Other watch areas:
Birmingham sixth day with cases over 1000 at 1219. But Pop score up 'just' 107 to 5686 as this is the largest borough in the UK. Manchester with that many cases in a day would have a Pop rise of about 230. At 64, 919 Birmingham has by far the most cases across the pandemic in the UK. Only a handful are over 30,000.
Blackburn had another bad day adding 187 - not the highest recently though. Pop score up 125 to 8745. This is the highest Pop score in the UK by some way. Will be the first into the 9000 club in next week. That it has only had 13, 091 across the pandemic - lower than most boroughs in GM - shows how big 187 cases is in context. Akin to about 750 cases in Manchester.
Leicester is high at the moment too and they were in restrictions in June - even earlier than GM, Had 295 cases and Pop Score up similar numbers to Manchester today at 83.