By Eight new coronavirus cases in Hull
There has been an increase of coronavirus cases in Hull, with eight people returning positive test results over the weekend.
Unfortunately, the number of new cases has been steadily increasing in Hull.
In the three days up to Friday 14 August, the city saw seven new cases.
As of this morning there were a further eight, meaning that there have been 15 new cases recorded in the city in just under one week.
In recent weeks, Hull has seen high profile cases emerge.
In one example, nine members of the Hull FC team, as well as three staff members, tested positive for coronavirus.
Several games for the Betfred Super League and the Coral Challenge Cup have been postponed as a result.
🧪 An update following yesterday’s COVID-19 tests:
Hull FC can confirm that nine players and three staff members have tested positive for COVID-19 – the remainder of the club’s players, coaches and backroom staff have returned negative results for a second time.
Full Update 👇
— Hull FC (@hullfcofficial) August 15, 2020
In another instance, several P&O Pride of Hull crew members also tested positive, resulting in around 23 others who had been exposed having to self-isolate.
Currently, anybody in the UK who experiences coronavirus symptoms is eligible to be tested.
However some, including former prime minister Tony Blair, have called for the Government to roll out mass testing.
He told BBC Radio 4:
“Now we’re telling people to go back into pubs, we’re incentivising, quite rightly for the purposes of getting the economy moving, to go and eat out. All of those things are risks.
“I think the way we’re doing the quarantine rules is wrong actually. I think you could cut that 14-day quarantine substantially if you recognise that whatever you do there is going to be a risk, you just have to minimise it.”
Since the beginning of the pandemic Hull has now had a total of 1,596 cases, a rate of 614.4 cases per 100,000 residents.
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