concentrated in the Alexandra Park and Werneth areas, with 44 and 33 cases during that week. The borough teeters on the verge of government placing it into a full Leicester-style lockdown to try and put a stop to rising Covid-19 infections.Oldham currently has the second highest infection rate in the country.All three of the borough’s MPs, Debbie Abrahams, Jim McMahon and Angela Rayner, have written to health secretary Matt Hancock asking him to grant a further two week stay of execution before bringing in harsher restrictions.“If we find ourselves registering an increase, we must state our objection to the approach taken in other places where sweeping lockdowns have been brought in,” they write.“Like many places the borough of Oldham is.