NHS hospital in Bolton begs patients seeking Covid-19 tests to stay at home

NHS hospitals in Bolton, Plymouth and Liverpool have urged patients seeking coronavirus tests to stay away from their A&E departments after they turned up to ask for swabs as the UK’s Covid-19 testing crisis leaves hundreds unable to get checked for the virus. Bolton NHS Foundation Trust said it had seen nearly 100 people come … Read more

No tests available in Bolton or ANY of the 10 Covid-19 hotspots in England

No walk-in, drive-in or postal coronavirus tests are available for people with symptoms of the disease in England’s 10 outbreak hotspots, it was claimed today. Swabs are not available in Bolton, which is fighting the largest outbreak of the virus in the country with an infection rate of 122 cases for every 100,000 people. The … Read more

No tests available in Bolton or ANY of the 10 Covid-19 hotspots in England

No walk-in, drive-in or postal coronavirus tests are available for people with symptoms of the disease in England’s 10 outbreak hotspots, it was claimed today. Swabs are not available in Bolton, which is fighting the largest outbreak of the virus in the country with an infection rate of 122 cases for every 100,000 people. The … Read more

Coronavirus: Ibiza clubber thought to be behind Bolton case spike

A 23-year-old Ibiza clubber is suspected to be behind Bolton’s coronavirus case spike after he failed to isolate when he returned from a lengthy holiday on the Spanish island and then threw a party for his friends.  Construction worker Layton Migas, 23, spent six weeks sunning himself on the Ibiza island Es Vedra before returning … Read more

Coronavirus: Ibiza clubber thought to be behind Bolton case spike

A 23-year-old Ibiza clubber is suspected to be behind Bolton’s coronavirus case spike after he failed to isolate when he returned from a lengthy holiday on the Spanish island and then threw a party for his friends.  Layton Migas, 23, spent six weeks sunning himself on the Balearic island of Ibiza before returning to his … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches the Health Secretary announcing the Bolton lockdown 

Head boy Matt Hancock’s touch of Apocalypse Now… for the freshers: HENRY DEEDES watches the Health Secretary announcing the Bolton lockdown By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:34 BST, 8 September 2020 | Updated: 23:00 BST, 8 September 2020 Fans of classic Vietnam war epic Apocalypse Now will doubtless recall Colonel Kilgore – … Read more

HENRY DEEDES watches the Health Secretary announcing the Bolton lockdown 

Head boy Matt Hancock’s touch of Apocalypse Now… for the freshers: HENRY DEEDES watches the Health Secretary announcing the Bolton lockdown By Henry Deedes for the Daily Mail Published: 22:34 BST, 8 September 2020 | Updated: 23:00 BST, 8 September 2020 Fans of classic Vietnam war epic Apocalypse Now will doubtless recall Colonel Kilgore – … Read more

Bolton placed under tighter restrictions as infection rate in area becomes the highest in England

Bolton has been placed under tighter Covid-19 restrictions as the infection rate in the area becomes the highest in England with hundreds of thousands of people banned from mixing and businesses forced to remain closed. Bolton Council has asked for people in the town to avoid mixing with other households and to only use public … Read more

Boris Johnson slammed after U-turn on Bolton and Trafford lockdowns

Boris Johnson was roasted for ‘mess after mess’ in the coronavirus crisis today after the government performed another embarrassing U-turn on lockdowns.  Bolton and Trafford were among a series of areas in the North West due to see restrictions eased today. But the move was abandoned at the 11th hour after a furious backlash from local … Read more

Council leader of locked-down Bolton calls on the government to KEEP Covid restrictions in place

Council leader of locked-down Bolton calls on the government to KEEP Covid restrictions in place after ‘unforeseen’ spike in infections Bolton was due to have its local lockdown restrictions eased from tomorrow  However, infections have soared in the past week from 18.4 per 100,000 to 56.4  Now, council leader David Greenhalgh has called for restrictions … Read more