Greater Manchester, like the rest of the world, has been battling with coronavirus for more than two years now. As we head into a third winter of living with the the virus more than 1m covid cases have been recorded in our region and tragically more than 10,000 lives have been lost.
Here, using the latest available figures, we attempt to assess how coronavirus is affecting Greater Manchester currently. It's important to note that now the government has ended free tests for most people, the number of recorded cases has become a less reliable measure when tracking the spread of coronavirus.
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