The week-on-week coronavirus infection rate for Greater Manchester has fallen for the first time since before Christmas.
Figures released today (Saturday) by Public Health England revealed there were 410.9 positive tests in Greater Manchester for every 100,000 people in the week ending January 12, which was the first full week of the national lockdown.
The rate was 2.3 per cent down compared to the infection rate for the previous week (420.5).
The last time the week-on-week infection rate figure for Greater Manchester fell was December 13.
The picture across the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester was mixed, with half recording falls and the rest showing modest increases.
The biggest fall was in Oldham which registered 329 cases for every 100,000 people in the population, a drop of 15 per cent compared to the previous week.
There were smaller reductions in four other boroughs.
Wigan registered 430.2 positive cases for every 100,000 people, down seven per cent, while there were 427.6 in Trafford, a six per cent fall.
Stockport saw 402.5 positive coronavirus cases for every 100,000 people, a fall of seven per cent, while there was an eight per cent drop in Rochdale, which had an infection rate of 373.2.
There were modest increases week-on-week in the five other boroughs.
Manchester had the highest figure in Greater Manchester, with an infection rate of 457.4 which was up three per cent compared to the week before.
The rate rose one per cent in Bury to 438.2 cases for every 100,000 people while Salford saw it's infection rate rise five per cent to 432.7.
Bolton posted an infection rate of 379.8, a rise of six per cent, while there was a rise of one per cent in Tameside, which had an infection rate of 376.6.
There was a significant 18 per cent reduction in the infection rate across England as a whole but at 536.3 the rate remains higher than any borough in Greater Manchester
