Centre for Cities – new Coronavirus tracker follows which large cities and towns have the most cases

Centre for Cities has launched a daily interactive Coronavirus tracker, using the latest data to follow which of England’s largest cities and towns have the most cases.

This will be updated daily around 17.30 or shortly after.

Key points from the first day of publication:

London has the highest number of cases, with more than 58 confirmed cases per 100,000 population, followed by Sheffield (52) and Slough (48).

Hull has the lowest number of cases per population, with around 3 confirmed cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

London and Birmingham have a high number of cases per 100,000 population, but that is not the case for every big city in the UK: Derby, Milton Keynes and Luton have a higher ratio than Liverpool or Manchester.

The ratio of cases confirmed in Sheffield has rapidly increased over the last few days, more rapidly than other cities of similar size.