Coronavirus infection rates have dropped by more than 20 per cent according to the latest week on week data, as they continue to fall across all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester.

However, hospitalisations have slightly increased as of the week ending April 3, with 801 patients admitted to Greater Manchester NHS hospitals with Covid-19.

This is an increase of 10 per cent on the week before. Trafford continues to have the highest coronavirus infection rate in Greater Manchester, with a rate of 595.6 cases per 100,000 people in the week ending April 3.

The lowest infection rate is in Oldham, where the rate is 372.0 cases per 100,000 people. READ MORE Nearly 3,000 Covid deaths added to UK death toll following data error In Greater Manchester as a whole, the infection rate is now 486.6 cases per 100,000 population.

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5 dead, more than a dozen hurt after spate of shootings across Philadelphia Thursday, Friday

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PHILADELPHIA - Authorities say at least three people were killed and at least a dozen others were injured in shootings across Philadelphia on Thursday.Six of the shootings happened within an hour span on Thursday afternoon, according to police. Starting around 2 p.m., officers in different parts of the city responded to a pair of double shootings and a triple shooting. Police said a young man was fatally shot in the head on the 400 block of Maton Street in South Philadelphia.

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Police: 6 shootings within 1 hour across Philadelphia kills 1, injures 9

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police are investigating six separate shootings, in the span of one hour, in which one person was killed and nine others were injured Thursday afternoon.According to officials, the first shooting happened in Kensington, near F and Lippincott Street Thursday afternoon, around 1:45. A woman is at Temple in stable condition.Within 20 minutes, another shooting happened in Belmont, where three people were shot on the 4000 block of Wallace Street. A 24-year-old man is in stable condition, while a 21-year-old man and an 18-year-old male are both in critical condition at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.Around 2:10 Thursday afternoon, a shooting was reported in South Philadelphia, on the 400 block of Manton Street.

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Coronavirus infection rates continue to plummet across Greater Manchester

Coronavirus infection rates continue to plummet in all 10 boroughs of Greater Manchester. A total of 8,479 people tested positive for covid across the region in the week which ended April 10.

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Art and health festival featuring 'menopause choir' is coming to Manchester'

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Fourth COVID vaccine dose gives 76% added protection against death

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Summerlike morning low of 68 degrees gives way to severe weather threat across Delaware Valley

PHILADELPHIA - If you woke up Thursday morning and thought it felt like summer, you wouldn't be wrong.The temperature at Philadelphia International Airport only dipped to 68 degrees early Thursday, and it had already warmed to 70 degrees by sunrise.Not only is this warmer than the average afternoon high for this time of year (64 degrees), but it's nearly on par with the average morning low in the middle of summer (70 degrees). (FOX Weather)The warmest low temperature ever recorded on April 14 is 62 degrees, which occurred in 2014.But even though that was topped by 6 degrees Thursday morning, the record might be safe because temperatures are expected to drop below 62 by midnight as a cold front pushes through the Delaware Valley later on Thursday.

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The national capital on Wednesday recorded 299 new coronavirus cases in a span of 24 hours – a rise of almost 50% since yesterday (202). Delhi showed a significant increase in new infections over the last week.

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