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Coronavirus hospital deaths in Greater Manchester have halved in a week
The number of hospital patients dying from Covid in Greater Manchester has halved this week, from 28 to 14.Andy Burnham outlined the latest trends here at his weekly press conference, in which he also highlighted a ‘significant reduction’ in patients in intensive care, adding: “The overall picture is moving in the right direction.”The number of new cases appears to have currently stabilised at between 200 and 250 a week, compared to the height of the crisis, when numbers were closer to 1,000.Infections in care homes seem to be ‘stable’ too, he said, with 15pc of those in Greater Manchester currently reporting cases.