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Anti-vaxxers target schoolchildren during protest ANTI-VAXXERS gathered outside a school and vaccination centre in Bolton today to protest as pupils were queuing for coronavirus tests. A group of around 10 protestors gathered on the street outside ESSA Academy in Great Lever this morning - where they shouted at students and handed them leaflets with anti-vaxxer sentiments. The school’s headteacher, Martin Knowles, said that the protestors were there for about an hour on the road outside the school, with placards and a loudspeaker - but left as soon as the rain started. He said: “They were handing out leaflets to our pupils, and they were handing them straight back to us as they came in the gates.
From Monday, residential homes will be given the green light to increase visitors from two to five. But Town Hall chiefs are recommending this does not happen in Bolton as the number of coronavirus cases, linked to the Indian variant continue to rise. The Bolton News understands that every residential and nursing home in Bolton has been contacted urging them to stick to restrictions with a review to be be locally reviewed in a fortnight in the best interests of residents. Cllr Andy Morgan, who runs a care home and is executive cabinet member for adult services, told The Bolton News: The government want to allow five named visitors for all care home residents from Monday.
The Indian variant of Covid-19 is causing a spike in infections, with Bolton heavily affected. Cllr Greenhalgh said: “Yes, our rates of the Indian variant are going up, but while hospitalisations remain low and all evidence points to the vaccine holding, the administration’s message to government is ‘do not lock us down. Do not take us out of the roadmap. “The majority of our cases are in their teens, 20s and 30s. Send us more vaccinations and allow us to vaccinate 18 years-plus now, that is the answer, not further restrictions. “We have been here before. All that will happen is people will travel outside the borough, sometimes 50 yards up the road across a boundary to access hospitality.