A further 28 people have died in Greater Manchester's hospitals after contracting coronavirus.
22.04.2020 - 19:41 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Greater Manchester is nearly at its coronavirus peak, its health chief has said, as admissions and deaths begin to level off.
Sir Richard Leese said the region may ‘not quite’ be at the very height of the pandemic, but that all the signs were that it was not far away.
With 45pc of hospital space currently free here, he said over the next week local health leaders would begin to discuss using it for other patients, although he said things were not quite yet ‘business as usual’.
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