Rochdale’s infection dropped quite significantly after you brought targeted measures in - but what were the main challenges in the borough as rates began to spike?“The main challenges were the same for everybody in a lot of areas that had higher infection rates or did at that time,” says Ms Fallon.“We are a borough with a lot of challenges in terms of deprivation and that brings with it a whole host of things.
And we also have a higher population in the south Asian communities, so there are communities there who have language barriers and some cultural barriers.“But predominantly what we found was that lots of issues at the beginning (of the pandemic) were around deprivation.