outbreaks at halls of residence after students returned to university.
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have been asked to self-isolate and not leave their accommodation for a fortnight.
It follows a spike in Covid-19 cases linked to the flats with 137 confirmed by Saturday night.Elsewhere Alexandra Park in Oldham continues to see high numbers of infections.In the week up to September 23, there were 57 positive tests in the area - the most in Greater Manchester.Five of the 10 worst affected areas in the region are currently in Manchester.Other hotspots include Wardleworth and Newbold Brow in
.outbreaks at halls of residence after students returned to university.
outbreaks at halls of residence after students returned to university. But localised figures show that in heavily populated student areas such as Fallowfield, the number of cases is down 70 per cent week-on-week.
The total number of coronavirus deaths at hospital trusts in Greater Manchester, as of Tuesday, October 13 are:Bolton NHS Foundation Trust - 260Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - 9Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust - 484NHS Nightingale Hospital North West - 6Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust - 599Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust - 6Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust - 200Stockport NHS Foundation Trust - 239Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust -
A new walk-in Covid-19 testing centre will open in one of the country's worst hotspots for cases of the virus.Residents living in Fallowfield, in south Manchester, will be able to get tested at a mobile testing unit (MTU) in the car park of The Armitage Centre on Moseley Road at the University of Manchester campus.More than 500 new cases of Covid-19 were reported in Fallowfield in the week to October 7 as thousands of students returned to the area.Positive results amongst the 17-21 age group
hereThe total number of coronavirus deaths at hospital trusts in Greater Manchester, as of Monday, October 12 are:Nationally further 36 people, who tested positive for Covid-19 have died, bringing the total number of confirmed reported deaths in hospitals in England to 30,507.Patients were aged between 31 and 97 years old, NHS England said.All but two patients (aged 81 and 93) had known underlying health conditions.Date of death ranges from October 8 to October 11 with the majority being on or
The rate of coronavirus infection remains high across Greater Manchester - with hundreds of people testing positive each week.All 10 boroughs remain at the Government's 'red alert' level.Manchester continues to the be the worst affected area in the region and remains one of the UK's coronavirus hotspots.There were 2,715 positive tests in the city in the week up to October 7, according to the latest figures published by Public Health England.That's a slight increase of 21 on the week before.But
coronavirus cases in Fallowfield have more than doubled in a week, the latest data shows. The suburb, which is home to thousands of students, remains the region's Covid hotspot as the virus continues to spread in the area.
hereThe other boroughs also saw a rise in their infection rates: Salford, 337.3; Oldham, 327.3; Bury 307.9; Wigan, 292.7, Tameside, 258.7; Stockport, 245.5.Some 71,717 positive cases were registered in England, an infection rate of 127.4.Although the number of cases is rising steeply across much of the country, there is now much more testing than at the height of the first wave of the pandemic in April and May.
unable to confirm whether restrictions in Oldham were stricter than in other areas of Greater Manchester.
here Manchester has become a coronavirus hotspot as new data shows it has the highest infection rate of any area in England.Figures released by Public Health England show the seven-day rate in Manchester was 495.6 cases per 100,000 population for the week ending on October 1.The virus is also spreading faster in Manchester than in nearly any other area with the number of positive tests doubling week-on-week.The total number of coronavirus deaths at hospital trusts in Greater Manchester, as of
coronavirus hotspots across the region are now in Manchester, the latest data shows. Covid cases are continuing to spike in the areas around the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and Salford University campuses.
Manchester Evening News reported how Fallowfield, an area with a high-population of students, had become the country's Covid-19 hotspot.All boroughs in Greater Manchester remain in the red alert zone for infection rates.There were a total of 648 cases recorded in the region today, down from 897 yesterday.Although the numbers have flattened over the past couple of days in eight of the region's boroughs, and are down in Bury and Bolton, the rates in Greater Manchester are still heading upwards as
confirmed more than 200 students and staff have tested positive for coronavirus in the past ten days.
hereBolton still has the highest infection rate in Greater Manchester - 231.That's followed by Manchester (207) and Bury (193).The figures, for the seven days to September 25, are based on tests carried out in laboratories (pillar one of the Government's testing programme) and in the wider community (pillar two).The rate is expressed as the number of new cases per 100,000 people.Data for the most recent three days - September 26-28 - has been excluded as it is incomplete and likely to be
Bolton suggested it will help drive down coronavirus infection rates.Bolton has remained on ‘red’ alert for a number of weeks.There were 212 cases per 100,000 in the town at the beginning of the local lockdown on September 8.Greater Manchester’s other nine boroughs all remain on red alert too for the fourth day running, according to the latest figures from Public Health England.In Wigan, the rate jumped from 90.4 in the week ending September 18 to 101.9 in the week ending September 19.Rates are
of Oldham has become the latest coronavirus hotspot in Greater Manchester. Alexandra Park has the highest number of cases across the region, seeing 47 positive tests during the week ending September 16. Werneth, also in Oldham, recorded 46 cases while Levenshulme North had 40 confirmed cases. Recently, all ten boroughs across Greater Manchester moved into the highest level of alert for the first time. Manchester has seen its highest ever single-day spike in new coronavirus cases as the city
one more coronavirus death has been recorded at Greater Manchester’s hospitals.
coronavirus cases per 100,000 people, the latest figures for Greater Manchester show.
the total number of positive cases in Greater Manchester increased by more than 50 per cent in one day.There were 576 positive cases confirmed in the region on Wednesday, compared with 374 on Tuesday.But that is likely to have been caused by the backlog of tests that have been taken that took longer to produce a result.A more accurate guide to the bigger picture is the infection rate.Our latest analysis of the data shows that Oldham is still seeing an increase in cases, but the infection rate