Covid-19 testing centre FORTY-FIVE temporary council workers are set to be recruited or have their contracts extended to help manage any further local outbreaks of Covid-19. Since June 2020 Bolton Council has been allocated £7.76m from central government as part of the public health test and trace service support grant and the contain outbreak management fund grant. The purpose of the grants is to provide support to local authorities in England in respect of the expenditure incurred in fighting outbreaks of the virus. In a report to councillors Helen Lowey, Bolton’s director of pubic health gave details of how the money has been allocated as part of Bolton’s Outbreak Management Plan.