New coronavirus data shows a borough has overtaken Blackburn has the worst-hit. They show that Pendle is now at the top of the list of infection rates by local area in England.
Pendle and Blackburn with Darwen have both recorded rates of 78.2 cases per 100,000 people. But in Pendle, the rate has jumped from 40.2 in the seven days to July 28 to 78.2 in the seven days to August 4.
A total of 72 new cases have been recorded. In Blackburn with Darwen, the rate has fallen from 86.8 to 78.2, with 117 new cases.
Oldham is third, where the rate has risen from 59.5 to 66.6, with 158 new cases. In Leicester, where the country's first lockdown was brought in, the rare continues to fall, down from 60.1 to 53.9, with 191 new cases.
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