direct to your inboxLockdown has put more people at risk of ‘falling to the bottom of the pile’ once the coronavirus pandemic is over, a council public health specialist has warned.Anthony Threlfall told a meeting of Rochdale’s Covid engagement board that ‘new inequalities’ created by Covid-19 could have a devastating impact on some residents’ lives.He said that restrictions had been ‘necessary’ - and without them Rochdale would have seen ‘way over’ 2,000 deaths from the virus.But he acknowledged the measures had also ‘caused a lot of harm’, resulting in a ‘widening of inequality’ in society.“The pandemic will soon be over but we will still be in a crisis management situation where we really have to think very, very carefully about.