Lancs Live : "We have a rising tide of community spread with our higher rates not due to a single large outbreak as in Kirklees or Herefordshire. "Our rise in rates is largely being driven by household clustering where a single person is infected and then the whole household of four or five members are then also being infected."We are establishing a Covid-19 Prevention Zone across the borough.
This will involve a range of additional measures and interventions to reduce the community transmission that we are seeing. This will involve some universal measures affecting everyone and some targeted measures addressing specific risks."If the rates are continuing to rise we will consider reversing the national lockdown lifting measures in Blackburn.
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