Unfortunately not a great day for Greater Manchester. Though not a disaster. Its percentage of the NW rises to the highest in 6 months and so the highest since I have kept track of it when it was in big trouble last autumn.
By chance the day to day rise is exactly the rise of one borough so you can all boo Bolton if you wish. Unfairly.
It was up 34 today to 67 cases (second behind Manchester which fell to 85).
GM itself rose by 34 to 457 cases and a whopping 56.8% of the NW region - which today rose by just 18 cases all told to 805. And was 200 behind Yorkshire which was top again - rising by 161 today to 1005.
Much better news is that the 457 GM score was down from 543 seven days ago so most places in GM will see Pop Score falls not rises - and even Bolton is only up 6 week to week.
Salford was third place down 4 on 54 but still climbing as that is up 12 week to week.
Wigan 51 and Tameside 46 also quite high though the former down 15 wk to wk and the latter up just 2
Trafford was best scorer again but up to 20 - the highest 'low' score we have had in GM during the past week. But that is down 10 for Trafford week to week nonetheless so good news.
Bury on 26 next best and down week to week. Stockport 35, Oldham 36 and Rochdale 37 all in a row and all down big week to week too.