COVID rates are falling faster in Winchester district than anywhere else in Hampshire, today's figures confirm. The district is now in the 'top' ten per cent of districts for infection rates with only 26 out of 315 in the UK doing better, and none in Hampshire. The Chronicle has reported the daily figures since last summer and was first to report the trend for declining infection rates around three weeks ago. All parts of the Winchester district are now below the England average as rates improve in Winchester East, Whiteley Knowle and Wickham, and Bishop's Waltham and Waltham Chase. But infection rates are climbing in