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11.05.2022 - 00:23 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The coronavirus infection rate has gone up in one area of Greater Manchester, as the weekly rates continue to plummet across the other nine areas. However, the infection rate across the region remains below the national average.
Cases in the borough of Manchester have risen by 2 per cent, as Trafford continues to have the highest coronavirus infection rate in Greater Manchester. The borough recorded a rate of 104.8 cases per 100,000 people in the week ending May 6.
The lowest infection rate is in Oldham, where the rate is 68.2 cases per 100,000 people. In Greater Manchester as a whole, the infection rate is now 91.0 cases per 100,000 population.
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The infection rate in the region is lower than the national average, which is 108.9 cases per 100,000 people. A total of 2,580 people tested positive for coronavirus across Greater Manchester in the week which ended on May 6.
The Greater Manchester weekly total has decreased by 600 cases compared to the previous week, which means the infection rate was down 19 per cent in the last week.
Hospital admissions
In the week ending on May 01, a total of 373 patients were admitted to Greater Manchester NHS hospitals with Covid-19. That is 49 fewer than the week before, a fall of 15 per cent.
On Tuesday May 03, there were 17 Mechanical Ventilation (MV) beds occupied by Covid patients in Greater Manchester NHS hospitals. That is the same as a week earlier.
Deaths
In the week ending May 6, a total of 46 people died within 28 days of a positive Covid test across Greater Manchester, which is 3 fewer than the week before. Since the start of the pandemic, there have been a total of 991,084 confirmed
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