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Oldham now has the highest coronavirus infection rate in the country

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Oldham now has the highest coronavirus infection rate in the country.The proportion of people in Oldham infected in the last week is around seven times higher than it was during the spike which took place in the summer.There were 781.1 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people in the week up to November 2, ahead of Blackburn with Darwen where the rate is 720.8.No other Greater Manchester borough has had more than 700 cases per 100,000 people in any single week since the start of the Covid pandemic.But six boroughs in the region now have the highest infection rates nationally with Wigan, Salford, Rochdale, Bury and Bolton all featuring in the top 10.On Monday, there were 3,024 positive tests across Greater Manchester – the first time there have been.

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