Lancashire's 4110 new Covid cases and the areas they were found
More than 4,100 new coronavirus have been confirmed across Lancashire as the UK marks another record breaking day.
Public Health England data for the latest 24-hour period shows Blackpool saw the county's biggest increase in Covid-19 cases with 447 as the Omicron variant takes hold.
Lancaster, Chorley, Blackburn with Darwen, Preston, South Ribble, West Lancs and Wyre also saw their tally's rise by at least 300.
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The number is up on the 4,005 announced yesterday across the county and the 3,415 on Tuesday.
Hyndburn saw the smallest daily increase with 162 positive tests, followed closely by neighbouring boroughs Ribble Valley with 166 and Rossendale with 169.
A further 189,213 lab-confirmed Covid-19 cases have been recorded in the UK as of 9am on Thursday, the Government said, another new record for daily reported cases.
The total includes reported figures for Wales covering a two-day period.
The Government said a further 332 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19.
The figure includes a backlog of hospital deaths reported by NHS England covering the period of December 24-29.
Lancashire's daily Covid cases by borough as of Thursday, December 30The data below includes the total number of cases, followed by the new daily figure (in brackets) and the infection rate for each area per 100,000 people for the last seven days. The vast majority of these cases are historical.
Blackburn with Darwen: 36,802 (+326) 951.8 cases per 100,000
Blackpool: 29,170 (+447) 870.1 cases per 100,000
Burnley: 20,834 (+253) 996.1 cases per 100,000
Chorley: 24,976 (+377) 1,409.1 cases per 100,000
Fylde: 15,339 (+253) 1,030.6 cases per 100,000
Hyndburn: 18,437 (+162) 966.3 cases per 100,000
Lancaster: 26,927 (+409) 1,257.8 cases per 100,000
Pendle: 19,498 (+215) 784.6 cases per 100,000
Preston: 31,771 (+335) 1,071. cases per 100,000
Ribble Valley: 13,643 (+166) 1,307.5 cases per 100,000
Rossendale: 15,970 (+169) 1,195.5 cases per 100,000
South Ribble: 23,533 (+359) 1,422.3 cases per 100,000
West Lancashire: 22,930 (+339) 1,296.1 cases per 100,000
Wyre: 21,355 (+300) 834.9 cases per 100,000
There were 11,898 Covid-19 patients in UK hospitals as of 8am on December 29, Government figures show.
This is the highest number of patients since March 2, when there were 12,139 in hospital.
This is up 44% week-on-week, when the figure on December 22 stood at 8,254 patients.
The second-wave peak was 39,254 on January 18.
The Government figures also show there were 1,152 Covid-19 hospital admissions in the UK on December 24.
This is up 34% week-on-week.
During the second wave of coronavirus, UK admissions peaked at 4,583 on January 12.
A total of 51,738,013 first doses of Covid-19 vaccine had been delivered in the UK by December 29, Government figures show.
This is a rise of 32,607 on the previous day.
Some 47,368,074 second doses have been delivered, an increase of 43,766.
A combined total of 33,527,184 booster and third doses have also been given, a day-on-day rise of 435,293.
Separate totals for booster and third doses are not available.
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