How Bolton became the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic in England
manchestereveningnews.co.ukupdated figures from Public Health England show that Bolton is the first place in the UK to record a weekly rate of more than 200 new cases for every 100,000 people.And yet, residents who are showing symptoms are still struggling to access the tests they have been told they must take.From the online failures which sent people miles from home to mobile centres in key infection areas failing to arrive, the entire testing project appears to have created confusion.One concerned Bolton mum told theM.E.N.
she had pushed her young child in a pram for more than a mile from where she lives in the Tonge Moor area of the borough to the Moor Street testing centre in the hope of getting a test, only to be turned away and told the location she had headed.
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