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The coronavirus infection rate has fallen again in Manchester on the day the region avoided tough new local lockdown rules.
Rates appear to be stabilizing in other districts as well, as the Prime Minister issued a warning that they should be lowered.
Boris Johnson today announced a new three-tier Covid Alert Level system in England, with areas designated as medium, high or very high risk.
Despite fears to the contrary, Greater Manchester was designated as high risk and placed at Level 2, meaning all mixing of homes indoors will be banned, but hospitality can remain open.
Although he urged Labor MPs to “persuade the Greater Manchester authorities to enter Level 3”.
“I hope that we can work together to reduce rates in Greater Manchester, which at the moment are certainly worrying,” he said.
But the latest data shows that in the city of Manchester, the number of cases has continued to fall, now by 20 percent week-over-week.
There were 2,479 cases in the week ending October 9, down 623 from the previous week.
As a result, its infection rate also decreased again to 448.4 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Rate hikes in other parts of Greater Manchester also appear to be slowing down the figures suggest.
Although the number of cases continues to rise week after week, it has dropped slightly in recent days.
Currently, the numbers are rising faster in Oldham, where there were 832 cases in the week ending Oct. 9, up 37 percent from the previous week.
Currently, its rate is 350.9 cases per 100,000.
The rate in Rochdale, which has the second highest rate in the region at 363.7, as well as those in Salford, Bury, Bolton and Tameside are stable week after week.
There have been weekly rate increases at Oldham, Wigan, Trafford and Stockport.
But no municipality is seeing the doubling of rates seen in Manchester ten days ago.
Even though the number of cases has declined in Manchester and appears to be leveling off in some other areas as well, it is still too early to say whether this will continue as a downward trend.
Political leaders had pressured the government not to shut down hotel deals in the region, saying the data did not support it.
And today they welcomed the government’s decision to initially place the region at level 2 and not at level 3.
Speaking in the Commons, Manchester Central MP Lucy Powell thanked the Prime Minister for working with local leaders to help Greater Manchester “fight the virus at Level 2”.
While Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham tweeted saying “This is the right decision and we are glad the government listened.”
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