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An aerial shot of Mudeford Quay car park. Picture by Stephen Bath A NEW pop-up testing site has been set up in Mudeford in expectation of more non-essential travel this half-term. Mudeford Quay car park is the latest mobile testing site in the Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch area, with more expected to pop up in popular visitor destinations across Dorset during the week. The testing sites will be in each location for one day and will carry out lateral flow tests. Rachel Partridge, Assistant Director of Public Health for Dorset and BCP Councils said: “Around one in three people with Covid-19 don t have symptoms so with more people going out for non-essential journeys there is a higher risk of them passing the virus on to others they meet.
Care home deaths involving Covid have surged in the BCP Council area MORE than 20 per cent of all BCP care home Covid deaths since the start of last April were recorded in the most recent seven-day reporting period. Figures published by the Office for National Statistics show that in the seven days to January 29, there were 51 deaths recorded in care homes across the conurbation involving the coronavirus. Since early April, when figures were first released on Covid death notifications to the Care Quality Commission, the BCP Council area has recorded 242 care home Covid deaths. This means 21 per cent of the coronavirus deaths in care homes across the three towns were recorded from January 23 up to and including January 29.
St Osmund’s Middle School (top left), Westfield Arts College (top right), Damer’s First School (bottom left) and St Mary s CE VC First School (bottom right) have all confirmed cases of coronavirus. Picture: Google FOUR Dorset schools have confirmed cases of coronavirus, with students and staff self-isolating as a result. Despite schools being closed to most pupils, they must remain open for children of key workers and vulnerable pupils. St Osmund’s Middle School, based on Barnes Way in Dorchester, and Damer’s First School on Liscombe Street in Poundbury, both reported single cases of coronavirus on Tuesday, January 26.