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Greater Manchester's latest Covid hotspots - and places where it is plummeting
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The level of Covid-19 infections continues to fall across Greater Manchester neighbourhoods, with some areas seeing fewer than ten cases.
A total of 11,522 people tested positive for coronavirus across Greater Manchester in the week which ended on February 9.
In the region as a whole, the infection rate is now now 406.3 cases per 100,000 population, which is significantly lower than the England average rate of 665.4.
READ MORE: Coronavirus infection rates remain below national average in all ten Greater Manchester boroughs
Meanwhile deaths of people with Covid-19 have fallen by 30pc week on week.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to make a statement on February 21 setting out the strategy of how the UK will live with coronavirus going forward.
It is expected that he will announce that there will no longer be a legal duty to self isolate after testing positive for the virus from the end of the month.
According to the latest local data, the top ten local infection hotspots for the virus are spread across Bolton, Stockport, Tameside, Manchester, Trafford and Bury.
However each area is seeing much lower infection rates than in the first weeks after the Christmas period, where they exceeded more than 3,000 per 100,000 residents.
Coronavirus ‘hotspots’ and ‘notspots’ can be revealed via an interactive map charting the number of positive Covid-19 test results in each neighbourhood across the country using government data.
It shows the number of infections per local area, broken down into neighbourhoods containing roughly 7,000 people.
The number of new cases is then used to calculate the infection rate per 100,000 people.
In the week to February 8 the latest hyperlocal data shows the biggest hotspot was Highfield and New
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