GM Scoreboard:
Happy news today.
Andy Burnham will be smiling as I assume he knows these details today.
KEY:- Borough / Cases today / Change from yesterday / Total cases across the pandemic / Cases in past week / Pop Score (cases per 100,000 people across the pandemic allowing place to place comparison - must rise every day and the lower number the better) / Weekly Pop (equivalent just cases across last 7 days per 100,000 population - rises and falls can occur - rises bad, means cases growing - falls good - the opposite).
Manchester 130 – down from 174. Total cases 30, 927. Weekly 1075. Pop score up 23 to 5594 . Weekly Pop down 13 to 194.
Rochdale 75 – same as yesterday. Total cases 12, 572, Weekly 638. Pop score up 34 to 5653. Weekly Pop down 4 to 287.
Wigan 67 – down from 123. Lowest in a very long time from Wigan, Had four times as many three weeks ago. Total cases 16, 444. Weekly 738. Pop score up 20 to leave the 4000 club to Tameside alone and up to 5003. Weekly Pop down 21 to 224.
Bolton 67 – down from 92 . Total cases 15, 032. Weekly 647. Pop score up 24 to 5228. Weekly Pop down 33 to 225.
Oldham 62 - down from 84. Total cases 14, 745. Weekly 596, Pop score up 26 to 6219. Joint most in GM today. Often would have been the lowest lately. Weekly Pop down 22 to 256.
Bury 49 – down from 61, Total cases 9681. Weekly 454. Pop score up 26 to 5069. Shares highest rise with Oldham. Weekly Pop down 14 to 223.\
Trafford 40 – up from 37. First day in a while Trafford not the best. But nothing in it as you can see. Total cases 8674. Weekly 289. Still falls week to week as best weekly numbers. Pop score up 17 to 3655. Weekly Pop down 5 to 122. Best (as in lowest) in GM.
Stockport 37 – down from 57. Total cases 10, 470. Weekly 441. Pop score up 12 to 3568. Best today in GM. First time for Stockport in a while to say that. Also lowest pop score rise in GM since September. Weekly Pop down 15 to 150. Cuts gap to Trafford on best weekly Pop to 28 and increases lead on them for best overall Pop score to 87.
Tameside 37 – down from 57. Total cases 10, 368. Weekly 358. Pop score up 17 to 4578. Weekly Pop down 13 to 158. One of now five boroughs under 200 weekly pop and that would normally be seen as low enough to be tier 2 if it were the only factor. But it isn't. There were none under 200 two weeks but Manchester joined today too.
Salford 36 – down from 67. Did you guess where it was to score this low? 3 weeks ago had 257 cases in a day! Salford back from basket case to GM borough with the top Pop score across the pandemic ahead of Stockport in July before the students came back. Total cases 13, 302. Weekly 425. Pop score up 14 to 5139. But for Stockport today would have been lowest in weeks and IS lowest in months for Salford. Weekly Pop down 10 to 164.
This was the best scoreboard for GM in many weeks.