Leeds Coronavirus daily infection case rate falls slightly remaining stable

The Covid infection case rate in Leeds has fallen slightly as it remains stable for the city.
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The latest rate in Leeds was recorded on Thursday January 14 as 331.1 cases per 100,000 people.

The positivity rate was 11.8 per cent.

This is a fall in the rate from Wednesday which was recorded at 344.2 cases per 100,000 people.

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The city's infection rate on Wednesday was a rise from Tuesday however when the rate was recorded at 332.2 cases per 100,000 people.

For the three days prior to this, the case rate fell steadily for the first time since the third national lockdown began.The infection rate in Leeds is stable but the CEO of Leeds City Council, Tom Riordan is urging the people in Leeds to "keep doing the right things".

He tweeted on Thursday: "Leeds cases down today to 331.1 per 100k and positivity down too to 11.8%.

"Let’s keep doing the right things Leeds - stay at home if you can and please keep your distance."

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On Wednesday, Tom Riordan tweeted: "The Leeds case rate has gone up to 344.2 per 100k (from 332).

"We hope that this increase won’t be sustained, but on the day 1,564 UK deaths were reported it shows how much we need to keep our distance and stay at home if we can."

The proportion of the new Covid variant in Leeds is now one in five cases.

Virus mutations are common, but experts have said one of the variants discovered last year may be up to 70 per cent more transmissible.

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Epidemiologist Dr Tildesley added that although viruses mutate “all the time”, this usually results in “milder forms” emerging “in order to survive better”.

He told BBC Breakfast: “If you have a very transmissible virus that also has a very high mortality rate then actually – and this is not meant to be flippant at all – but that’s not very good for the survival of the virus in a sense, if it kills its host.”

He added that if a vaccine-resistant variant emerges, jabs can be modified within “weeks rather than months” to combat this.

Dr Tildesley said: “Over the longer term, it’s probably likely that we will get variants emerging where the vaccines won’t necessarily have the same effect.

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“And I will say that’s nothing to get massively panicked about – we do expect this, and this is what happens with flu all the time, that we have to develop a vaccine every year to protect against whatever virus strain is circulating.”

The number of Covid-19 infections across England is falling as a whole, with the reproductive rate – the R – below 1 in some regions, University of Cambridge researchers have said.

The Cambridge researchers said regions with a current R rate below 1 are Yorkshire and the Humber, the East of England, London, the South East, and West Midlands.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is due to release its own figures later, while Government scientists will release their own R rate, which refers to the number of people an infected person will pass the virus on to.

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