Another 21 people have died from coronavirus in Greater Manchester's hospitals. It means the death toll in the region's hospitals has reached 1,800, NHS figures have confirmed.
And the North West is now the UK's Covid-19 hotspot, with 50 deaths reported on Thursday. That's roughly double the number of daily fatalities in the South East and Yorkshire and about a third higher than the Midlands.
London only saw 18 deaths in the last 24 hours. Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust recorded another nine deaths on Thursday, while Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust reported six more deaths.
There were two more deaths at NHS Bolton Foundation Trust, while NHS Nightingale Hospital North West, the temporary coronavirus hospital set up at