September 2020
Leaked report : NW England ‘never left the epidemic stage’ of Covid-19.
A confidential report by Public Health England that was leaked to the Observer newspaper suggest that the coronavirus lockdown had limited effects in parts of the north west of England. It also claims that the virus may now be firmly established and endemic in those areas. The study links higher concentrations of Covid-19 with issues of poverty, crowded housing and ethnicity.