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 404 / 481 / DOWN 77 Testing positive 13.3%
Manchester 341 / 364 / DOWN 23 Testing positive 13.7%
Oldham 335 / 472 / DOWN 137 Testing positive 13.7%
Stockport 288 / 392 / DOWN 104 Testing positive 10.3 %
Rochdale 285 / 450 / DOWN 165 Testing positive 13.4%
Bury 274 / 368 / DOWN 94 Testing positive 12.6%
Tameside 269 / 437 / DOWN 168 Testing positive 11.5%
Trafford 268 / 383 / DOWN 115 Testing positive 10.4%
Wigan 245 / 436 / DOWN 191 Testing positive 12.9%
Bolton 194 / 329 / DOWN 135 Testing positive 13.3%
Salford still alone just over 400 but seven of the ten boroughs now under 300.
Oldham rose after a bit of a bump The rest down a bit.
Bolton now lowest it has been since early May and still falling, And today became the first GM borough to fall into the 100s again.
Few would have put money on a rampant Bolton being the first to do that 3 months ago.
Stockport up by 33 - on 10, 331 - better score. Trafford rose onto exactly the same - taking it up to 10, 417. So Stockport's lead for the best overall Pop Score across the pandemic stayed at 86.
Rochdale up 34 to 13, 401
But Bolton again was the lowest Pop Score in GM today - just 18 - to 13, 340.
The lowest GM score in some weeks and first below 20 in quite a while,
Bury up 26 to 12, 598.
Manchester up 39 to 13, 719
Oldham up 48 - the highest today - to 13, 714 which means Manchester still leads on the highest GM Pop Score title across the pandemic but now by only 5 ahead of Oldham!
Salford up 37 - to 13, 296 .
Tameside up 23 to 11, 473 joint second lowest Pop rise today
And Wigan also up 23 to 12, 878. alongside of it.