IT’S amazing what a bit of sun can do to lift a county’s mood. Having been blasted by floods, snowstorms, and high winds over the past winter, it feels like this week was the first inkling of spring in Cheshire. Spring is often associated with hope and new beginnings, and that feeling has been strengthened by the government’s announcement of the end of lockdown ‘roadmap’. We could be back to normality by June 21, should data allow and there’s been a real sense of optimism among Cheshire’s political and health leaders this week that the county has turned a corner in its Covid-19 fightback.
Ian Ashworth (right) is CWAC s Director of Public Health INFECTION rates in Cheshire West continue to move in ‘a positive direction’ but need to drop further before some lockdown restrictions are eased. Those are the views of two senior council officials, providing an update on the borough’s pandemic response yesterday (February 24). Chief Executive Andrew Lewis said: “Things are moving in a positive direction and the level of infection is continuing to reduce but our teams are still hearing about 400 cases every week. “It is like a game of whack-a-mole when the outbreaks pop up we can bash them. At the moment, there’s too many moles.
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Clare Watson is part of the NHS body running the roll-out, with Sam Corcoran praising their efforts THIS weekend, the Prime Minister is working on the English ‘roadmap’ out of lockdown. This ‘roadmap’ will set out how Covid-19 restrictions are lifted, and how the economy will be restarted and will be revealed to the public on Monday, February 22. Although it’s thought that the re-opening of classrooms is the government’s top priority in the plan, Boris Johnson has said he is focusing on ‘data, not dates’, leading to a ‘cautious and prudent’ approach so that any relaxations are ‘irreversible’.