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Bolton has the unenviable title of capital of the Indian variant outbreak. Cases in the town are running at about 200 per 100,000 - with Erewash in Derbyshire next highest on 163.
Ministers plan to vaccinate entire households where Indian variant takes hold to stop Covid spreading
Ministers are sending in Army to help with drive to target multi-generational households in affected areas
More than 4,000 people were vaccinated by Covid jab bus in Bolton, a worst affected areas, yesterday
Boris Johnson warned the Indian variant poses risk of disruption to the end of social distancing on June 21
Updated: 16 May 2021, 0:27
MINISTERS are pushing to vaccinate one million people a day within weeks to save the British summer amid fears the Indian Covid strain could scupper reopening.
Meanwhile Covid hit squads will reportedly go door to door offering jabs to whole households in infection hot spots in the North West.
A first jab is administered at a temporary vaccine centre in Bolton
The government is putting its hopes in the vaccine rollout after pressure from some scientists to rethink plans to lift almost all social distancing rules on June 21.
By using a stockpile of 3.2million vaccine doses, daily jabs will be ramped up from around 500,000 to 800,000 within a fortnight.
BOLTON North East MP Mark Logan has called for everyone in the borough over the age of 18 to be given a coronavirus vaccination before the end of the month. As the town s Covid-19 infection rate rockets to more than 10 times above the national average, the Conservative MP says vaccination is the only way to stop hospitalisation and death from the virus. The call comes as cases of the highly infectious Indian variant have been discovered in Bolton. Mr Logan said: “We must aim to vaccinate Bolton before the end of May. Over the last year Bolton has been living under a form of lockdown for longer than almost everywhere else in the country.