A third of hospital beds across the region are now occupied by people with coronavirus, the region’s health chief has revealed.
And while Sir Richard Leese said that a ‘sterling’ effort to free up space in the NHS meant that 40pc of beds are still currently free, the number of cases is now rising ‘quite rapidly now’, meaning they would almost certainly also be filled in the next few weeks.
Speaking at the mayor’s weekly press conference on the pandemic, the Manchester council leader said as of yesterday 901 cases had been diagnosed across the region, although he said that would be 'an enormous underestimate' due to a lack of testing.