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Bolton now a vaccination hotspot but fears over Indian Covid variant continue to grow Long queues form at mobile and pop-up vaccination centres as GPs urge people in Lancashire town to attend regardless of age 18 May 2021 • 7:00pm Thousands of people in Bolton have received Covid vaccinations after warnings that the Indian variant of the virus is driving a steep rise in infections in the Lancashire town. Long queues formed at mobile and pop-up vaccination centres, with local GPs urging people to attend regardless of their age as fears grew over the spread of the mutation. A vaccination bus at the Essa Academy, one of a number of pop-up units in Bolton, issued 3,072 vaccines on Sunday alone – thought to be the largest daily number given at any centre in the country since the start of the vaccines programme. ....
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 ....
In the town of Bedford, locals are concerned they could be plunged into another local lockdown amid a surge in Covid cases caused by the more infectious Indian variant. ....
Face masks likely to stay in classrooms as schools set to defy guidance UK s largest teaching union writes to headteachers and council chiefs, urging them to ‘actively encourage’ pupils to wear coverings 14 May 2021 • 3:50pm Dozens of schools around the country have said they will continue to require face masks until May half term (in a few weeks) when they will undertake a review, while others have not given an end date Credit: Kirsty O Connor/PA Wire Face masks are set to stay in the classroom as schools and councils prepare to defy government guidance, The Telegraph has found. Bury, Bolton and Bedford are among the councils advising that schoolchildren should continue to wear masks, despite Boris Johnson announcing that this is no longer required from Monday. ....