Weekly recorded cases of coronavirus across Greater Manchester are down 17 per cent, the newest figures have revealed. Infection rates across Greater Manchester are continuing to plummet and have fallen in all of its ten boroughs.
Tameside continues to have the highest coronavirus infection rate in Greater Manchester, with a rate of 855.9 cases per 100,000 people as of January 26. READ MORE'Sleepwalking into addiction': The hidden opioid crisis of the pandemic as patients forced to wait years for surgery The lowest infection rate is in Oldham, where the rate is 648.5 cases per 100,000 people.
In Greater Manchester as a whole, the infection rate is now 724.5 cases per 100,000 population. The infection rate in the region is lower than the national average, which is 976.5 cases per 100,000 people.
A total of 20,544 people tested positive for coronavirus across Greater Manchester in the week which ended on January 26. The Greater Manchester weekly total has decreased by 4,069 cases compared to the previous week, which means the infection rate was down 17 per cent in the last week. Hospital admissions In the week ending on January 23, a total of 676 patients were admitted to Greater Manchester NHS hospitals with Covid-19.