Geographical divideLatest Coronavirus Modelling: A North-South Divide in the U.K.

Published 14 May 2020

A Coronavirus ‘north-south divide’ has emerged across England, according to the latest modelling by scientists at Public Health England. Sarah Knapton writes in The Telegraph that, overall, around one in 5 Londoners has been infected by the virus since the epidemic began, compared with 14 per cent of people in the North West, 11 per cent in the Midlands, the North East and Yorkshire, 10 per cent in the East of England and eight per cent in the south east. The lowest region for infections is the South West where just 5 per cent of people are believed to have been infected, although that still amounts to 265,000 cases.