The Bradford areas with the highest Covid-19 infection rates

The number of infections in the district has continued to increase in recent days, with Bradford’s infection rate at its highest ever number.

There were 6,499 new cases recorded in the last seven days of 2021 – the most recent accurate figures – an increase of 90.8 per cent from a week earlier.

The infection rate in Bradford stands at 1,198.8 cases per 100,000 people, meaning more than one in 83 people in the district have had Covid-19 in the past week.

Bradford has the lowest infection rate in Yorkshire and the Humber but it is still the highest the district has seen – and in some areas the number is even higher.

When the highly transmissible Omicron variant hit, the Government had to update its colour-coded map of Covid cases with an even darker shade of purple for areas with an infection rate above 1,600 cases per 100,000 people.

The darkest shade of purple shows the areas with the worst Covid rates. Pic: UK Gov

There are now 16 areas in Bradford which had turned this deep shade of purple as case numbers continue to spiral as Omicron spreads.

In every area at least one in 62 people have Covid right now, while in the worst hit area, this is down to one in 43 people.

These are the Bradford district areas with the worst Covid-19 infection rates:

• Thackley & Esholt – 2,292.8 infections per 100,000 people
• Thornton – 1,919.8
• Steeton & Silsden – 1,910.5
• Queensbury – 1,905.4
• Baildon North – 1,882.9
• Eccleshill – 1,811.7
• Low Moor – 1,805.7
• Haworth & Oxenhope – 1,798.6
• Oakworth & Laycock – 1,735
• Baildon South – 1,680.3
• Saltaire & Baildon West – 1,670.5
• Wyke – 1,659.7
• Haigh Fold – 1,657.9
• Cottingley, Harden & Wilsden – 1,651.3
• Buttershaw – 1,646.9
• Idle – 1,641.6

These are the parts of the surrounding areas which also have the highest Covid-19 infection rates:

• Skipton South – 1,805.5; Skipton Town & East – 1,621.8.
• Heckmondwike Town, Norristhorpe & Roberttown – 2,543.6; Birstall – 2,118.4; Cleckheaton – 2,067.4; Gomersal – 2,006.6; Birkenshaw – 1,997.3; Liversedge, Littletown & Millbridge – 1,751.9.
• Farsley South, Stanningley & Pudsey North West – 2,303.5; Horsforth South & Rawdon – 2,161.9; Pudsey South East – 2,118.4; Otley North – 2,047.7; Yeadon East – 2,019.8; Pudsey North East – 1,999.7; Pudsey South West – 1,919.6; Drighlington & Gildersome West – 1,915; Yeadon West – 1,887.9; Yeadon South – 1,867.3; Calverley & Farsley North – 1,759; Guiseley East & South – 1,669.4.
• Hipperholme – 2,254.7; Northowram & Shelf – 2,183.2; Rastrick East – 2,038.7; Rastrick West – 2,038; Illingworth & Ogden – 1,924; Brighouse – 1,843.4; Clifton & Bailiff Bridge – 1,781.1.