showed a sudden day on day spike, fuelling concerns within government. Now projections by Public Health England and the conurbation’s health and social care partnership, leaked to the Manchester Evening News, suggest that if current trends continue, hospitals here could be seeing around 238 new Covid admissions a day by the end of October.
In the last week of September they were running at around seven a day. At the peak day of April 1, new Covid admissions and inpatient diagnoses, combined, totalled 240.