The two Sheffield areas with almost no new coronavirus cases as infection rate falls

The two neighbourhoods in the city, Batemoor and Jordanthorpe and Springvale and Steel Bank are almost free from coronavirus according to government data from the seven days to February 4 which is made up of positive coronavirus tests in hospitals and in the community.

Both areas had fewer than three new virus infections in the most recently recorded period – meaning there is insufficient data to calculate a rolling rate for each neighbourhood as cases are so low.

It comes as Covid-19 infections continue to fall across Sheffield with the city recording 1,049 new infections in the week to February 4, down by 22.3 percent from the week before.

The city had an average rate of 179.4 new virus cases per 100,000 people in the most recently recorded period – slightly under the country’s current average rate of infection as the impact of the third national lockdown begins to take hold.

Sheffield’s public health director Greg Fell urged people to continue to abide by coronavirus restrictions as while the infection rate is falling and hospitals are almost past the peak of the latest wave, the ‘room for manoeuvre remains pretty small’.

The health boss also revealed that the Kent variant of the virus, which emerged before Christmas last year, now accounts for 70 per cent of cases being detected in Sheffield and because it is more transmissible ‘our level of vigilance becomes even more important’.

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