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Paul Britton

These are the latest Covid-19 infection rates across all ten Greater Manchester boroughs

Latest figures reveal Covid-19 infection rates across Greater are continuing to fall.

They show Oldham now no longer has the highest rate of infection.

Rates in the town - and in Trafford - are falling quicker than in any other borough of Greater Manchester.

The rate is expressed as the number of new cases per 100,000 people.

The week-on-week infection rate is falling in all 10 Greater Manchester boroughs, the figures published on Saturday by Public Health England show.

Today marks the 12th day in a row rates have fallen in Greater Manchester.

Figures show 994 new cases were reported today - the first time it's been fewer than 1,000 since October 10.

The latest infection rates (MEN)

The infection rate in Greater Manchester is highest in Rochdale  and lowest in Trafford, where the rate is down by 31 per cent over seven days.

The latest infection rates for Greater Manchester are:

Rochdale - 471  -15 per cent

Oldham - 466  -30 per cent 

Bury 397  -25 per cent

Bolton 383  -19 per cent

Salford 378  -23 per cent

Wigan 366  -28 per cent

Tameside 344  -16 per cent

Manchester 323  -19 per cent

Stockport 279  -16 per cent

Trafford 256  -31 per cent

A Covid-19 testing centre in Manchester (Daily Mirror/Andy Stenning)

In the seven days to November 17, the latest figures available, the region-wide infection rate was 359.6 cases per 100,000 people.

That figure represents a fall of 22 per cent from the previous week.

The current rate nationally is 251.1 cases per 100,000 people.

That's a fall of five per cent in a week.

The rate in Oldham has fallen by 30 per cent.

It had been as high as 781.2 on November 2, when the borough was the worst-affected area in the country.

Market Street, Manchester (Manchester Evening News)

Elsewhere, Wigan's infection rate has fallen by 28 per cent.

Meanwhile, 11 more coronavirus deaths have have been recorded in Greater Manchester's hospitals, figures published today showed.

The latest 24-hour data brings the region's hospital death toll to 3,436.

Nationally a further 316 people who tested positive for the Coronavirus have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 38,112.

Reports suggest several families could be allowed to form a bubble and mix over Christmas.

But Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said that while infection rates were dropping in all 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester and other parts of the North West, the Government should not "let everything loose".

He told BBC Breakfast: "I would also say to the Government, don't just go towards Christmas and let everything loose.

"What you need to do is keep a steady approach that will keep the numbers going in the way they are currently going in the North West and in Greater Manchester, and that will relieve the pressures on the NHS come January."

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