Health Secretary Matt Hancock has been warned that there is the danger of civil unrest if Bolton is placed under regional lockdown again. As England prepares to get rid of all legal restrictions to curb the spread of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus on Jun 21, there’s the possibility that the Indian variant—which some experts say may be 50 percent more transmissible than the UK variant—can delay the date. Hancock said on Wednesday that 2,967 cases of the variant have now been identified. The government is hoping surge vaccination and surge testing can snub out the outbreaks, but ministers did not rule out the option to push ahead with the reopening while keeping some areas under restrictions in an echo of the controversial tiered system introduced in 2020. Greater Manchester town of Bolton is currently one of the few areas where the Indian variant has become dominant. When asked if he told Hancock there would be …
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