A top civil servant in Leeds warned that the city is “boiling” from the national Covid-19 watchlist.
Leeds City Council Executive Director Tom Riordan said he didn’t believe the city was still at the stage where he would have to consider imposing local isolation measures such as those seen in Kirklees, Bradford and Calderdale in recent weeks, but warned that the incidence rate in the city was going up.
He said: “Our testing rates are very high right now, which is good because this is what we have to do to stay informed.
“We now have about 20, which is 25 or 26 of our seven-day daily allowance.
“We are in the spotlight of the national gold convention, but we have not yet reached the stage where we think we are likely to need travel restrictions as our neighboring councils had to do.”
The latest Leeds data has been released, showing that infection rates are on the rise.
The infection rate in Leeds in the seven days to 29 August was 31.4 cases per 100,000 people. This is 249 new cases.
