THE number of people in Warrington who tested positive for Covid is continuing to fall, latest data shows.

Figures for the seven days to January 31 have just been released for every local authority area in the UK.

The information is based on the number of people who tested positive for Covid 19 in a lab reported test plus positive rapid lateral flow tests that do not have a negative confirmatory lab-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test within 72 hours.

The figures also include possible reinfections.

Of the 377 areas across the country, 70 per cent have seen a fall, 29 per cent registered week-on-week rises and two are unchanged.

In Warrington, the infection rate of new cases per 100, 000 people in the week leading up to the end of January was 749.3.

The actual number of new cases was 1,569.

The infection rate of new cases per 100,000 people recorded in the seven days to January 24 was 934.1 and the number of new cases during this week was 1,956.

Data for the first four days of February has been excluded as it is incomplete and does not reflect the true number of cases.

This information has been calculated using data published on February 4 on the Government’s coronavirus dashboard.