Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox The UK faces a 'pretty miserable winter' - but not because of the re-emergence of coronavirus, experts have predicted.
The government has been forced to delay its plans to lift all restrictions by four weeks due to rising numbers of positive cases.
And Greater Manchester continues to be among the places with the highest infection rates in the country. READ MORE: The Mancunians who were ready for the Covid-19 pandemic when the rest of the world barely knew what to do Hospital admissions due to Covid-19 have also started to rise, although they remain comparatively low compared to earlier in the pandemic.