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Cases of flu are skyrocketing across the country, including in Greater Manchester. Data warns that thousands of people are coming down with the illness so severely that they are being taken to hospital.

Health service chiefs have said it could be seeing the worst ever winter flu season, with Greater Manchester seeing almost three times the number of people in hospital with flu compared to this time last year.

Cases of flu are much higher than last year and, according to one Greater Manchester GP, 'the concern is that it’s rising and we don’t know where it’s going to stop'. “In the first week of December, we saw a 360% rise in hospital admissions for flu compared to last year.

That’s a huge increase," explained Bolton GP Dr Helen Wall. “We always see a spike in winter, so we expect that. But we’ve had much higher rates, and much earlier on in the year.

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