Tougher restrictions which ban people from socialising with anyone they don’t live with are to remain in place for a further week in Oldham, the government has confirmed.The number of new coronavirus cases in the borough is now on a downward trend after spiking dramatically in the first week of August.The infection rate had climbed to 108 per 100,000 people, with 266 cases recorded in the seven days to August 11.Now the rate has now more than halved, down to 51.9 for the week ending August 24, with 123 cases.However the borough still has the highest incidences of Covid-19 in the country, according to Public Health England.It had been feared that Oldham was on the edge of being plunged into a full Leicester-style lockdown, with its pubs,.
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