CENTRAL Fife now has five wards in the “suppressed” category of infection rates, as the Kingdom increasingly gets the virus under control.

The Scottish Government’s neighbourhood map shows which council wards are worst hit by Covid-19 to a weekly average based on a population per 100,000 people.

For the week up to and including February 5, the most recent data available, there are no central Fife areas in the highest category of 400+ cases per 100,000 people.

There is one ward – Lochgelly West and Lumphinnans – however, in the second highest category with an infection rate of 200-399 per 100,000 people.

Thornton and Kinglassie, Hill of Beath and Kingseat, and Ballingry all feature in the third highest – 100-199 infections.

Kelty East, Lochgelly East, and Cowdenbeath North all have an infection rate of 50-99.

That leaves Lochore and Crosshill, Kelty West, Cowdenbeath South, Cardenden, and Crossgates and Halbeath in the bottom category having “suppressed” the virus.

Across the whole of Fife there is a seven day positivity rate of 4.1 per cent, less than half of what it was last month.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) outline that a positive percentage over five is “out of control”.