Half of our care homes have been hit by the virus FIGURES BOROUGH BY BOROUGH

NEARLY half of care homes in Greater Manchester have reported outbreaks of coronavirus.

There were 254 suspected or confirmed Covid-19 cases reported in care homes in Greater Manchester between March 9 and May 10.

Government data shows that 45 per cent of the 566 care homes in our area have had cases of the virus.

There were seven new suspected or confirmed outbreaks in care homes in the area in the week ending May 10. That was down from 11 newly reported the week before, and down from a peak of 66 reports in the week ending April 12.

Across England, a total of 5,546 suspected or confirmed coronavirus outbreaks have been reported in care homes.

In our region, Wigan had the highest number with 64pc of residential homes reporting cases, followed by Tameside with 58pc and Oldham with 57pc. Rochdale had the lowest rate with 36pc of care homes reporting outbreaks. This data comes from reports to Public Health England of infectious disease outbreaks in residential and nursing homes.

BOLTON Cases: 21 Care homes with cases: 37pc New cases*: 0

BURY

Cases: 22 Care homes with cases: 39pc New cases*: 0

MANCHESTER Cases: 36 Care homes with cases: 39pc New cases* 1

OLDHAM Cases: 25 Care homes with cases: 57pc New cases*: 0

ROCHDALE Cases: 21 Care homes with cases: 36pc New cases*: 2

SALFORD Cases: 20 Care homes with cases: 44pc New cases* 0

STOCKPORT Cases: 31 Care homes with cases: 48pc New cases*: 0

TAMESIDE Cases: 22 Care homes with cases: 58pc New cases*: 1

A care home will only be included in the dataset once and if a care home has reported more than one outbreak, only the first is included in those figures – it’s not possible to know from the data if the reported outbreaks are still ongoing.

In the week ending May 10, 418 new outbreaks were reported – that

TRAFFORD Cases: 21 Care homes with cases: 37pc New cases*: 2

WIGAN

Cases: 35

Care homes with cases: 64pc

New cases*: 1

*in week ending May 10 Based on PHE data

was a drop from 699 a week before. However, while most regions saw falls, in the south east, the number of suspected or confirmed outbreaks being reported rose from 103 to 118

Care homes in the north east appear to have been hardest hit by Covid-19 – nearly half (48pc) have reported an outbreak.