This week’s headlines, courtesy of Cambridgeshire County Council’s Public Health intelligence team.

• There have been 1,196 laboratory-confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Cambridgeshire – an increase of 74 since last week. That’s 183.6 per 100,000 population, still considerably less than the England average of 273.2. East Cambridgeshire still has the lowest rate in the county, with 113 confirmed cases – and has had the lowest rate in Cambridgeshire since the week beginning 2 March. (Of course this only relates to tested and confirmed cases – the real figure will be far higher).
• The cumulative rate of confirmed cases per 100,000 population in Huntingdonshire is still the highest in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, and higher than the East of England average.
• The trend in ‘all cause’ deaths is down overall and in every district in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough. Trends in Covid-19 deaths alone are also down, though the trend in Fenland and Huntingdonshire is flatter than elsewhere in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.
• 31 deaths related to Covid-19 occurred among Cambridgeshire and Peterborough residents in the week ending 22 May. 10 of these occurred in Fenland, nine in Huntingdonshire, and seven in Peterborough.
• Of all the districts in Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and South Cambridgeshire have had the highest number of care home outbreaks, at 34 and 33 homes respectively, but Cambridge has the highest proportion (73.3 per cent) of care homes reporting an outbreak. The overall percentage of care homes in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough reporting an outbreak is higher than the East of England average.
• The Care Quality Commission was notified of 309 deaths from all causes in Cambridgeshire care homes between 10 April and 29 May 2020, compared to 277 up to the end of the previous week. 99 of those deaths were Covid-19 related.