Salford has twelve new confirmed cases of coronavirus bringing the total to 1,417, up from the previous day's 1,405.
Elsewhere in Greater Manchester, Manchester has a total of 3,135 cases (up from 3,113), followed by Wigan with 2,167 (up from 2,163), Oldham 2,022 (up from 1,993), Bolton 1,945 (up from 1,942), Rochdale 1,819 (up from 1,812), Stockport 1,692 (up from 1,683), Tameside 1,578 (up from 1,566), Trafford 1,361 (up from 1,349), and Bury 1,322 (up from 1,314).
There were no new virus-related deaths at Salford Royal Hospital.
Meanwhile, the latest COVID Symptom Study app, run by ZOE and King's College London, which has over four million people reporting on symptoms throughout the country and is endorsed by the Welsh and Scottish Governments plus a host of age and health charities and organisations, has Salford in its top ten COVID Symptom Study Watch List based on statistics up to 23rd July.
The Watch List features the top local authority areas which have the highest estimates of symptomatic COVID, and Salford is seventh in the list (behind Blackburn with Darwen, Wrexham, Rotherham, Kirklees, Blackpool and Bolton) that shows 0.18% of the population with symptomatic COVID based on almost two and a half thousand of the app users in the city.
"We are now starting to see the figures in the North creep up week on week" says Tim Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King's College London "The numbers are still very small so we can't say with 100% certainty that COVID is increasing significantly but it does make us focus on those areas.
"To understand if these increases are significant or not, we need as many people as possible in these areas to be logging in the app" he adds "So we are calling for people living in the North, to download the app and get logging, as without them, it will make spotting any real hotspots accurately much harder..."
To read more about the COVID Symptom Study and to download the app – click here
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