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Although the number of Covid-19 cases in Sheffield is edging closer to 38,000 data suggests that transmission of the virus in the city has continued to slow down.<\/p>\n

There has now been a total of 37,739 cases recorded in Sheffield since the start of the pandemic last year with 1,114 deaths registered on January 29.<\/p>\n

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But in the week between January 31 to February 6, there were 999 cases recorded in the city, 302 less than the previous week.<\/p>\n

The seven-day case rate of people with at least one positive Covid-19 test result has continued to fall.<\/p>\n

Latest statistics from February 6 found there were 171 cases recorded per 100,000 people in the area, marginally lower than the average across England which stands at 179 cases per 100,000.<\/p>\n

That rate of infection is the lowest recorded in Sheffield since December 25.<\/p>\n

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Greg Fell, Director of Public Health for Sheffield, said he hoped that rates in the city would continue to fall despite the impact of the new variants of the disease.<\/p>\n

In his position statement for Sheffield City Council<\/a>, Fell said: \u201cWe all hope it will get down to the rates that we saw last spring or last summer at 20 [cases] per 100,000.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt may take a while to get there and the impact of the B117 variant or the Kent variant will put upward pressure on transmission.\u201d<\/p>\n

With one in five hospital beds in Sheffield currently treating someone with Covid-19, Fell expressed a warning to younger people about the dangers of the disease.<\/p>\n

Fell said: \u201cThere is a significant number of people aged between 45-65 in critical care so anyone who thinks this is only an illness of the very elderly is mistaken.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a disease that can affect younger people as well and infects younger people really quite seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although he expects some restrictions to remain for some time to come, Fell did exercise some positive caution over the coming summer.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI would expect summer coming to be a bit like last summer. I suspect there\u2019ll be a fairly low rate of circulating virus but nowhere near as low as it was last summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expect that those who are fully vaccinated, which would be a significant proportion of the population by then, may be enabled to do different things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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