Greater Manchester may have dodged further Covid-19 lockdown measures - for now

reached 380.Today a further nine have been confirmed across the region.

with each other rather than, for example, being linked to any obvious large workplace outbreak.

youngsters in Years 2 and 4 at Meanwood Primary School in Rochdale were sent home for another 14 days and the same thing has happened at some secondaries, including Dean Trust Wigan and St James' Catholic High School in Stockport, where pupils in Years 9, 10 and 11 are now isolating. With no official list available of all the bubble closures - and the Manchester Evening News only able to confirm cases after being alerted by parents - it's likely there are many more.

Manchester Evening News only able to confirm cases after being alerted by parents - it's likely there are many more. Yesterday we revealed how the number of schools reporting confirmed Covid cases had topped 350.

in Bolton have been closed since early September, with only takeaway services available.  Speaking in the Commons today, health secretary Matt Hancock said today: "We are aligning the measures in Bolton with the rest of Greater Manchester. "I'd like to pay tribute to David Greenhalgh, the leader of Bolton Council, for his constructive support and the Bolton MPs for all they have done in support of Bolton."There are no changes to measures in West Yorkshire, West Midlands, Leicester, Lancashire,

Manchester Evening News only able to confirm cases after being alerted by parents - it's likely there are many more. Yesterday we revealed how the number of schools reporting confirmed Covid cases since children returned in September had reached 314.

coronavirus is constantly being reviewed and updated.Measures are in place across the UK to help curb the spread of the deadly virus while local lockdown restrictions have also been imposed.Greater Manchester has been under a local lockdown since the end of July, however the rules and areas it applies to has changed frequently.Residents in Bolton still face tighter restrictions than the other nine boroughs after pubs and restaurants were ordered to close.But people in local lockdown areas still

close for a week after a 'significant number' of staff tested positive for Covid, and Loreto High in Chorlton, where Year 7s are isolating after a confirmed case.

Children should not be playing out with anyone outside their own household or support bubble, the government has confirmed. With rules in Greater Manchester being tighter than elsewhere - and the areas of Wigan and Stockport only just being added - there's been much confusion over what youngsters can and can't do.

Stockport and Wigan, bringing the boroughs in line with the rest of Greater Manchester, except Bolton where extra measures apply.

The total number of coronavirus deaths at hospital trusts in Greater Manchester, as of Saturday, September 19, currently stands at:Each day the NHS in England publishes the number of deaths recorded by each hospital trust in the last 24-hour period.These are deaths where the person had tested positive for the virus or where COVID-19 was mentioned on their death certificate.NHS England's daily figures sometimes include previously uncounted deaths and they do not include deaths in care homes or

the government’s latest extra Covid-19 restrictions, announced this morning, will have caused brows to furrow among those looking at the wider northern map.

full closure of a second primary school.St Luke's Primary in Heywood had already sent home pupils in Years 2, 3 and 6, but now it's been forced to shut to all year groups amid 'staffing issues'.Other primary schools have been sending home bubbles after confirmed cases, including Broadoak Primary in Swinton, where there's been a positive case, and Charlestown Primary, in Blackley, where Year 5 are isolating.Some schools which already had a number of children at home have had to tell more to stay

we reported how Horton Mill Primary School, in Glodwick, Oldham, had closed to all pupils after positive cases involving pupils and staff in several year groups. Elsewhere, The Duke of Norfolk CE Primary in Glossop, Derbyshire, has also shut following two positive cases including a member of the catering team who'd had widespread contact with the rest of the school.

According to the latest figures, the number of coronavirus cases in Greater Manchester has increased by around 50 per cent in one day.

reported the closure of another primary - The Duke of Norfolk CE Primary in Glossop, Derbyshire - earlier today. Among two positive cases was a member of the catering team who'd had widespread contact with the rest of the school.

Police and firefighters are to be used as contact tracers in bid to dodge Greater Manchester lockdown.The proposals are contained in a letter sent to Matt Hancock by the mayor today Greater Manchester plans to use the police and fire service to track down thousands of people being missed by the national test and trace service as it seeks to stave off any kind of ‘blanket lockdown’. It also wants to provide its own temporary ‘self isolation’ fund for people who cannot afford to stay at home due

coronavirus infection rates soar in the last few weeks. Bolton NHS Foundation Trust and Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust both recorded one more death.The total number of coronavirus deaths at hospital trusts in Greater Manchester, as of Friday, September 11, currently stands at: Meanwhile in Greater Manchester, the latest figures show there are sharp increases in coronavirus infection rates in every single borough.

Infection rates are increasing across all ten boroughs, with all but three in the government's 'red alert' zone for areas above 50 cases per 100,000 people.Bolton is the highest at 160.7 with Tameside and Salford in the 80s, Oldham, Rochdale and Manchester in the 70s and Bury in the 60s.Wigan, Trafford and Stockport are all in the 30s but are all on an upward trend as well.There were 2,029 positive cases in the week ending September 7, the first time the number has gone above 2,000 since April

Parts of Greater Manchester remain under local lockdown measures - but for how much longer?Restrictions have been in place for more than five weeks now, and only two boroughs have seen a full lifting of local lockdown measures.Residents of Wigan and Stockport are now under national guidance while people living in Manchester, Trafford, Salford, Tameside, Rochdale and Bury are still prevented from mixing with other households in their homes and gardens.Oldham and Bolton are seeing the strictest