Tracking coronavirus in the Anglia region - the latest infection rate in your area
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More than 60,000 tested positive for coronavirus in the Anglia region in the latest weekly figures from Public Health England.
The NHS also reported a further 124 patients had died in the region's hospitals - the second highest daily figure of the pandemic and the highest since the peak of 129 on 9 April 2020.
There has however been a fall in the R rate in the East of England and it is now estimated to be lower than other parts of England.
Th figure for the East of England is now between 1.1 and 1.3 down from 1.2 to 1.5 when the figures were last published before Christmas.
The figure for the UK is 1.0 to 1.4 with a daily rise in cases of up to 6%.
The R number is the rate at which the virus reproduces and spreads around a population. If the number is above 1 it mean the pandemic is still increasing. In the East of England it means for every 10 people with coronavirus, they will go on to infect between 11 and 13 others so cases will continue to rise.
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The overall infection rate in the region was 831.5 cases per 100,000 people in the week to Monday 4 January. That was an increase from 565 the week before.
The number of confirmed cases in the region is still increasing - it rose by 19,479 cases or 47% between the week ending 4 January and the previous week.
The highest infection rate in the Anglia region is still in Essex where the county as a whole had 1,244 cases per 100,000. The lowest county rate was in Norfolk and Suffolk with 532 cases per 100,000.
Overall, there are now more patients being treated for Covid-19 in hospitals in the NHS East of England region than during the first wave of the pandemic in spring last year.
There were 3,802 coronavirus patients in the region's hospitals on Wednesday 6 January - over 2,000 more than at the highest number recorded during April.
The latest weekly coronavirus survey by the Office of National Statistics, which sends tests to a representative sample of people across the country to track the spread of the virus among those who may not being displaying symptoms, estimates that 1 in 45 people in the East of England were infected at the start of 2021.
That was an increase from 1 in 55 people the week before and represents around 128,000 infections across the region.
Weekly total of coronavirus cases in each county in the Anglia region in the week to 4 January
Bedfordshire - 5,718 cases - up 53% compared with the previous week
Cambridgeshire - 4,594 cases - up 69%
Essex - 22,978 cases - up 36%
Hertfordshire - 10,630 cases - up 32%
Milton Keynes - 2,707 cases - up 33%
Norfolk - 4,828 cases - up 69%
Northamptonshire - 5,073 cases - up 96%
Rutland - 114 cases - up 54%
Suffolk - 4,049 cases - up 84%
Bedfordshire is the three unitary authorities of Bedford, Central Bedfordshire and Luton. Essex includes Southend and Thurrock and Cambridgeshire includes Peterborough