For completeness, please find an updated of the rate of new Covid-19 cases in England by region based on data here. Unfortunately the usable parts of this data is about a week in arrears, so the trends seen below will not be too much of a surprise to anyone that follows the UK situation closely.
With the exception of Yorkshire and the Humber which is fairly flat, most regions are seeing a reduction in the rate of new cases. The chart clearly shows how London was 7-10 days ahead of the rest of the country in terms of new cases and had the highest absolute peak of new cases at over 800 per day on average around April 3rd.
If we normalise the data by population numbers we get the chart below. From here was can see that the North East had the highest relative amounts of new cases for a 7 day period starting April 4th - this fits with earlier regional analyses on this blog. The North West appears to have a similar peak loading to London offset but a few days, but the curve here is declining more slowly than London.
The East Midlands, West Midlands and the Yorkshire and the Humber lines are flat to slow declining compared to the other regions, so it would be interesting to understand the causes behind this in more detail, since this may provide valuable insight in managing the spread of Covid-19 going forward.
And finally, a quick summary of key numbers for the last available week which shows the differences in some of the key metrics, notice the wide variations in weekly decline, new daily cases and peak daily cases.
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