Beacon Hill and the surrounding downtown neighborhoods are seeing relatively high Covid-19 rates and persistently low testing rates, despite the city as a whole coming down from the latest infection bump.

According to city data, Boston is on the mend from its May Covid surge, but many neighborhoods are still seeing elevated infection rates and low rates of testing. Beacon Hill and the surrounding area have consistently sat above the city’s average infection rate, and are now the second-highest zone in the city center behind the South End. The Fenway, which for weeks saw infection rates double and triple that of its neighbors, seems to have burned through its cases and is now below the city’s average.

Many neighborhoods are yet to fall back to their pre-surge rates. Beacon Hill and the surrounding neighborhoods are reporting 260 cases per 100,000 residents, slightly above the 250 it reported in March.

The South End’s rates have more than doubled, going from 128 cases per 100,000 residents in March to 285 today.

Covid rates don’t seem to be the citywide priority they once were, as the mayor’s office has shifted focus to heat issues and addressing the ongoing crisis at Mass and Cass. Despite the bump in infection rates, testing is still low and has been consistently decreasing for weeks. Three consecutive weeks of falling testing is supposed to trigger the city’s concern threshold, ostensibly the point when “citywide policy actions may be needed”, yet last week was its fourth consecutive drop.

A possible explanation for this blunted response is Boston’s low hospitalization rates. Covid related emergency room visits and bed occupancy in non-surge intensive care units have both been trending downward, despite these persistently high infection rates. Confirmed Covid-19 hospitalizations are sitting at 136 per day, well below the city’s concern threshold of 200 hospitalizations per day.

Data indicates that the most recent surge wasn’t unusual in how it affected different demographics. People in their twenties remained the most common covid patients, and non-white residents remain disproportionately affected by the virus. Women have slightly higher infection rates than men. The rolling infection rate since the start of the pandemic is 28,000 patients per 100,000 residents, just over one in four residents contracting the illness at one point or another.

This data comes courtesy of the Boston Public Health Commission, which collects and aggregates live data for the city. These numbers are current up through June 15, and more up-to-date information can be found online through the city’s website.