It is the second week in a row that regional leaders have had the most up-to-date testing data from the government, allowing authorities to paint a clearer picture of their local Covid-19 situation.
The infection rates have been calculated by combining ‘pillar one’ data gathered by councils and NHS trusts, as well as ‘pillar two’ statistics from testing centres.Rochdale still has the highest infection rate in the city-region but the numbers are steadily beginning to come down.Meanwhile the borough with the second highest infection rate, Oldham, has seen its number of cases drop by more than a third.Wigan, which many had claimed to be at risk of a local lockdown as seen in Leicester, has the lowest infection rate in Greater Manchester.And.