Matt Hancock 'does not rule out' local lockdown in Bolton
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukFor all the latest news from in and around Bolton, sign up for the free MyBolton newsletter Matt Hancock has signalled the Government would be prepared to implement a local lockdown in Bolton if one was needed to protect people.
Mr Hancock replied “we do not rule that out” when asked about the prospect of specific areas having different restrictions compared to the rest of the country to deal with the risk posed by Covid-19 variants.
He told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge On Sunday: “The approach we’re taking in Bolton and Blackburn is to absolutely pile in testing and vaccinations to try to get on top of this. “When we had an outbreak of the South African variant in south London last month we put in a huge amount, hundreds of thousands of tests
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