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Greater Manchester has seen an increase in coronavirus cases today, although the overall infection rate continues on a downward trend.
2,587 positive results were added on Thursday, the latest figures show.
That’s a sizeable increase from yesterday’s increase of 1,811.
However, there is often a spike in the numbers on Thursday due to the lag in the weekend numbers.
Overall, the region’s infection rate continues to decline in nearly all counties and is now 504 cases per 100,000 residents.
That compares with 260 cases per 100,000 people on average in England.
Only Rochdale has seen a slight increase in cases today of 3 percent, while Trafford remains about the same.
The other districts are seeing a drop in positive results: in Stockport by as much as 19 percent.
It comes as figures released by NHS England showed that another 46 people died in Greater Manchester hospitals after contracting the coronavirus.
The death toll is now 3,126.
A further twelve deaths were recorded by Manchester University Foundation Trust and Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust in the last 24-hour reporting period.
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust recorded another seven deaths, and Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust reported another six.
Both the Stockport NHS Foundation Trust and the Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust recorded three other deaths.
The MEN reported tonight on the pressures facing our hospitals: The Pennine Acute NHS Trust recorded more 12-hour waits for an ER bed than anywhere else in the country last month.
The trust, which is run by Royal Oldham, North Manchester General and Fairfield General, represented one-sixth of those experienced nationally.
The situation is understood to have been particularly dire at the Royal Oldham, which serves a municipality that has had consistently high rates of Covid infection for months, a situation that is now shifting to hospitals.
The figures were described as “enormously worrying” by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Katherine Henderson, president of the university, said she was “shocked and alarmed.”
“Despite our repeated calls to action, the crowding and attention in the corridors is back and they have to stop,” he said. “It is a dangerous and unsafe situation that puts enormous pressure on staff and departments and now increases the risk of hospital infection for patients.
“We simply cannot leave patients for hours in crowded hallways without social distancing, which makes infection prevention control measures impossible; potentially exposing them to infections. “
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