The Manchester Evening News reports that political tensions are simmering as Oldham battles to avoid lockdown. Manchester itself could break through the 50 cases per 100,000 level by the end of the week – placing the city in the ‘red alert’ bracket. Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, is opposed to Oldham going into lockdown, saying he would like no new restrictions on Oldham beyond those already in place. He sent out a tweet last night with data showing that cases are coming down. In the week ending the 8th of August, there were 109.7 per 100,000 in Oldham: in the week ending the 15th cases were down to 83.1 per 100,000.
Data from the Digital.nhs.uk ‘Progression dashboard’ is more up to date. It shows Oldham at the top of the dashboard with 70.5 cases per 100k for the week of the 11th to the 17th August. Looking at it another way, the numbers mean that 0.0007 of
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