Here are the Leeds areas with the highest Covid rates  (Photo: Gov.uk)Here are the Leeds areas with the highest Covid rates  (Photo: Gov.uk)
Here are the Leeds areas with the highest Covid rates (Photo: Gov.uk)

The Leeds areas with the highest Covid rates as Boris Johnson says isolation could end this month

Coronavirus case numbers are falling but remain high across the UK, official figures show.

There were 579,638 cases in the week ending February 3, a 16 per cent fall on the number seen the week before.

It is still nearly double the number of cases the UK saw in the last week of November, before the Omicron wave hit.

The infection rate, the number of new cases per 100,000 people, is falling in Leeds - but remains high at 753.4. That's down 29.5 per cent from the previous week.

At neighbourhood level, Covid-19 case rates have been published for the week to February 3.

Here are the neighbourhoods in Leeds with the highest Covid rates during that period. All images are for illustrative purposes only.

The infection rate, the number of new cases per 100,000 people, is falling in Leeds - but remains high at 753.4. That's down 29.5 per cent from the previous week.