Latest Greater Manchester infection rates hours before restrictions are lifted
24.02.2022 - 00:11
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Coronavirus infection rates in Greater Manchester remain well below the national average on the eve of remaining restrictions starting to be lifted.
From tomorrow (Thursday) the legal requirement to self-isolate following a positive test tracing will be removed as part of the government's 'living with Covid' plan. Although until April people who have or suspect they have the virus will still be advised to isolate.
Ahead of the move, the latest figures show the number of cases is continuing to fall in all boroughs in our region.
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And the borough with the highest rate in Greater Manchester, Stockport, is nearly 50 percent lower than the national average.
The borough recorded a rate of 288.2 cases per 100,000 people in the week ending February 19, according to the latest data from the UK Health Security Agency.
That is markedly lower than the national average, which is 421.7 cases per 100,000 people.
The lowest infection rate is in Oldham, where the rate is 185.6 cases per 100,000 people.
In Greater Manchester as a whole, the infection rate is now 242.7 cases per 100,000 population.
A total of 6,883 people tested positive for coronavirus across Greater Manchester in the week which ended on February 19.
The Greater Manchester weekly total has decreased by 2870 cases compared to the previous week, which means the infection rate was down 29 percent in the last week..
The infection rate is lower than the national average in all ten local authorities in Greater Manchester.
In the week ending on February 13, a total of 425 patients were admitted to Greater Manchester NHS hospitals with Covid-19. That is 113 fewer than the week before, a fall of 36 percent.
On Tuesday February 15, there were 27 Mechanical