outbreaks at halls of residence after students returned to university. But localised figures show that in heavily populated student areas such as Fallowfield, the number of cases is down 70 per cent week-on-week.
As the row over imposing Tier 3 lockdown restrictions on Greater Manchester rumbles on, at a press conference on Friday afternoon Boris Johnson said the situation in the region was 'grave and worsening every day'.
And the figures from the nine other boroughs appear to back that statement up.Every other area in Greater Manchester continues to see infection rates rise, but at a slower rate than in previous days and weeks.Bolton has recorded more than 1,000 cases in a week for the first time, while Salford's infection rate has gone.