Covid map shows increasing cases in Bradford

The team behind the website, from Imperial College London, define a hotspot as an area with more than 50 cases of Covid per 100,000 people.

Bradford is currently above that level and officials are battling to reduce the number of infections.

The site also provides estimates for each local authority in England, Scotland and Wales on whether cases are likely to be increasing or decreasing in the following week and the probability of R(t) being greater than 1 in the following week.

In the case of Bradford it paints a pretty bleak picture.

The district remains a hotspot and there are signs of increasing infections in the surrounding area.

Craven and Bradford are rated as 'likely increasing' by the end of the month. Leeds is rated as increasing.

Calderdale and Kirklees are rated as 'direction unclear' which means they could go either way.

Bradford has a probability rating of between 75 and 90 per cent that the reproduction number - the R rate - is going to be above one.

The reproduction number R indicates the number of people each infected person will pass the virus onto. An R larger than 1 indicates the outbreak is not under control and cases will continue to increase.

More worrying for the Government, the map predicts surging infection rates across the country by the end of this month.

The predictions assume no change in current interventions in a local authority beyond those already taken about a week before the end of observations.

An increase in cases can also be due to increased testing.

To search the map click here