BOLTON continues to have the second highest infection rate in the country.

Surge testing has been deployed in Bolton after a cluster of cases of a variant first identified in India was detected.

People living or working in the BL3 postcode area have been urged to get tested, even if they do not have symptoms.

Everyone is being urged to continue to wash hands, were a face covering, maintain social distance and take up the vaccine when offered - as well as following the rules to contain the virus, including not mixing bubbles indoors.

The coronavirus infection rolling rate for each area of Bolton in the seven days to May 3, the latest Government data available.

Rumworth South 36 cases, up 27 - an increase of 300 per cent

Daubhill and Fernhill Gate: 17 cases, up 13 - an increase of 325 per cent

Lever Edge: 26 cases, up 13 - an increase of 100 per cent

Rumworth North: 33 cases, up 15 - an increase of 83.3 per cent

Burnden and Great Lever: 18 cases, up 14 - an increase of 350 per cent

Over Hulton: 5 cases, up 1 - an increase of 25 per cent

Westhoughton East: 4, up 2 - an increase of 100 per cent

Horwich South and Middlebrook: 5, up 3 - and increase of 150 per cent

Smithills: 3 cases, up 1 - an increase of 50 per cent

Little Lever: 4 cases, up 2 - increase of 100 per cent

Astley Bridge and Waters Meeting: 4 cases, up 1 - an increase of 33.3 per cent

Breightmet North: 6 cases, up 4 - an increase of 200 per cent

Gilnow and Victory: 8 cases, down 3

Harper Green: 8 cases, up 6 - an increase of 300 per cent

Kearsley and Stoneclough: 3, no change

Farnworth North: 4 cases, up 2 - an increase of 100 per cent

Central Bolton: 6 cases, up 4 - an increase of 200 per cent

Bromley Cross and Bradshaw: 4 cases, up 2 - an increase of 100 per cent

Heaton and Deane: 13 cases, up1 - an increase of 8.3 per cent

Halliwell and Brownlow Fold: 8 cases, up 6 - increase of 300 per cent

Doffcocker and Moss Bank: 6 cases up 4 - an increase of 200 per cent

Lostock and Ladybridge: 7 cases, up 1 - an increase of 16.7 per cent

Breightmet South and Darcy Lever: Fewer than three cases

Harwood: Fewer than three cases

Tonge: 4 cases, down 1

Hall 'th'Wood: 6 cases, up 2 - an increase of 50 per cent

Highfield and New Bury: 6 cases , down 1