Covid-19 infection rates in Bolton have now dropped to below the 200 mark, latest figures revealed today.
The data, published by Public Health England, revealed only Manchester and Trafford were showing week-on-week rises in infections in Greater Manchester.
In Manchester tonight, the University of Manchester confirmed more than 200 students and staff have tested positive for coronavirus in the past ten days.
Bosses admitted the figures were 'high' and a 'serious concern'.
It follows an outbreak at two Manchester Metropolitan University halls of residence.
Bolton is now the only borough in Greater Manchester where the rate of infection is now said to be falling.
The figures - for the seven days up to September 28 - were released after local lockdown rules were extended to more of the north of England.
Lockdown measures in Bolton, however, were also aligned with the rest of Greater Manchester, meaning pubs and restaurants in the town can now reopen.
The national 10pm curfew would still apply.
The rate is expressed as the number of new cases per 100,000 people.
Bolton's figure is now 190.
It represents a 19 per cent week-on-week decrease.
Manchester's stands at 259 cases per 100,000 people.
The latest infection rates for Greater Manchester are:
Manchester - 259
Bolton - 190
Bury - 173
Oldham - 163
Rochdale - 163
Salford - 160
Tameside - 148
Wigan - 141
Trafford -122
Stockport - 90
Burnley has the highest rate in England, with 302 new cases recorded in the seven days to September 28 - the equivalent of 339.6 cases per 100,000 people.
This is up sharply from 219.3 per 100,000 in the seven days to September 21.
Meanwhile, five more people have died in hospital here after testing positive for coronavirus in Greater Manchester.
The latest NHS figures show that the region's hospital death toll has now reached 2,282.
Two more deaths were recorded at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust - the organisation in charge of the city's main hospitals. Another life was lost further north by Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust reported another death each.
As of 9am this morning, there had been a further 6,914 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.
It brings the total number of cases in the UK to 460,178.
The government also said a further 59 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Thursday.
The figure brings the UK death total to 42,202.
Separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies show there have now been nearly 57,900 deaths registered in the UK where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.
