announced a new national lockdown to curb the virus on Monday night, Greater Manchester's infection rate was just over 300 cases per 100,000 people - way below the national average of over 537.
But despite the gap, there are signs that the new, more contagious strain of Covid-19 which is taking hold across the country has been driving up infection rates here in recent days.The number of positive tests is going up in all ten boroughs in our region and the upward trend appears to be accelerating.
For the first time since October, the infection rate across Greater Manchester is rising faster than in England as a whole. The latest rate in the region is 300.9 per 100,000 people in the week up to December 31 - up 45 per cent week-on-week.It is.