As much of Britain opens up post-lockdown, Bolton is trying to deal with an outbreak of the Indian variant with a mass vaccination programme.

Yazmin Qureshi, Labour MP for Bolton South East tells Bloomberg Westminster's Caroline Hepker and Roger Hearing working conditions and multi-generational households have worsened the situation there, making it harder to use testing and isolation.

Professor Christina Pagel, from University College London and a member of Independent Sage, joins to discuss the contagiousness, potency and morbidity of the new variant and the wisdom of going ahead with the reopening of the economy at this point.

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