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- - Lockdown rules are changing today in Bolton and across the country
- - This is despite concerns over the Indian variant and Covid rates in Bolton
- - The town's latest Covid weekly rate is currently 12 times the national average
- - But deaths and hospitalisations from Covid remain extremely low nationally
- - Matt Hancock said yesterday that the majority of people being treated for Covid in Bolton "could have had the jab" - but had not done so
- - More updates here from across Bolton today
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