Salford has 280 confirmed new cases of coronavirus, bringing the cumulative total to 8,327, up from the previous day's 8,047. While the daily number is seriously high, over the last seven days of data there have been 1,598 cases, down from 1,611, with a case rate per 100,000 population of 617.4, which is down from 622.4.
Elsewhere in Greater Manchester, four other boroughs are seeing a slight decline in rates and case numbers. Cases in Manchester during the latest seven day data period were 2,790 (down from 2,799), with a rate of 504.7 (down from 506.3). Other boroughs stats are Bolton 1,581 (down from 1,601), with a rate of 549.8 (down from 556.8), Oldham 1,599 (up from 1,567), with a rate of 674.4 (up from 660.9), Wigan 2,167 (up from 2,097), with a rate of 659.3 (up from 638), Tameside 1,154 (up from 1,134), with a rate of 509.5 (up from 500.7), Rochdale 1,347 (down from 1,361), with a rate of 605.6 (down from 611.9), Stockport 1,161 (up from 1,155), with a rate of 395.7 (up from 393.6), Bury 1,048 (up from 1,011), with a rate of 548.7 (up from 529.3) and Trafford 1,039 (down from 1,058), with a rate of 437.7 (down from 445.7).
There have been two new virus-related deaths announced by Salford Royal Hospital.
Meanwhile, Dr Hans Kluge, World Health Organisation Regional Director for Europe, says that the state of the health workforce is the "greatest concern" at the moment...
"While in March the critical limiting factors were intensive care units, ventilators and personal protective equipment, today the single issue of greatest concern is the health workforce" he explains "Our health workforce is exhausted, people are burning out. We have no COVID-19 response if we do not care for our health-care and essential workers: their needs and well-being must be prioritized."
He called for compensation for health workers' unused leave or allowing them to carry the leave to the next calendar year; providing additional support services to health workers them and their families, including 'psychosocial support' or child care; and for a more targeted track and trace system....
"My last point is that while supporting an already-stretched health system, we must try to maintain a dual-track health system to minimize the effects of ongoing COVID-19 responses" he says "Adequate resourcing (human and capital), stronger referral mechanisms and alternative service delivery platforms (digital) can all help us to achieve this goal. We need to understand how close our health systems are to being overwhelmed."
While the Greater Manchester virus rates might be in slight decline in some boroughs, the virus is sweeping Europe in the second wave, with the region registering the highest weekly incidence of COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic.
Over 1.5million cases have been reported in the past seven days, and the total number of confirmed cases has increased from seven to nine million in just 14 days. Also in Europe, hospitalizations have risen to spring levels, while deaths have seen a 32% increase in the last week...
"The virus has spread back into older and at-risk groups, and the youth exclusivity in the share of the spread no longer applies" the WHO Director said "Early all-cause mortality signals from some countries give a clear warning: we can quickly recede into significant excess mortality."
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