In the past three weeks, Oldham has been teetering on the edge of being cast into a full local lockdown as its numbers of coronavirus cases began to surge.Two of its neighbourhoods – Alexandra Park and Werneth – have consistently seen higher numbers and stand out as dark blue outliers on a map which plots cases across England.Between August 3 and August 9, Alexandra Park in the east of the town had the highest number of cases in the country according to the map, recording 72 cases.The rising number of Covid-19 infections has been mainly attributed to household transmission, rather than people mixing in pubs, shops or restaurants.Chiefs were keen to stress that positive cases of the virus were being identified across all of the borough, but.