Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing Coronavirus cases are falling in seven boroughs across Greater Manchester, the latest figures show.
Tameside, Bury and Bolton are the only areas to see an increase in the infection rate. In Greater Manchester as a whole, the infection rate is now 299.6 cases per 100,000 population, the latest data from Public Health England shows.
That's now lower then the national average, which is 301.1. READ MORE: Suicide rate fell during first coronavirus lockdown, study finds A total of 8,496 people tested positive for coronavirus across the region in the week which ended on August 29.