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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
Helen Johnson & Paul Gallagher

Latest Greater Manchester coronavirus infection rates as our overall figures go down for first time since August

Greater Manchester's overall coronavirus infection rate has fallen for the first time since August.

Rates in the region as a whole have gone down slightly week-on-week for the first time in three months.

Rates dipped by 0.9 per cent in the week up to November 1.

There has been a clear levelling out in rates across Greater Manchester since Tier 3 started on 23 September.

However, there are signs that it may nudge back upwards in the next few days, with 2,402 cases added today, which is one of the highest daily increases seen so far.

Oldham now has what is thought to be the highest infection rate in the country, recording a rate of 737.2 cases per 100,000 people in the week to November 1.

It comes on the first day England entered a second national lockdown.

From midnight people were asked to stay at home where possible to curb the spread of coronavirus.

Earlier today Greater Manchester's hospitals recorded the fourth biggest increase in Covid-19 related deaths since the start of the pandemic.

Sixty-two deaths have been confirmed by Greater Manchester's hospitals, bringing the region's death toll to 2,873.

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