Cases of coronavirus back on the rise in ALL ten boroughs of Greater Manchester

Cases of coronavirus are back on the rise, and have increased in all ten boroughs of Greater Manchester, figures have revealed.

Despite this, they are all still currently lower than the national average. However, also on the rise are hospitalisations with the virus, up 9 per cent week on week.

The news comes just a matter of days before the government pledged to scrap the current Covid travel rules, as the government continues to operate its 'living with Covid' strategy - including scrapping free universal Covid testing for the general public in England from April 1.

Trafford currently has the highest coronavirus infection rate in Greater Manchester, with a rate of 483.2 cases per 100,000 people, in the week ending March 10. Comparatively, the lowest infection rate is in Rochdale, where the rate is 213.7 cases per 100,000 people.

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In Greater Manchester as a whole, the infection rate is now 329.3 cases per 100,000 population, this is still significantly lower than the national infection rate, which sits at 541.4 cases per 100,000 people.

A total of 9,338 people tested positive for coronavirus across Greater Manchester in the week which ended on March 10. The Greater Manchester weekly total has increased by 3664 cases compared to the previous week, which means the infection rate was up 65 per cent in the last week..

Hospital admissions

In the week ending on March 06, a total of 335 patients were admitted to Greater Manchester NHS hospitals with Covid-19. That is 27 more than the week before, a rise of 9 per cent.

On Tuesday March 08, there were 11 Mechanical Ventilation (MV) beds occupied by Covid patients in Greater Manchester NHS