Young people are fuelling the coronavirus outbreak in Preston as around half the new cases reported last week were people aged under 30.
The Lancashire city of 140,000 was placed under localised restrictions last week with officials issuing a “don’t kill granny” plea to young people in the area.
A ban on separate households gathering in each other’s homes and gardens coming into effect on midnight Friday August 7. In the week up to August 5, Preston saw a doubling of the infection rate from the previous week from about 21 cases per 100,000 to more than 42 per 100,000.
With 47% of those new infections recorded in people aged under 30, officials are trying to persuade younger people that the virus is still deadly and poses a huge threat to