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We are nearly at the coronavirus peak here - and spare hospital space could soon be used for other things

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Greater Manchester is nearly at its coronavirus peak, its health chief has said, as admissions and deaths begin to level off.

Sir Richard Leese said the region may ‘not quite’ be at the very height of the pandemic, but that all the signs were that it was not far away.

With 45pc of hospital space currently free here, he said over the next week local health leaders would begin to discuss using it for other patients, although he said things were not quite yet ‘business as usual’.

Today health secretary Matt Hancock confirmed that across the country as a whole the outbreak was considered to have peaked, but Sir Richard said that was necessarily quite the case here.

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