In the last week 15 deaths have been reported, up from one in the previous seven days. Across Hampshire there is a similar picture with 146 deaths reported by the NHS, compared to 71 in the seven days before. These fatalities would have been people contracting the virus several weeks ago when the number of cases was rising fast. Forty-nine people have been reported to have died across Hampshire County Council area, so excluding Southampton and Portsmouth, in the last 24 hours. Winchester is now the only district in Hampshire, and one of only two in the south-east, along with West Berkshire, not coloured either purple or black on the official Government map. Its area is now a blue hole in a ring of purple. It means its infection rate is now below 400 per 100,000 people for the first time since the seven days to Christmas Eve.