Mar 16, 2021
MORE THAN 20% of the island’s adult population under 65 have been classed as having a medical condition that puts them at increased risk of morbidity or mortality from Covid-19.
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Key worker Elma Costa from Q3 disinfecting and cleaning the doors to the Community Vaccination Centre at Beau Sejour. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 29340144)
Covid-19 community vaccination centre. (Picture by Sophie Rabey, 29340146)
Picture by Sophie Rabey. (29340150)
They make up the largest group in the vaccination priority list, and they are the cohort which are currently being immunised. Many islanders have queried why the list is so large.
Mar 14, 2021
NON-EMERGENCY operations were disrupted for about 13 weeks during 2020, but capacity was restored by the end of September, the Medical Specialist Group has said in its report on the last year.
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Health & Social Care medical director Dr Peter Rabey said the response to the coronavirus pandemic had had a profound impact on services. (Picture by Sophie Rabey, 29329593)
But waiting lists, particularly for orthopaedic surgery, grew and the report said it was impossible to predict when numbers will revert back to pre-pandemic levels.
While at the end of 2019 there were 390 patients on the orthopaedic in-patient waiting list, at the end of 2020 it was 596.
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