Here are the Leeds neighbourhoods with the lowest Covid rates (Photo: James Hardisty)Here are the Leeds neighbourhoods with the lowest Covid rates (Photo: James Hardisty)
Here are the Leeds neighbourhoods with the lowest Covid rates (Photo: James Hardisty)

Covid in Leeds: The Leeds areas with the lowest Covid rates as booster jabs accelerated in 'Omicron emergency'

Boris Johnson has issued an appeal to members of the public to step forward to assist the Covid booster jab programme in a race to counter the new Omicron variant.

The Prime Minister said “tens of thousands” of volunteers were needed as the vaccination programme is ramped up to an unprecedented pace of delivery.

They range from stewards to organise and manage the queues to trained vaccinators to administer the jabs.

It follows the announcement on Sunday that every eligible adult in England is to be offered a top-up injection by the end of December, a month earlier than previously planned, while resources are being made available to the devolved nations to speed up delivery.

Three Omicron cases have so far been confirmed in Leeds, as well as a further six suspected cases - but the real number is likely to be far higher, as testing for Omicron is a lengthy process.

There were a total of 2,613 new Covid cases in the city in the seven days to December 8, the latest available Government figures.

That's an infection rate of 327.1 new cases per 100,000 people, up 0.9 per cent from the previous seven days.

Here, we reveal the Leeds areas with the lowest rates in the seven days to December 8. All images are for illustrative purposes only.