Published:
8:35 PM December 18, 2020
Local contact tracing for Covid-19 in Suffolk had been 93% successful in November, according to Public Health Suffolk
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Contact tracing teams in Suffolk successfully identified more than 1,000 people at risk of spreading Covid-19 last month, according to latest data - with a success rate of more than 93%.
In November, Public Health Suffolk s contact tracing team worked with 403 positive Covid-19 cases and identified 689 contacts from those cases.
It equates to 93.3% success rate for local contact trace methods, which have helped curb the spread of the infection where the national NHS test and trace service has been unable to.
Published:
7:00 PM December 18, 2020
Updated:
9:44 AM December 19, 2020
The new strain of Covid-19 has been recorded in Ipswich, according to Public Health Suffolk
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A new strain of Covid-19 outlined by health secretary Matt Hancock earlier this week is in Ipswich, it has been confirmed.
Public Health Suffolk director Stuart Keeble confirmed in Friday s local outbreak engagement board meeting that the new variant, called VUI-202012/01, had been identified locally.
Public Health Suffolk director Stuart Keeble urged people to observe social distancing as the new strain of Covid-19 could spread more rapidly
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He said: They identified a new strain of the virus, originally in and around the Kent and south east area.
Published:
7:00 PM December 18, 2020
Updated:
9:44 AM December 19, 2020
The new strain of Covid-19 has been recorded in Ipswich, according to Public Health Suffolk
- Credit: Charlotte Bond
A new strain of Covid-19 outlined by health secretary Matt Hancock earlier this week is in Ipswich, it has been confirmed.
Public Health Suffolk director Stuart Keeble confirmed in Friday s local outbreak engagement board meeting that the new variant, called VUI-202012/01, had been identified locally.
Public Health Suffolk director Stuart Keeble urged people to observe social distancing as the new strain of Covid-19 could spread more rapidly
- Credit: Archant
He said: They identified a new strain of the virus, originally in and around the Kent and south east area.
Published:
7:00 PM December 18, 2020
Updated:
9:44 AM December 19, 2020
The new strain of Covid-19 has been recorded in Ipswich, according to Public Health Suffolk
- Credit: Charlotte Bond
A new strain of Covid-19 outlined by health secretary Matt Hancock earlier this week is in Ipswich, it has been confirmed.
Public Health Suffolk director Stuart Keeble confirmed in Friday s local outbreak engagement board meeting that the new variant, called VUI-202012/01, had been identified locally.
Public Health Suffolk director Stuart Keeble urged people to observe social distancing as the new strain of Covid-19 could spread more rapidly
- Credit: Archant
He said: They identified a new strain of the virus, originally in and around the Kent and south east area.
Published:
4:55 PM December 18, 2020
Key worker priority testing sites for Covid-19 are to be established in east and west Suffolk, Public Health Suffolk has said
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Expanded priority testing of key workers introduced in Ipswich is to be rolled out in the east and west of the county.
In October, Public Health Suffolk confirmed the government had
That featured a new priority testing service being formed, and will now be expanded to sites in east and west Suffolk to help key workers in the districts.
Richard Cracknell from Suffolk County Council said: The team are expanding our offer of our local priority testing service, offering testing site locations in both the east and the west of the county, which will be in addition to the site location in Copdock in Ipswich.