For the latest news from in and around Wigan sign up to the MyWigan newsletter here A Jobcentre has been closed for a 'deep clean' after reports that there has been an increase in Covid-19 cases among staff.
Multiple staff members at the Jobcentre Plus in King Street, Wigan, have become ill with coronavirus which they believe to have caught at work, the Manchester Evening News understands.
Staff members' contracting the virus are also believed to have spread it to members of their family, furthering the 'outbreak' The rise in cases comes amid complaints, shared with the M.E.N.
by anonymous sources, that the workspace has not been adequately equipped with protective equipment such as screens and hand sanitiser during the course of the