The Covid situation in Oldham isn't as bleak as some reports would suggest, bosses insist as they highlight positive case figures
direct to your inboxBosses say Covid-19 cases in Oldham have been dropping week-on-week since the start of the third lockdown, despite recent figures suggesting infections were beginning to increase.The council confirmed that its latest weekly data – the seven days from January 24 to 30 – showed there were 570 cases in the borough, down from 605 the previous week.The local authority had been named in the national press as one of four areas of England where weekly infection rates had increased.It came after the government’s weekly coronavirus dashboard reported there had been an increase of nine new cases in the borough in the week to January 28.But Oldham bosses say that while the numbers of new cases can fluctuate across the rolling weekly