Last post until after the match.
This was the day that North West overtook London with the most cases.
23,842 (up from 20,183) V 10,960 last week.
London was as flat as it has been for a week now on 22,727 - down from 22,981 V 27,799 ;ast week.
South East is still rising though - up on 19,849 (its highest ever). East also highest ever on 16,995, Yorkshire highest ever on 13,345, West MIdlands highest ever on 12,927 and East Midlands highest ever on 11,721.
Indeed the combined Midlands region of those last 2 which the NHS uses but GOV UK splits in two is actually now higher than both London and the North West.
Soth West on 10,227 - first five figure total here and even North East more than doubled in the week to 5247
As for Greater Manchester - Wow! Though huge at 40.1% of the North West it is the lowest split in a week or more as Merseyside is now shooting up too.
9575 cases in GM - new record. It was 8662 yesterday & 4687 last week.
THREE boroughs top 1000 again.
Manchester over 2000 on 2083, Wigan a huge rise on 1235, its highest ever and Stockport on its highest ever 1187.
Moreover Stockport became the first GM borough (and as far as I know frst ever in the UK) to hve a Pop Score rise of OVER 400 in one day! Extraordinary,
Bolton and Bury had the two 'lowest' scores - 574 and 528 respectively.
And Salford's 943 took it up by 358 to become the first GM borough to enter the 23K club.
Bolton up by only 199 as you can see took over 200 points off Stockportin one day! To be the only one still in the 20K club - likely until tomorrow and now 744 in the lead over Stockport after being behind 10 days ago!