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.
Manchester 361 / 298 / UP 63 Testing positive 10.7%
Salford 332 / 306 / UP 26 Testing positive 10.0%
Bury 328 / 265 / UP 63 Testing positive 10,0%
Wigan 302 / 228 / UP 74 Testing positive 9.7%
Bolton 258 / 301 / DOWN 43 Testing positive 11.3%
Trafford 240 / 195 / UP 45 Testing positive 7.7%
Rochdale 231 / 206 / UP 25 Testing positive 10.4 %
Oldham 223 / 173 / UP 50 Testing positive 10.4%
Tameside 213 / 161 / UP 52 Testing positive 8.7%
Stockport 197 / 229 / DOWN 32 Testing positive 7.9%
Manchester pulling clear from Salford and Bury now also in the 300s alomg with Wigan too. Making 4 boroughs over 300 for first time in many months.
And none of them Bolton.
Inded remarkably Trafford is close to going above Bolton too.
Stockport still the only botough below 200 though it stayed still today.
Trafford regained some of the lead on overall Pop Score on Stockport with a better day today now on 7748 with Stockport on 7893 - increasing the lead to 145.
Bolton is on its lowest Pop Score for nearly 6 weeks. Basically since Delta arrived.
Bolton unsurprisingly given its recent big numbers still has the highest GM Pop Score on 11, 274.
However, there are now 5 boroughs in the 10,000 club - Manchester on 10, 734. Rochdale on 10, 385 and Oldham 10, 393. Neck and neck there.
Salford which went into the 10 K club yesterday are on 10, 046.
But Bury became number 5 in GM today on 10030.
So there will be only 4 boroughs sub 10,000 tomorrow. Trafford and Stockport months away bar a disater in either. And Tameside many weeks off too bar the same.
But Wigan's bad numbers took them to 9703 and if they continue at this rate could cut it to 3 not over 10K by the week after next.
Hopefully not.
Tameside possibly may get there too this side of autumn - at 8715 is a good few weeks away from going into five figures.