Covid Indian variant: Where is it, how does it spread and is it more infectious?
B.1.617.2 is dominant in some parts of the country – but it doesn’t have to be cause for panic yet. …
In Bolton, the most concerning area, 289 cases have been analysed in the past week according to the Wellcome Sanger Institute, which is carrying out genetic surveillance of the virus. There were 110 cases identified in the past week in Blackburn, 99 in Sefton and 69 in Bedford (this is almost certainly an underestimate of how many are actually circulating).