9,000 households told to get tested in Leicestershire neighbourhood after spike in coronavirus cases
More than 9,000 households in Oadby and Wigston in Leicestershire have been told to get tested for coronavirus.
It’s after the borough became the area outside of the city with the highest infection rate.
Residents are now being given a leaflet and being sent texts from their GP, telling them to get tested - whether they have symptoms or not.
The latest data shows that the infection rate is much higher than the county average and on a par with Rotherham and Bradford - both areas that have been rumoured to be at risk of going into their own local lockdown.
Oadby and Wigston Borough Council's leader, John Boyce, said: "No one in the borough is more frustrated with being in lockdown than me."
Yesterday, the leader of the County Council, Nick Rushton, said he’d lobby the Health Secretary to release all of the county areas included in the lockdown zone - apart from Oadby and Wigston.
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