Manchester Covid patients to take part in study on long-term impact of the virus

imposed tougher restrictions in a bid to prevent a local lockdown asking vulnerable people to shield for another two weeks and residents not to have 'social visitors' to their homes.

tougher restrictions in a bid to prevent a local lockdown.Vulnerable and elderly people have been asked to continue shielding for another two weeks and residents are no longer allowed 'social visitors' to their homes.The 119 new cases recorded in the seven days to July 25 is up from 26 the previous week.Meanwhile, Stockport’s young adults have been asked to observe ‘covid-safe socialising’ after a spike in cases over the weekend.Town hall bosses say the number of 18 - 25 year olds testing

straight to your inboxHere are your Manchester City headlines for the evening of Tuesday July 28.It’s expected that the Champions League last 16 second leg between Manchester City and Real Madrid will still go ahead despite a positive Covid-19 case in the camp of the latter.News broke on Tuesday that fringe player Mariano Diaz had tested positive for the coronavirus, with the striker now ruled out of next week’s match against Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium.Despite this, Real Madrid are

hereAll of the children and their grandmother are now infected, the German paper reports.It is understood that they have not required hospital treatment.Bild reports that the couple arrived home on a Ryanair flight on July 16 - but were not diagnosed with coronavirus until six days later, Gudrun Widders, a Berlin health official told BILD newspaper.It is not yet known if Ryanair has contacted other passengers who were on the July 16 flight.The M.E.N has contacted the airline for comment.Germany

straight to your inbox Manchester City and Real Madrid are continuing to prepare for their Champions League showdown next Friday despite one player at the Spanish club testing positive for Covid-19.

straight to your inboxGabriel Jesus says he prefers to operate from the left-wing but says his progress in the central role makes this season his best-ever for Manchester City.Jesus is preparing for City's final Premier League game of the season, and can make history if he scores against Norwich on Sunday.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) hospitals, including the Manchester Royal Infirmary(MRI), Wythenshawe Hospital and North Manchester General.

extra measures that have been introduced.” In other boroughs that had been of some concern, rates are now going the right way. Bolton is ‘very much back in a better position’, he said, while Oldham was now ‘much more in line with other authorities’.

if the latest round of government funding falls short of what is needed to cover the outstanding deficit.

The Observer reports that the health secretary has agreed to provide patient-identifiable test results - named lists of individuals who have contracted the virus - to town halls so they can help track the virus on the ground.

When Ray Tollerfield volunteered to help distribute emergency supplies around Greater Manchester, he didn’t imagine the ‘sheer distance’ he’d end up covering. As managing director of kitchen supplier KPS Pronorm, Ray agreed to help out at a depot on Swan Street, which was set up to collect generous donations to the Covaid-19 appeal - which aims to raise money for the most vulnerable people across Greater Manchester.

Longsight, which is run by Little Sisters Of The Poor, looks after elderly residents and is currently at half capacity due to building work.Before lockdown, work on rebuilding one wing of the home was already taking place.

Salford’s Paul Dennett all writing to government arguing that without it, their public health departments will be unable to effectively monitor and contain the disease.Officials want the same information they would legally receive about any other ‘notifiable’ disease - such as TB or measles - in order to take preventative action and squash any outbreaks.

with vital information in the fight against COVID-19’.

herePosting on Twitter, Wigan Council said: "Each week, we will publish a Covid-19 tracker for the borough showing the latest info over the last 7 days."This week, we can confirm that Wigan Borough has the lowest rate of new cases in Greater Manchester and new cases continue to reduce each week."Our rates are now a the lowest since mid-March.

Staff at a group of Greater Manchester NHS hospitals have now helped more than 1,000 patients who were suffering from Covid-19 on the road to recovery.The Northern Care Alliance (NCA) celebrated reaching the milestone after discharging more people this weekend who had tested positive for the coronavirus.The group oversees five hospitals - Salford Royal, The Royal Oldham, Fairfield, Rochdale Infirmary and North Manchester General - as well as looking after community services.A spokesman for the

straight to your inboxFootball is a curious thing at times.Manchester City are still on course to have a better season than Manchester United ’s famed Treble winners, and yet there is a view that they have had a disappointing campaign. Yesterday’s defeat at Southampton was a stark reminder of the old adage that you are only as good as your last game.

Manchester Evening News : "Manchester and Salford were bombed sporadically in the war which actually made it much more difficult for many people in the city. "Whereas in London it was just a constant bombing and people got used to it, these sporadic bombs were quite disheartening.