Glad you said that, as id had a drink before the news came in...
One thing i find interesting in those figures is Manchesters numbers (as in the Borough of Manchester rather than the wider city).
My friend lives in Manchester and i visited her last week. There was next to no one around. She lives in a student area and the place is like a ghost town.
Manchester's population does drop significantly during the summer when students go home as a rule.
Given that its apparently young people driving the infection rates, i think that its not schools that are going to pose the biggest problem in September. Its going to be universities. All the noise has been about schools but i think its university towns that need to be watched.
Now given that Manchester is high on the list in that context, its concerning. Theres been a drive to get people back to work in the city centre but the whole borough (not just the city centre) is quieter than normal.
Im trying to figure out why Traffords numbers might have jumped so much too, when the same isnt true in neighbouring counties. The figures for both Warrington and Cheshire East are down. Why? Its not go a high Asian population unlike a lot of other places high on the list.
To add to the bonkers the MEN is reporting the following now too:
Rossendale in Lancashire was among a number of areas where new rules have been introduced preventing households from meeting each other inside their homes or in gardens following a spike in virus cases.
But figures from Public Health England on the Government’s coronavirus online dashboard show Rossendale had a rate of new cases in the seven days to July 27 of 4.2, compared to 60.2 in Leicester and 54.3 in Oldham which have also been placed under restrictions.