Public Health England (PHE) has published its new Local Authority Watchlist showing council areas with the worst incidences of coronavirus, and Salford is placed 12th worst area in the country, compared to last week's 11th position.
Based on statistics from tests taken between 31st July and 6th August, the seven day moving average shows 171.8 people per 100,000 population were tested in Salford, with 33 people per 100,000 population testing positive for the virus. This is up from the previous week's calculation of 25.2 people per 100,000 population testing positive for the virus (see here), and works out roughly at 430 people per day tested with 11.7 per day testing positive.
The moving average weekly statistics are always around five or six days behind but there's no doubt that the case numbers are going up. The latest data for Salford shows 24 new virus cases in the last two days (see previous Salford Star article).
Within the Local Authority Watchlist, Pendle is the worst area in the country with an incidence rate of 89.7 per 100,000 population, followed by Oldham with 82.3. Even though published yesterday these figures are already out of date as we know that Oldham is the worst area in the country with an incidence of 108.8 (up to 8th August) as revealed by Andy Burnham at his press conference on Thursday (see here).
Above Salford on the list from Greater Manchester are Rochdale (37.3), Manchester (34) and Tameside (33.3).
Main graphic shows latest weekly rate of cases per 100,000
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