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Health chiefs have warned that Covid infections in the North East are on the rise again – just weeks before testing sites across the region shut down.
Mark McGowan's controversial call to keep Western Australia closed off to the rest of the country will result in more Covid-19 deaths, a new study claims.
BBC News Published image captionThe spike in cases is the greatest since an outbreak among returning students last October Newcastle is now the biggest Covid hotspot in England, the city's public health director has said. It comes as provisional data released by the city council on 2 July showed there were 613 new weekly cases per 100,000 people. Official government figures up to 27 June have the city's infection rate as the second highest in England, behind the North West. But Prof Eugene Milne says the latest figures now place it as the highest. The government's website states that Newcastl...
How Newcastle went from Covid vaccine 'trailblazer' to lagging far behind on jab rollout Just 56% of adults in Newcastle have been given their first dose of a vaccine, far behind all of the city's North East neighbours and the national average 12:00, 5 JUN 2021 Get the latest North East news and updates delivered straight to your inbox Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have ...
MORE than half of all Covid cases in the North-East are from the now dominant Indian or Delta strain, a public health boss has revealed.