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Around 7,000 new people in Suffolk have joined the Covid-19 shielding list
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Thousands more people are set to be added to Suffolk s Covid shielding list - with another 7,000 likely to join 7,000 already added days earlier.
That would make 14,000 new additions to the list in total, after new categories for those considered clinically extremely vulnerable were unveiled by the government earlier in the week.
Friday s meeting of the local outbreak engagement board gathering of community leaders was told of the figures, with new categories for shielding based on a live algorithm called QCovid.
Chrissie Geeson from Suffolk County Council said an additional 14,000 people in the county were expected to join the Covid-19 shielding list
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Mr Evans said the council and partners in the Suffolk Resilience Forum continued their planning efforts despite that, partly based on the flu pandemic plan.
However, the council s report to scrutiny revealed that an influenza outbreak plan did not envision national lockdowns , meaning many of the challenges were new entirely.
Cabinet member for the environment and public protection, Richard Rout, added: With the gift of hindsight, which we all wish we had, at the early stages we were led by Public Health England and central government advice and guidance.
Suffolk County councillor Sarah Adams
- Credit: Archant I think we can all say now that advice at the time was usually preceded by press statements and announcements, and it wasn t perhaps as timely as would have been the case with the gift of hindsight.
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