The latest figures, which cover the week up to April 16, show that Eastham, West Kirby and Thurstaston, Moreton West and Saughall Massie, Upton, Claughton, Oxton, and Wallasey, all registered zero cases.

These areas account for seven of Wirral's 22 council wards.

Of the remaining 15, just three recorded five or more COVID-19 infections.

These were Bidston and St James, Rock Ferry, and Pensby and Thingwall.

In the rest of the borough, each ward recorded between one and four cases.

There was more good news in the ward-by-ward figures, which came in the form of the positivity rate.

This is the percentage of tests which return a positive result.

In the weekly figures, Wirral's rate was 0.4%, the lowest recorded in the borough since the ward-by-ward figures began to be published last August.

In the most recent figures for Wirral as a whole, which cover the week up to April 18, a new pattern is emerging.

There were just 34 cases in the borough at a rate of 10 per 100,000, but that is a relatively small decline on the figures for the previous week.

In the seven days up to April 11, there were 37 infections, just three more, at a rate of 11 per 100,000, very similar to the current rate.

In recent months, cases have consistently fallen at considerable pace, but a far smaller rate of decline appears to be the current trend.

However, the figures are continuing to fall to increasingly low levels.

This should be viewed as a positive, especially given the most recent relaxation of the rules on April 12, which allowed non-essential retail and outdoor hospitality to reopen, albeit for outdoor service only.

Elsewhere in the Liverpool City Region, cases went down in most areas, but not all.

On the same week-by-week comparison, Knowsley's rate is now 18 per 100,000, down from 22 last week.

St Helens saw a significant fall in its rate, from 27 to 14, while Sefton's rate was down from 21 to 18.

Halton also recorded a decline in its infection rate, from 19 last week to 13 this time around.

However, Liverpool's rate has risen, albeit only slightly, from 16 to 17.