Holidaymaker who ignored 14-day quarantine rule partly responsible for Bolton surge, says council leader

19.09.2020 - 14:50

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Bolton was partly responsible for the area’s “extreme spike” in coronavirus cases, the council leader has said. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Saturday, Bolton Council leader, David Greenhalgh, said the Greater Manchester borough’s high rate had been linked back to pubs in the town and a “cohort of people” who refused to follow guidance.The Conservative councillor said: “We had somebody who did not adhere to quarantine, did not stay the 14 days, literally went on a pub crawl with a number of mates.“From that incident which took place over a weekend – (they) visited a number of premises – led to a large number of individual transmissions from that one person which you can imagine then is like holding back the tide because he.

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Holidaymaker who ignored 14-day quarantine rule partly responsible for Bolton surge, says council leader

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