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.
Oldham 631 / 527 / UP 104 Testing positive 11.8%
Rochdale 585 / 479 / UP 106 Testing positive 11.7 %
Wigan 548 / 514 / UP 34 Testing positive 11.1%
Salford 535 / 499 / UP 36 Testing positive 11.5%
Trafford 532 / 446 / UP 86 Testing positive 9.0%
Manchester 512 / 527/ DOWN 15 Testing positive 12.2%
Tameside 470 / / 408 / UP 62 Testing positive 9.8%
Stockport 394 / 328 / UP 66 Testing positive 8.8%
Bury 391 / 408 / DOWN 17 Testing positive 11.2%
Bolton 333 / 296 / UP 37 Testing positive 12.2%
Oldham way up top now. Cannot recall last time GM had anyone over 600 - I think back in the Autumn wave.
With Rochdale second spot with its neighbour after some big case numbers of late.
Wigan, Salford and Trafford all up in the 500s now after some big recent numbers.
Manchester back there too - though still just going down wk to wk. For now.
Pop Scores - remember - take population of the borough into account so Manchester being so big is expected to have far more cases than Rochdale or Oldham which is why their numbers are lower in total but much worse in reality
Bury finally beat off Stockport to go second behind Bolton But only 3 in it so that could change again. Both were well up today and another day away from leaving Bolton as the only borough under 400,
Cannot recall the last time Stockport was over 400. If ever.
But six boroughs over 500 is as far as I can recall a GM first. Numbers are not getting better fast at all,
Bolton still lowest Pop but it had another bad day and is up on 333 is back up to the heights it was last at on 2 June. Not that far below where it peaked, Not what we want to see,
Trafford case numbers were much better today and Stockport only gained another 7 on its overall Pop Score to now be 176 behind Stockport .
Stockport up 60 now on 8851 but Trafford up by 67 - to enter the 9000 club on 9027.
Leaving Stockport as the sole occupant of the 8000 club. Though only for two or three days at current rates.
Bolton up 52 to 12, 168. The lowest Pop Score rise today ahead of Stockport,
Oldham up by 83 - NOT the highest daily Pop rise in GM today - up to 11, 848.
Manchester up 79 - now on 12, 212 .
Rochdale up 91 - outdid its neighbour Oldham as worst of the day today now on 11, 753.
Salford rose by 81 to 11, 497.
Bury up 67 to 11, 172.
Wigan up by 74 to11, 147.
So just Stockport now in the VERY UPPER 8000s - and Trafford joining Tameside a rung above in the 9K club with Tameside up 53 - only just failing to get the lowest Pop Score behind Bolton onto 9877.
Stockport will not be sole occupant of the 8 K club for long but is a couple of days away from reaching the 9K club too.