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The latest Covid-19 infection rates for Greater Manchester as several boroughs move away from national average
direct to your inboxInfection rates in several areas of Greater Manchester are moving away from the national average.As of February 3, six boroughs across the region had a higher proportion of cases per 100,000 people than England as a whole.Rochdale, Wigan, Stockport, Salford, Manchester and Bolton now have a higher infection rate than the country's average, which is 222.4.Greater Manchester's average infection rate has also surpassed this figure, at 242.8 cases per 100,000 people.Bolton currently has the highest rate of infection across the conurbation, at 275.4 in the week ending February 3.Cases there are continuing to fall, but this appears to have stalled considerably in recent days.There were 792 new cases of Covid-19 there in the