BOLTON has emerged as the new UK hotspot for the Indian Covid variant as infection rates double and surge testing begins. Urgent measures to contain the variant are being out into place in the town…
The plea for surge testing in Bolton comes as it was today revealed that 48 clusters of theBolton Council’s Director of Public Health, Dr Helen Lowey, said: “There is no evidence these variants cause more severe illness, there is some evidence that the Indian variant spreads more easily than other Covid-19 variants so it is the one that we want to stop and contain.
“These measures are designed to bring the virus under control, but there are basic things we can all do to stop covid spreading. Surge testing centres with Lateral Flow Device tests have been set up in venues including a Hindu temple, in addition to a large Polymerase Chain Reaction site.Of the 315 local areas in England, 87 have seen a rise in rates, 214 have seen a fall and 14 are unchanged.
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