Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the reproduction rate for covid-19 was in the Greater Manchester area on (a) 6 September 2020, (b) 20 September 2020, (c) 4 October 2020 and (d) 20 October 2020.
The published growth rate, or ‘R’ number, for England and the North West regions is available on GOV.UK at the following link:
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-r-number-in-the-uk#other-key-statistics
Estimates of growth rate for geographies smaller than regional level are less reliable and it is more appropriate to identify local hotspots through, for example, monitoring numbers of cases, hospitalisations, and deaths.