Very frustrating that Boris never got to tell the people this other great news as the figures were so late.
GM had its lowest numbers for over a month today and is back looking almost exactly as it did in September before the schools/uni rises that led to tier 3.
Now back when cases were at a similar level and most boroughs were very close to one another in numbers and half of GM was not in the 200s or 300s every day.
Only Manchester today was over 200 and it had its best numbers in weeks.
Yes even Wigan was below 200!
The GM total today was its lowest in many weeks at 1404 - 147 down on yesterday despite more cases nationally today.
That is nearly 1200 less than 4 days ago and 998 less than 3 days ago.
But it was not just GM. The total was still 50% of the NW as everywhere else regionally was low again too.