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is now more than three times higher than the national average, standing at 35.8 cases per 100,000 people in the latest figures up to the week ending Friday, August 28, but hospital admissions for COVID are down.

Hale has become one of Greater Manchester’s top ten coronavirus case ‘hotspots’.Trafford had 85 new cases of COVID-19 last week – with eight new cases declared in Hale between July 20 and 26.It means the ward was one of the top 10 for new coronavirus cases in Greater Manchester during that period.In an interview on BBC Radio 5Live, council leader Coun Andrew Western announced the ward had an infection rate of around 95 per 100,000 people.According to data from Public Health England, when areas like Urmston and Sale are taken as a whole, their case rates are also high.The two wards in Urmston, Urmston East and Urmston West, had nine cases between them.Sale’s wards (north, east, central and Sale Moor) had 12.Coun Western announced Trafford

An eight-year-old school girl has designed the new climbing wall at a £7 million leisure centre.