NEARLY every area in the South Lakes recorded less than three positive cases of Covid-19.

According to data released by Public Health England, coronavirus rates are continuing to fall in South Lakeland.

There was 15 new cases in the week ending March 25 which gives the area a rolling rate of 14.3 per 100,000,

It was three fewer cases compared to the previous week.

Seven–day rates are expressed per 100,000 population and are calculated by dividing the seven day count by the area population and multiplying by 100,000.

Hawkshead & Cartmel Fell was the only area in the South Lakes which recorded three new cases of Covid-19, giving the area rolling rate of 56.2 per 100,000.

For smaller areas with fewer than three cases, Public Health does not show data.

Kendal North & Burneside, Kendal South, Kendal Town & Greenside, Kendal East & Whinfell and Burton-in-Kendal all had fewer than three cases per area of Covid-19.

Similarly, Levens & Natland, Arnside, Milnthorpe & Holme and Sedbergh & Kirkby Lonsdale also recorded fewer than three cases of coronavirus in the week ending March 25.

Equally, Ulverston, Windermere South & Staveley, Windermere North, Ambleside & Langdales, Coniston, Broughton & Kirkby, Grange-over-Sands & Cartmel Peninsula, Coniston, Broughton & Kirkby, Sedbergh & Kirkby Lonsdale, Windermere North, Ambleside & Langdales all had less than three confirmed cases of Covid-19 over a seven-day period.

South Lakeland's neighbourhoods worst hit by the Covid-19 pandemic have been revealed in the first annual death toll of the virus.

In the 12 months from March last year, 257 people in South Lakeland died due to Covid-19, according to the ONS figures – a rate of 161 per 100,000 people.

The neighbourhoods with the highest number of deaths include: Grange and Cartmel Peninsula which had 47 deaths due to Covid-19, followed by Ulverston with 32 and Kendal South with 31.

The neighbourhoods with the fewest number of deaths include: Kendal North and Burneside and Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale who both recorded eight deaths, and Coniston, Broughton and Kirkby with nine.