The rates tended to kick off just after the Euros football final – our three highest days were three-to-five days after that final, so I think our momentum was kind of picking up then and that event just supercharged it up to the unfortunate position we found ourselves in.
But what we have seen over the last week is our rates have more than halved, and so even though everyone else’s rates are coming down as well, our rates seem to be coming down very quickly.
So I think areas like Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, and places you’ve seen in the north-west and further north in the north-east, are more susceptible to Covid because of the types of jobs that people do, the inability to work from home – Middlesbrough was cited in the ONS survey of being in the bottom 10 of areas where people are able to work from home.