GM Weekly Pop Data after yesterday:~
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.
Salford 415 / 707 / DOWN 277 Testing positive 13.0%
Oldham 386 / 744 / DOWN 358 Testing positive 13.5%
Rochdale 371 / 651 / DOWN 280 Testing positive 13.2 %
Tameside 351 / 690 / DOWN 339 Testing positive 11.3%
Manchester 349 / 555 / DOWN 206 Testing positive 13.5%
Wigan 338 / 776 / DOWN 436 Testing positive 12.7%
Stockport 326 / 590 / DOWN 264 Testing positive 10.1 %
Trafford 313 / 526 / DOWN 213 Testing positive 10.2%
Bury 300 / 574 / DOWN 274 Testing positive 12.4%
Bolton 262 / 507 / DOWN 245 Testing positive 13.2%
MORE GIGANTIC FALLS IN WEEKLY POP - EVERYONE DOWN BY THREE FIGURES IN THE WEEK AND ALL OF THEM OVER 200 IS AMAZING AND UNPRECEDENTED DURING THE PANDEMIC.
HIGHEST FALLS EVER ACROSS THE BOARD.
Enjoy it while you can as these will now drop over the next few days as there just is not that far to fall any more.
.
Salford now alone over 400. Probably only for a day.
Bolton back close to its lowest score since Delta. And best in GM. Though Bury is close by.
The first two into Delta in April are now the two best scorers. Good sign
Stockport up by 49 - big jump up from lowest yesterday - on 10, 129 - and Trafford up by just 41 to 10, 228
So Trafford's good day v Stockport less so regained 8 in the overall Pop Score race to tale SKs lead to just 99 - half what it was.
These two boroughs have done this throughout the pandemic swapping places as best of the best two for 16 months.
It is a sign of a return to normality between waves when this resumes.
Bolton again was the lowest Pop Score in GM today - just 34 - to 13, 211.
Bury up 48 to 12, 408.
Manchester up 58 to 13, 483
Oldham up 58 too to 13, 485 - and retains its lead over Manchester of just 2 for highest overall Pop Score across the pandemic.
These two are in an even closer fight than Stockport and Trafford at the better end of the table.
Rochdale up 50 to 13, 239.
Salford up 55 - to enter into the 13K club as its fifth member.
Tameside up 45 to 11, 298
And Wigan up 42 to 12, 718.