has at times jumped up by as much as 8 percent week-on-week.It means that the number of people contracting Covid-19 is not falling in the way it is elsewhere, despite weeks of lockdown measures.Public health bosses have several theories for why this might be, including a high proportion of people who need to leave their homes to work, increased testing and the increased presence of a new strain of the virus.
But, for people who live in Bolton - a borough that once had the highest rate of infection anywhere in the country - it is yet another blow to the hopes of an end to lockdown.