On a regular afternoon in West Didsbury, people are walking with shopping bags in hand or sat drinking coffee outside one of the many small independent cafes.
It doesn't feel overly chaotic - despite being just two days before Christmas. Yet in this south Manchester suburb, Covid rates are continuing to surge by record amounts.
West Didsbury has recently been named as one of the country's 'Covid blackspots' - one of several areas of Greater Manchester that are some of the worst hit by Covid-19 in the entire country.
Here, more than 2,200 people in every 100,000 have coronavirus. The ‘hotspots’ are coloured black on an interactive government interactive map , which charts the number of positive coronavirus test results in every