Liverpool's health chief has suggested a reason for the increase in coronavirus cases in Princes Park.
At the end of last week, it was revealed that the Princes Park council ward area had seen a worrying rise in infections.
Urgent new guidance was issued and an emergency coronavirus testing centre was put in place to deal with the outbreak.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Liverpool's director of public health, Matt Ashton said their local-led plan will avoid the need for a national lockdown.
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Mr Ashton said: "This is not a national lockdown, this is a locally-led imposure of measures to try and control the virus at an earlier stage and therefore avoid the need for a national lockdown...
"I don’t think we have trust in the national system for people to tell us what we need to do.
"Therefore we are much more likely to have success if we lead this locally, if we use our community champions and community leaders, our faith leaders and our volunteers, and use people who actually understand the area, live and work in the area and get the message across that way.
"Even then its going to be a tough act."
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Mr Ashton said he believes the increase in Princes Park may have been caused by 'multi-generational transmission'.
He added: "The issue we've got is that we think this is a multi-generational transmission.
"We think its young people coming into small, but multi-occupancy houses and spreading the virus that way."
