'Young people are the big thing' - what's really happening with Manchester's Covid infection rate
hereThe city’s mortality rate remains below the English average and well below the north west average.Until a fortnight ago, meanwhile, the rolling average for cases in the city since mid-March had been solidly mid-table for the ten boroughs, pretty much bang on the Greater Manchester average.Its cumulative infection rate - in other words the number of cases recorded per 100,000 people since the start - stands at 621, around the average for the north west.So by no means cheerful, but not what some had feared.Some of that may have been down to the city deciding in the early days to test people on discharge from hospital before they were returned to their care home - despite government telling them not to - as well as a coordinated approach