A hit and run driver who moved down a boy of 12, a vile bully who terrorised his ex in front of her screaming children and the Arena bomb plotter are among the people from Greater Manchester who have been jailed this week.
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Coronavirus infection rates have continued to fall across all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester.
And rates across the region remain below the national average, latest figures have revealed.
Stockport continues to have the highest coronavirus infection rate in Greater Manchester, with 656.4 cases per 100,000 people as of week ending February 5.
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The lowest infection rate is in Oldham, where the rate is 449.0 cases per 100,000 people.
In Greater Manchester as a whole, the infection rate is now 536.8 cases per 100,000 population.
The infection rate in the region is lower than the national average, which is 836.5 cases per 100,000 people.
A total of 15,222 people tested positive for coronavirus across Greater Manchester in the week which ended on February 5.
The Greater Manchester weekly total has decreased by 6929 cases compared to the previous week, which means the infection rate was down 31 per cent in the last week.
Hospital admissions
In the week ending on January 30, a total of 595 patients were admitted to Greater Manchester NHS hospitals with Covid-19. That is 81 fewer than the week before, a fall of 16%.
On Tuesday February 01, there were 30 Mechanical Ventilation (MV) beds occupied by Covid patients in Greater Manchester NHS hospitals. That is one fewer than a week earlier.
Deaths
In the week ending February 5, a total of 84 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test across Greater Manchester, which is 13 fewer than the week before.
Since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 879,192 confirmed coronavirus cases in Greater Manchester. There has been a total of 8,657 deaths.
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