For all the latest news from in and around Bolton, sign up for the free MyBolton newsletter People 18 and over in three wards in Blackburn are being urged to book an appointment for a Pfizer coronavirus vaccine online after the India variant was found in three wards.
The call comes after the B.1.617.2 strain of the virus, often called the Indian variant, was found in Shear Brow and Corporation Park, Billinge and Beardwood and Bastwell and Daisyfield.
Blackburn has the UK's third highest infection rate after recording 90.2 cases per 100,000 - behind Bolton, which has the second highest rate in the UK with 162.4 cases per 100,000.
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