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Paul Britton

Latest coronavirus infection rates show all 10 Greater Manchester boroughs now above national average

Coronavirus infection rates in all 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester are now above the national average, latest figures revealed today.

Less than three weeks ago, on January 31, all were below the national average then.

The percentage change is reported week-on-week, not day-by-day.

The latest rates are for the week ending February 13 and the percentage change is comparing that figure with the rate for the previous seven days, week ending February 6.

Across Greater Manchester as whole the infection rates continue to fall, but the rate of decline has started to level off, the figures indicate.

Figures released by Public Health England today - the latest available - revealed a rise in cases in Tameside.

The latest figures (PHE)

Tameside had 437 cases in week ending Feb 13, which is 40 more than the previous week.

The borough has a lower figure than yesterday - Tuesday - but the week-on-week trend is still up.

Bury's rate increased by a single case.

Oldham and Wigan also has a higher rate than yesterday, but cases are still down when the figures are compared with the previous week.

The national average in England is 137.4 cases per 100,000 of the population.

Manchester and Trafford recorded the highest week-on-week fall in cases.

Bolton has the highest infection rate in Greater Manchester - at 236.1 cases per 100,000.

Manchester city centre (Getty Images)

Trafford - on 137.8 cases - has the lowest.

Of the 315 local areas in England, 16 (5 per cent) have seen a rise in case rates, 298 (95 per cent) have seen a fall and one is unchanged.

Corby in Northamptonshire has the highest rate in England, with 228 new cases recorded in the seven days to February 13 - the equivalent of 315.7 cases per 100,000 people.

That is down from 437.6 cases per 100,000 people in the seven days to February 6.

Middlesbrough has the second highest rate, down from 371.0 to 307.8, with 434 new cases.

St Helens in Merseyside is in third place, down from 352.2 to 283.5, with 512 new cases.

Meanwhile, figures released today showed a further 50 people have died in Greater Manchester's hospitals after testing positive for coronavirus.

It brings the region's coronavirus hospital death toll to 5,430.

Nationally, a further 522 people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in hospital in England, bringing the total number of confirmed deaths reported in hospitals to 80,115, NHS England said.

The Government said a further 738 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Wednesday - the lowest Wednesday rise this rise.

It brings the UK total to 118,933.

As of 9am on Wednesday, there had been a further 12,718 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.

It brings the total in the UK to 4,071,185.

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