Blackburn with Darwen has replaced Leicester as England’s new coronavirus hotspot and could now face a local lockdown.
In the week to last Friday the local authority recorded an infection rate of 79.2 cases per 100,000, while cases in Leicester fell to a rate of 77.7 per 100,000.
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