Blackburn with Darwen announces emergency measures to prevent coronavirus local lockdown

Blackburn with Darwen has introduced extra lockdown measures including a limit on the number of people allowed to visit a household after a rise in Covid-19 cases.

The Lancashire authority’s director of public health Dominic Harrison announced the new measures on Tuesday, to be followed for the next month with the aim of avoiding a local lockdown.

The restrictions include a limit of two people from the same household allowed to visit another home.

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