Lancashire town has already seen five new measures implemented to slow the spread of the virus including the wearing of face coverings in all public spaces.
Professor Dominic Harrison, the local authority’s director of public health, said the borough of 148,000 people was facing a “rising tide” of cases, rather than an outbreak.He explained: "We’ve got a number of cases rising in specific areas across a significant community, but not a single big outbreak like Kirklees or other areas that had a workplace outbreak.“It can have the same effect because it can drive up the cases, but what we are seeing from looking at the postcode data of those cases is, in the last couple of weeks, is a single case being infected, then going back to a.
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