Wigan still has the lowest rate of infection in Greater Manchester with 7.3 cases of Covid-19 per 100,000 people, although it has marginally increased from the week before.
The number of positive cases in the borough last reached double figures in the last week of May, when 23 were reported in Pemberton South.Since then the most cases reported in any single ward is six.This has prompted James Grundy, the MP for Leigh, and other Conservative politicians to call on the government to ease lockdown restrictions in Greater Manchester boroughs with lower infection rates.Earlier this week the region’s mayor Andy Burnham said that it would be ‘impossible’ to treat Wigan differently as the virus is ‘endemic’ in every borough.It was also pointed out.