The infection rate in Harlow continues to fall as the affect of the third national lockdown begins to become more apparent.
The town now has the seventeenth worst infection rate in the country, having recently been in the top five.
Between January 9 – 16, the latest available accurate data, there were 707 newly confirmed coronavirus infections – an infection rate of 821 new cases per 100,000 residents.
A week earlier the infection rate had stood above 1,300 after 1,149 new cases were confirmed.
Essex, once the worst affected county in England, has experienced a dramatic fall in newly recorded cases in most districts.
Castle Point is now the worst Essex district, with an infection rate of 819.9 after recording 741 cases.
Brentwood and Epping Forest, which at the start of the month had some of the highest rates of infection in Essex and England, have recorded rates of 403.8 and 524 respectively.
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