Bolton step up door knock testing and offer 4,000 vaccine jabs in fight against Covid Indian variant

BOLTON has stepped up its fight against coronavirus this weekend amid a surge in cases after the spread of the Indian variant.
Council teams have been to homes in Deane, Great Lever and Rumworth to hand out testing kits to residents in efforts to track Covid-19.
The surge testing has been going on in the BL3 area for a week now following a rise in the borough's infection rate.
Bolton Council's director of public health, Dr Helen Lowey, said: "It's really important that people take the test, even if they don't have symptoms.
"We want to stop the spread of the virus, we want to be able to contain it.

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