Is lockdown in Milton Keynes working? Here are the neighbourhoods where Covid infections are falling the fastest

The Citizen has compared the number of Covid cases seen in each postcode area then to the number recorded today.

And our research shows every area has seen a pleasing decrease, with many demonstrating quite a dramatic drop.

At the start of lockdown, two districts - Shenley Wood and Grange Farm and Broughton, Middleton and Kents Hill were recording cases by the hundred. Both these areas house care homes for the elderly, and their figures have always been high.

But both have now shown significant drops, with Broughton, Middleton and Kents Hill going from 217 cases to 94.

In some places such as Newport Pagnell, Stony Stratford, Bletchley Olney, Bradwell Common and Westcroft, cases have more than halved.

The smallest decreases have been in Bletchley South, which had 82 cases on January 5 and 72 today, and Oldbrook and Coffee Hall, where there were 53 cases three weeks ago and 51 today.

The first day of lockdown saw a record 494 people test positive for Covid-19 in Milton Keynes. The infection rate was spiralling so rapidly that the city had been declared a Major Incident area the day before Boris Johnson made his lockdown announcment.

At that time MK's infection rate - the number of cases per 100,000 population - was 893.3. The following week it peaked to over 1,000, but then slowly the figures started to stabilise.

Today our case rate stands at 470.6 cases per 100,000 of the population. This is still higher than the rate for England, which today is 386.8 cases per 100,000 people.

Sadly, Covid-linked deaths have not reduced. In fact, during lockdown they have risen to more than 30 a week, bringing the current total to 375 since the start of the pandemic.

These are all people who have died within 28 days of receiving a positive Covid test, so many would have caught the virus before lockdown began or at the start of lockdown. It is hoped deaths will soon start to decrease alongside the case rates.

Here we reveal the case numbers for each postcode area in MK. The figure is the number of cases in the week ending January 5. The second is the number of cases in the seven day period ending January 22. These are the government's most recent figures.

Newton Longville & Great Horwood - 23 down to 6

Furzton - 80 down to 34

Stacey Bushes & Fullers Slade - 55 down to 29

Walnut Tree & Tilbrook - 45 down to 26

Linford Wood - 63 down to 40

Bradwell Village - 54 down to 29

Newport Pagnell North - 61 down to 26

Bletchley North West - 79 down to 48

Willen & Downhead Park - 57 down to 25

Newport Pagnell South - 61 down to 27

Bradwell Common - 62 down to 28

Olney & Lavendon - 30 down to 19

Bletchley East - 97 down to 44

Bletchley West - 59 down to 33

Central Milton Keynes & Newlands - 84 down to 53

Hanslope, Castlethorpe & Sherington - 59 down to 21

Two Mile Ash - 65 down to 24

Great Linford & Giffard Park - 63 down to 35

Westcroft & Shenley Brook End - 102 down to 39

Oldbrook & Coffee Hall - 53 down to 51

Eaglestone & Fishermead - 77 down to 54

Tattenhoe & Emerson Valley - 75 down to 54

Woughton & Woolstone - 70 down to 37

Denbigh - 60 down to 48

Far Bletchley - 76 down to 43

Stony Stratford & Old Wolverton - 60 down to 30

Bletchley South - 82 down to 72

Shenley Wood & Grange Farm - 143 down to 85

Broughton, Middleton & Kents Hill - 217 down to 94

Loughton - 59 cases down to 26

Wolverton and New Bradwell - 59 cases down to 31

Stantonbury and Bradville - 78 down to 34