Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Nearly 1,500 students and staff at Manchester College’s Nicholls campus are being urged to get Covid tests after an outbreak of 17 cases in one class.
The cases were identified on Friday and have now been sent off to confirm whether they include the Indian variant B.1.617.2, which is currently driving big rises in infection rates in Bolton and elsewhere.
Today two mobile testing units have been deployed to the college’s campus on Hyde Road in Ardwick, which remains open, with around 1,300 students and 80 staff now being encouraged to get the PCR tests.