YORK is now the only major English civil parish north of Herefordshire shaded yellow on a Public Health England Covid map.
The color indicates that for the week ending April 6, the City of York Council area had a rolling seven-day rate of just nine confirmed coronavirus cases per 100,000 population.
The number means York joins just a handful of local upper-class authorities in the south and falls in the lowest category on the PHE card of zero to nine cases.
This is also in stark contrast to a peak rate of 670 per 100,000 in York at the height of the January pandemic.
The rate in the North Yorkshire County Council area is also low at 24.6 per 100,000 population, while the rate for the East Riding of Yorkshire Council area is 33.1.
Areas in the west and south have much higher rates, for example 72.2 in Leeds, 78.2 in Bradford and 82.1 in Doncaster.