For all the latest news from in and around Bolton, sign up for the free MyBolton newsletter Officials in Greater Manchester have been pushing the government to let them vaccinate over-16s in specific ‘high risk’ communities in order to curb the sharp rise in infection rates currently being seen in Bolton.
However, ministers and government advisers are said to remain reluctant to deviate from their plan to vaccinate down the age brackets evenly across the country.
Health figures here and in some other parts of the north affected by persistently high rates in the last year - including Blackburn - have long argued that providing intensive vaccinations in communities with ‘enduring’ transmission would create a kind of firebreak, warding off
Read more on manchestereveningnews.co.uk