As ever, those with the highest populations feature near the top of the list. Here is the more meaningful list, showing cases per 100,000 population courtesy of https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-uk-tracker-how-many-cases-are-in-your-area-updated-daily-11956258

1. Brent: 266.0
2. Southwark: 250.3
3. Lambeth: 235.0
4. Harrow: 219.5
5. Croydon: 211.0
6. Lewisham: 203.3
7. Merton: 202.2
8. Barnet: 200.9
9. Kensington and Chelsea: 192.7
10. Wandsworth: 191.4
11. Cumbria: 187.6
12. Bromley: 187.3
13. Newham: 182.4
14. Sheffield: 175.1
15. Ealing: 172.2
16. St. Helens: 170.0
17. Hammersmith and Fulham: 168.8
18. Westminster: 167.6
19. Waltham Forest: 167.3
20. Sutton: 158.4

Again, London having a clean sweep of the Top 10, and 17 of the Top 20. Cumbria is an odd one, I wonder why that's such a hotspot?

Stunningly brilliant Horizon on BBC 2 tonight, just finished. A must watch to understand almost every aspect. Not all doom and gloom but realistic about the prospects ahead. The clear message from the Scientists is it is not a race against each other it is a world collaboration in a race to stop the virus.

The scientists are absolutely brilliant and working themselves into the ground. About time there was a clap for scientists in my opinion.

Wonder if we'll accept them?

Fighting #COVIDー19 together: Germany's Armed Forces will provide Britain 🇬🇧 with 60 ventilators to help patients suffering from #corona. European solidarity is key, especially in these very difficult times. pic.twitter.com/VZ6J9KERcF

— Germany in the EU (@GermanyintheEU) April 9, 2020

It will be a good test of whether 'ideology irrespective of outcome' is still driving government thinking or whether something more rational has taken over.

Hopefully Boris's close encounter with Covid-19 might have sobered up his approach.

The NHS quite possibly saved my own life too in the summer of 2007 when I became seriously ill with IBD. They were fantastic to me then and have been throughout the last 13 years through the ongoing treatment I receive for this condition.

Sure, the NHS is not perfect but then no organisation, be it in the public or private sector is regardless of its size. No-one will ever hear me say a bad word about it, that's for sure.

Hope certain people watched Newsnight tonight. Backed up what I said earlier about non Covid deaths going up

Emergency care of course is available but people are reluctant to go to hospital for strokes and heart attacks and will ignore possibly cancerous lumps 

So has the penny dropped with the Daily Mail? #coronavirus https://t.co/mbOqLD5JXe

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) April 9, 2020

But this is not due to the restrictions on movement; it’s due to the number of Covid-19 cases. These have climbed because the restrictions didn’t come in soon enough and will soon be declining precisely because of the restrictions.

Millitary based anywhere around there? Only other reason I could think of is a lot of cases associated with ship yard Barrow in furness?

 LLTNP 105m asl 

Older population and more people being tested I believe. 

Cumbria must have one of the eldest population demographics in the UK, certainly in England.