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
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