Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Covid-19 infection rates and hospital admissions are continuing to fall across Greater Manchester, but the region remains ‘a long way off’ achieving herd immunity.
Manchester council leader Sir Richard Leese says vaccine takeup amongst 18 to 49-year-olds needs to ramp up for most of the population to have some protection against the virus.
Currently, 30 per cent of the age group have had a first jab of a vaccine, compared to 85 per cent of people aged 50 to 69 and 94 per cent of over-70s.
Vaccinating younger people is part of the ‘next big push’ by public health officials in Greater Manchester trying to maintain the overall downward trajectory in Covid case