Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing Covid rates in Greater Manchester are currently SIX times higher than at the same time last year, the latest data shows.
The Manchester Evening News first began monitoring infection data on a daily basis when the government began publishing it towards the end of last summer.
On September 2, 2020, the coronavirus infection rate for the region was 50.6 cases per 100,000 people. On the same date this year it was 312.8.
Our graph demonstrates how infection rates in Greater Manchester spiked dramatically throughout September and October last year.
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