Areas of Basingstoke and Deane with highest Covid rates

In the week leading up to November 19, Test Valley recorded 232 cases, a fall of 11 from the week before, with a rolling rate of 131.4 cases per 100,000 people.

Basingstoke and Deane is also broken into smaller geographic areas, known as MSOAs, or Middle Layer Super Output Areas, which are smaller, postcode-linked areas that are used for a range of government statistics.

Breaking down the cases over the week up to November 19 by area, Kings Furlong, which encompasses parts of Worting Road and Winchester Road, has the lowest number of cases in the entirety of Basingstoke and Deane.

Daneshill and Little Basing had the next lowest rate at 60.1 per 100,000, with only five cases during the week. This is a significant decrease on the week before, dropping by over 58 per cent.

Chineham also had five cases, but a slightly higher infection rate of 65.2. Buckskin and Worting also had five cases, as did Kingsclere and Heath End and Viables.

The local area with the most cases in that seven day period was Popley, with 31 cases and a rate of 222.8 per 100,000 people. This rate was still, however, slightly below the English average of 230.3.

As of Tuesday, November 24, Test Valley had reported 2,265 positive cases of Covid-19.

Here’s the cases and rates over the week to November 19 broken down by each MSOA, with numbers first, and rates in brackets:

Popley – 31 (222.8)

Winklebury and Rooksdown – 17 (161.7)

Brighton Hill – 16 (221.5)

Hatch Warren – 16 (185.9)

South Wonston, Sutton Scotney and Micheldever – 14 (238.2)

Kempshott – 12 (169.5)

Houndmills and Oakridge – 12 (160.9)

Whitchurch & Ashmansworth - 10 (140.2)

Basingstoke Central, Black Dam and Eastrop – 10 (129.8)

Bramley, Sherfield and the Sherbornes – 10 (105.9)

Overton & North Waltham – 9 (131.8)

Old Basing and the Candovers – 8 (103.4)

East Oakley – 6 (110.4)

Kingsclere and Heath End – 5 (68.9)

Chineham – 5 (65.2)

Daneshill and Little Basing – 5 (60.1)

Viables – 5 (63.8)