These are the six areas of Greater Manchester that are some of the worst hit by Covid-19 in the country. The ‘hotspots’ are coloured black on the government’s interactive map, which charts the number of positive coronavirus test results in every neighbourhood.
It shows the number of infections per area, broken down into neighbourhoods containing roughly 7,000 people. READ MORE:Drink driver, 23, tried to dodge ban by claiming kerb she crashed her Mercedes into was 'too high' The number of new cases is then used to calculate the infection rate per 100,000 people.
In the seven days leading to December 16, the latest data available, Busk, in Oldham and Broughton Park, Salford, recorded the lowest infection rates in the region.