coronavirus as an overwhelming success. Professor Dominic Harrison, director of public health at Blackburn with Darwen Council, said 'nine out of 10' people who couldn't be traced by the national NHS Track and Trace programme had been contacted via the local scheme.Blackburn and Darwen has a number of local lockdown measures in place after a spike of cases there.Latest figures, released on Friday showed there were 117 new infections but the numbers had fallen from 86.8 per 100,000 population to 78.2 per 100,000.When the authority began local contact tracing it said it was working in partnership with Public Health England on a "locally supported contact tracing system for the borough."Get the latest updates from across Greater Manchester.