r 2,486,481 380 2461
Barnsley 245,199 376 1825
Sheffield 847,177 365 2112
Leeds 789,194 358 2078
Bradford 537,173 347 2608
Preston 369,166 320 1951
Warr'ton 209,547 319 2068
Sunderld 277,417 305 2036
Mid'br o 474,476 285 1569
York 209,893 282 1321
Blackpool 219,075 279 1639
Doncaster 310,542 278 1420
Wakefield 345,038 267 1459
Birkenhd 323,235 257 1993
Hudd'dls 438,727 252 1692
Newcastle 858,954 241 1943
Leicester 512,695 207 2173
Mansfield 235,992 191 950
Exeter 130,428 179 1168
Birm''ham 2,549,673 179 1345
Coventry 366,785 175 1080
Bristol 746,049 150 700
Stoke 385,323 150 1148
Derby 257,174 142 1014
Slough 149,112 136 965
source -
https://www.centreforcities.org/coronavirus/ using data from Public Health England
There is no information about how many people are being tested per head of population, their ages, and any correlation between the various testing regimes - e.g. number of PcR cycles - between cities. [size=140[ It's all meaningless.[/size]
Cambridge in particular experienced a significant increase in the number of cases compared to last week (+52 per cent).
- Perhaps the high proportion of students has influence the results, i.e. a greater proportion of the city volunteering or being coerced into testing to produce the
CASES
Once the public health crisis has ended, policymakers must develop a long-term response which recognises that the economic damage done by Coronavirus will be felt differently across the country.
Without a place-focussed economic response, the geographic inequalities that we saw before the Coronavirus will become even more entrenched, and the Prime Minister’s mission to level up the country will even harder to achieve.
Centre for Cities will be working on this in the future.