Coronavirus infections are higher in 10 Sheffield neighbourhoods than before the December lockdown last year. Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images.Coronavirus infections are higher in 10 Sheffield neighbourhoods than before the December lockdown last year. Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images.
Coronavirus infections are higher in 10 Sheffield neighbourhoods than before the December lockdown last year. Photo by ADRIAN DENNIS/AFP via Getty Images.

10 areas in Sheffield where Covid infections are higher than December as Boris Johnson prepares to unveil a roadmap out of lockdown

There are 10 areas across Sheffield which currently have higher coronavirus infections than before lockdown as the Prime Minister is set to announce his plan to ease restrictions.

After almost seven long weeks of national lockdown, Boris Johnson is preparing to unveil a roadmap to open up the economy again.

Covid cases have plummeted across England since lockdown was imposed on 31 December, from 557.9 cases per 100,000 to 148.8 in the seven days to 11 February.

But there are still 467 neighbourhoods across the country where infection rates are higher than they were on 31 December, the day lockdown came into force – and 10 of them are in Sheffield.

Here are the areas where Covid cases in the seven days to 11 February were higher than in the last week of December.

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