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.
Wigan 715 / 648 / UP 67 Testing positive 12.4 %
Oldham 666 / 734 / DOWN 68 Testing positive 13.1%
Salford 658 / 598 / UP 60 Testing positive 12.6%
Tameside 623 / 563 / UP 60 Testing positive 10.9%
Rochdale 601 / 668 / DOWN 67 Testing positive 12.9 %
Stockport 564 / 510 / UP 54 Testing positive 9.8%
Bury 524 / 520 / UP 4 Testing positive 12.1%
Manchester 516 / 541 / DOWN 25 Testing positive 13.1%
Trafford 501 / 509 / DOWN 8 Testing positive 9.9%
Bolton 476 / 407 / UP 69 Testing positive 12.9%
Very good day for everyone even Stockport, though less good than the rest,
Four of the boroughs now FALLING week to week abd the huge 100/200 weekly rises wiped out.
Every single borough down today for the first time in weeks.
Moreover BOTH Oldham and Manchester joined Trafford and Rochdale in doing enough today to start that FALL week to week in their Pop Scores we need to see for all.
The start - hopefully - of the big turnaround.
Ironically ITV announced on the news 2 days ago - from 5 day old data - that Wigan's Pop Score was in the 800s - on the day it fell out of there - and today it fell so much that by the time they catch up it will likely not even be in the 700s.
This is why I never use the 5 day old data. It can make you miss important changes in any direction for several potentially vital days.
Stockport up by 62. well down on yesterday, to 9865 - bit again well beaten by Trafford up 55 - to reach 9970 . So Stockport's lead drops by to 105.
Trafford's excellent turnabout in past days delayed its entry into the 10K club until tomorrow and barring a complete disaster by Stockport tomorrow it will now be the last borough standing there.
For at most a couple of days.
By Monday GM will be 5 figures only,
Bolton up 50 to 12, 999 - niftily JUST avoiding the 13 K club for a day taking its Pop Score back below 500 too.
Manchester up 56 - to 13, 190
Rochdale up 63 onto 12, 931.
But Oldham up 66 - its lowest rise in some time to reach 13, 165.
Salford up 70 to go onto 12, 672.
Bury up just 41 - lowest daily rise in GM in some time - to 12, 149 .
Tameside up by 63 today to join the 11K club on 11, 010
Wigan much better than of late up just 56 - below Stockport - to 12, 436.