more than double the national rate, the infection rate fell by 12%. But at 540.9 the town still has the second highest rate in Greater Manchester.
The figures appear to back up Andy Burnham's tentative hopes - expressed in a press conference last week - that second-wave Covid infection rates may have peaked in Greater Manchester.
Data published by the Mayor showed that alongside an infection rate drop new hospital admissions and inpatient diagnoses had also fallen slightly across Greater Manchester in the past week.But there has been a further 14% rise in Covid patients in hospital beds, as people spend longer in hospital receiving treatment.Care home cases are also continuing to rise and although Mr Burnham said they were lower than April.