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Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham has called on the government NOT to send Oldham into full lockdown to stamp out rising coronavirus cases – as he warned there is a danger to ‘overreact’ to the numbers.Oldham council stated on Wednesday that three weeks of increasing cases in the borough mean that it could soon become subject to a Leicester-style lockdown, with shops, pubs and businesses forced to close.There has been a spike of 255 cases in the week up to August 8 – almost double the previous week’s total of 137 cases.However speaking at a press conference, Mr Burnham said that they had written to the government to ask them to hold fire on a decision for a further week to give the current restrictions time to work.Sir Richard Leese,

A pair of towns are climbing the coronavirus hotspot table after dozens of new cases were recorded this week.

hereOr to like her Facebook page and keep up to with the latest news, click hereHere's the link to the M.E.N's main Facebook page where we share our latest stories.It also has the highest rate of any local authority in England, jumping from 62 cases per 100,000 people in the seven days to August 2.In Pendle, the rate has risen from 66.2 to 82.5, with 76 new cases.Blackburn with Darwen is third, where the rate has fallen from 83.5 to 73.5, with 110 new cases.Leicester has seen a rise from 56.7 to 68.9, with 244 new cases.Across Greater Manchester there were 991 cases of Covid-19 recorded in the seven days up to August 9.Like Oldham, Rochdale has also seen an acceleration in positive tests.There were 99 cases recorded in the borough in the

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The number of Covid-19 cases in Oldham is rising week on week – but it can’t be dismissed as the result of increased testing, the borough’s health chief has explained.Figures released on Tuesday show there has been another spike of 255 cases in the week up to August 8, up from the previous seven days’ total of 137.The infection rate is now standing at 107.5 cases per 100,000 people in the borough – as high as it was during the height of the pandemic in mid April.The council brought back tougher restrictions on residents socialising two weeks ago in a bid to tackle new cases of the virus, and has also ramped up testing.Testing of people in the borough has escalated from an average of around 150 tests a day, up to 800.However the important

Bolton but a week later, on August 7, the seven-day total had risen to 81, an increase of over 42 per cent.

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Trafford has seen the most marked decline in the infection rate in the first week of local lockdown. The chart shows that cases rose rapidly in the middle of July but actually peaked a couple of days before the new restrictions were brought in on July 30.

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The number of coronavirus cases in the world has reached 20 million.

The towns and cities worst affected by the coronavirus are seeing their rates of infection tick upwards.

this link.- The government uses this data to determine whether to put a region into local lockdown. It would also be used to decide if local restrictions should be lifted.- The number of people being tested is rising, which will lead to the number of positive tests rising.

The number of coronavirus infections worldwide has passed 20 million - and the disease is still accelerating.

Young people are fuelling the coronavirus outbreak in Preston as around half the new cases reported last week were people aged under 30.

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here Since then the council saw a rise in cases among those in their 40s and 50s.Meanwhile, Oldham’s coronavirus infection rate has continued to climb rapidly.The borough still has the highest rate in Greater Manchester, at 77.2 in the week ending August 6, the latest government data shows.There were 183 cases in Oldham that week, which is 26 more than the previous week ending July 30.Rochdale’s rate of infection has continued to climb with the figures released on Sunday (August 9) showing the rate at 36 in the seven days ending August 6, with 80 cases - 12 more than the previous week.The borough remains on amber alert.To follow Beth on Twitter, click hereOr to like her Facebook page and keep up to with the latest news, click hereHere's the

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hereThe city’s mortality rate remains below the English average and well below the north west average.Until a fortnight ago, meanwhile, the rolling average for cases in the city since mid-March had been solidly mid-table for the ten boroughs, pretty much bang on the Greater Manchester average.Its cumulative infection rate - in other words the number of cases recorded per 100,000 people since the start - stands at 621, around the average for the north west.So by no means cheerful, but not what some had feared.Some of that may have been down to the city deciding in the early days to test people on discharge from hospital before they were returned to their care home - despite government telling them not to - as well as a coordinated approach