Bolton in race against time to stop fresh wave of deadly virus
Infection rate has doubled in past week, with vaccine hesitancy and complications over religious observance hampering efforts to slow spread
13 May 2021 • 9:58pm
People line up outside a mobile vaccination centre in Bolton
Credit: Phil Noble/Reuters
Celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid with his family on Thursday, Umar Mogra needed no reminder of the lethal capacity of Covid-19.
In February the virus swept through his family home in the narrow terraced streets of the Rumworth area of Bolton, infecting Umar, a 24-year-old pharmacology student at the University of Central Lancashire, and claiming the life of his 54-year-old father.