Almost 14,000 people had Covid-19 in the North East in the week ending March 23.
The latest Government figures show that the rate of cases of the virus in our area has continued to rise throughout March, even as we approach the end of mass-testing on April 1.
Though the UK rate has close to levelled off at around 900 cases per 100,000, the North East has seen substantial rises continue and the number of people in hospital with Covid continues to tick up, too. There were 2,152 people who had tested positive on the wards across the North East and Yorkshire on March 25.
