CALDERDALE Council has warned that the area is at ‘critical risk’ amid a rise in cases and hospital admissions. In a statement today, the council’s leader Cllr Tim Swift described “growing pressure on the hospital” and urged residents to protect themselves and others by staying home. Residents must stay home except for essential reasons such as food shopping, exercise within the local area and medical appointments. The leader said: “COVID-19 cases are rising rapidly in Calderdale and there is growing pressure on the hospital. We are at critical risk if we don’t step up the action we’ve been taking in recent months.
Here s what Cllr Phil North had to say this month Happy New Year! I say that with cautious optimism because despite the bleak news of the more transmissible strain of Covid and the New Year, new tier, there are reasons to be cheerful. Thanks to the rollout of the vaccination programme, which started in Test Valley before Christmas, and now with the new AstraZeneca vaccine given the go-ahead, I’m hopeful that 2021 will be much brighter. Indeed, when I spoke to the Director of Public Health for Hampshire on Christmas Eve, he confirmed that both the new AstraZeneca and the current Pfizer vaccine could start to be rolled out simultaneously. Speeding up the immunisation programme.
The new tougher restrictions came into force just after midnight this morning.
Leader of Somerset County Council David Fothergill says: “In the last three weeks in Somerset the number of Covid-19 cases has almost trebled, rising from 473 cases per week to 1,299.”
“In the most recent week, the rate of new cases increased by more than a third (37 per cent). Tier 4 restrictions are tough but very necessary if we are to get back in control of our rising rates and cases.
“We’ve just heard the new Oxford vaccine has been approved, so the vaccination programme will gather pace but now is not the time to be complacent.”
CHRISTMAS is just days away and the rules have once again changed. Last weekend, Wales brought the level 4 restrictions forwards, meaning it faced restrictions the equivalent of a lockdown. This was due to the rising levels of coronavirus and a new variant of Covid-19 was found. As a result, the five-day Christmas relaxations were scrapped and just two households can mix on Christmas day only.
Here is everything you need to know if you are forming a Christmas bubble , according to Welsh Government:
Forming a Christmas bubble Christmas bubbles are different to normal extended households and have their own specific rules.
Department of Health update shielding advice for Clinically Extremely Vulnerable people
They remain extremely vulnerable to this virus and the safest option is not to form a Christmas bubble
Chief Medical Officer Dr Michael McBride (Image: Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye)
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