Coronavirus infection rates have gone up in all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester and are continuing to rise, with hospitalisations also seeing an increase, new figures have revealed. Of the ten local authority areas, Trafford continues to have the highest coronavirus infection rate in Greater Manchester, with a rate of 854.5 cases per 100,000 people in the week ending March 25.
The lowest infection rate is in Oldham, where the rate is 442.3 cases per 100,000 people. In Greater Manchester as a whole, the infection rate is now 624.0 cases per 100,000 population.
However, the infection rate in the region is still lower than the national average, which is 877.9 cases per 100,000 people. A total of 17,695 people tested positive for coronavirus across Greater Manchester in the week which ended on March 25.
