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Submitted by SFM Newsroom on
The Borough of Swale officially has the second highest Covid-19 infection rate in the country.
Swale recorded 928 cases of coronavirus, while Thanet (Kent's previous highest authority area) recorded only 725 positive cases between Sunday 8th November and Saturday 14th November.
This latest fugure takes the borough's infection rate from 296.5 per 100,000 to 637.7 per 100,000.
Submitted by SFM Newsroom on
New figures released by Public Health England (PHE) show that the Borough Of Swale has seen 90 new COVID-19 cases in a week - one in six of all positive tests recorded in Kent as a whole.
This recent outbreak has seen the infection rate jump to more than 200 in three areas on the Isle Of Sheppey, compared to a county average (Kent and Medway) of 49.4 per hundred thousand.
Five of the island's wards appear in the Top 6 of the county's hotspots:-
