GM Weekly Pop Data after today:~
Borough / Pop Today / 7 days ago / up or down wk to wk/ Testing is % of local population who have tested positive for Covid over past year.
As ever with Pop going up is bad, going down good - the higher the number the better or worse depending on direction moving. The Pop is total cases in past week versus 100,000 POPulation to even out the comparison versus size and expected cases based on numbers living there.
Manchester 348 / 291 / UP 57 Testing positive 10.7%
Salford 340 / 301 / UP 39 Testing positive 10.0%
Bury 323 / 259 / UP 64 Testing positive 9.9%
Wigan 293 / 218 / UP 75 Testing positive 9.7%
Bolton 271 / 315 / DOWN 44 Testing positive 11.2%
Trafford 242 / 192 / UP 50 Testing positive 7.7%
Rochdale 236 / 189 / UP 47 Testing positive 10.4 %
Tameside 211 / 143 / UP 68 Testing positive 8.7%
Oldham 211 / 159 / UP 52 Testing positive 10.4%
Stockport 197 / 232 / DOWN 35 Testing positive 7.9%
Manchester back on top from Salford and Bury now also in the 300s with a fast rising Wigan heading there too.
Bolton now down in 5th place and still falling.
Trafford and Rochdale both going up and Oldham had a bad day so all over 200 now.
Stockport now has the best GM record after looking like it was going to challenge Bolton a week or so ago. Now these are the only two boroughs falling and it took Stockport below 200 as the only GM borough there now. Quite a reversal in the past week. Showing how fast these things can change in either direction. For anybody!
Stockport's success has also seen it eat more out of Trafford's recent 200 lead for overall Pop Score across the pandemic.
Trafford is still easily top on 7719 but Stockport cut the gap again by 16 in one go today to 142 and is on 7861,
Bolton unsurprisingly now has the highest GM Pop Score on 11, 241.
However, there are now 4 boroughs in the 10,000 club - Manchester on 10, 676. Rochdale on 10, 352 and Oldham's bad day meaning it overtook them by 2 to reach 10, 354. Truly neck and neck there.
Salford had a worse day than Bury and so beat them to be the next to join the 10 K club - just - on 10, 002
But Bury on 9989 will join them tomorrow as nobody in GM has had a daily Pop rise of just 11 lately. Stockport had the best today and that was 29.
So there will be only 4 boroughs sub 10,000 tomorrow. Trafford and Stockport months away bar a disater in either. And Tameside many weeks off too bar the same.
But Wigan's bad numbers if they continue will see it top 10,000 within the next week to 10 days.
Hopefully not. On current numbers at 9608 it is maybe two weeks away, Though at the 59 which it rose today that might become one.
Tameside possibly may get there too this side of autumn - at 8650 - but we will hopefully hae stopped counting by then.