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Coronavirus infection rates were still rising in only 12 local authorities in England despite being in a national lockdown for a month, new figures show.

All but one are in the North or Midlands, and half saw an increase of about only three to six points. Only four per cent of 315 local areas saw a rise in case rates in the seven days to February 7.

Rutland in the East Midlands recorded the biggest increase and had the country's highest seven-day rate of new confirmed cases.

The county's rate was 465.9 cases per 100,000 people in the seven days to February 7, up from 230.4 on the previous week, and it has been linked to an outbreak at a prison.

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