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Paywall link to the Torygraph:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...aign=DM1376627

Fifty-two areas of England have had no cases of Covid in the over-70s during the past week, analysis reveals.

Accounting for a sixth of local authorities, the boroughs are in places as varied as Burnley, Stafford and Southwark.

However, the preponderance are in the east and southeast of England, which were hit hardest by the more infectious so-called Kent variant this winter.

Public health officials have credited the transformation to the success of the vaccine campaign and high adherence to lockdown measures.

Rother, a local authority area of East Sussex comprising Camber Sands and Battle, has England’s fifth-highest overall death rate from Covid-19, with nearly all of its 331 deaths occurring in the second wave.

But 13 weeks after the January peak of infections it is now one of the areas that has seen no cases among over-70s in the past week.