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image captionNorth Yorkshire Police says house parties, particularly on the Scarborough coast, have been one of the main breaches of Covid regulations
A police force says it is dealing with house parties every night of the week in the Scarborough area during the coronavirus lockdown.
North Yorkshire Police said it had fined 92 people at illegal indoor gatherings in the resort out of a total of 160 callouts across the county.
Supt Mike Walker told the Local Resilience forum people were plain wrong and think they won t catch it .
Mr Walker said those breaking the rules were putting lives at risk.
BUSINESSES in North Yorkshire planning on taking part in an illegal anti-lockdown campaign dubbed ‘The Great Reopening’ have been warned they face £1,000 fines. The illegal social media movement is urging non-essential businesses to defy lockdown rules by reopening their doors this Saturday in a nationwide act of civil disobedience. It’s unclear who is behind the movement and if any businesses will take part, but police and health officials have warned they will take “ultimate action” against those who do. Richard Webb, corporate director of health and adult services at North Yorkshire County Council, said he hopes local businesses will ignore the campaign.
Here s how many Covid rule-breakers have been fined across County Durham, Teesside and North Yorkshire MORE than 2,500 people have been fined for breaching Covid-19 restrictions across the North-East since the start of the pandemic, according to the latest figures. The numbers, published today by the the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), reveal that a total of 2,600 Covid fixed penalty notices were issued across the Durham, Cleveland and North Yorkshire force areas between March 27 and January 17. This period covers all the national lockdowns and tier restrictions imposed by the Government since the start of the pandemic. North Yorkshire Police accounts for the vast majority of fines issued in the region, with 1,963 handed out.
THE NHS has confirmed more than 100,000 coronavirus vaccine doses have been given out in North Yorkshire and York in the first official figures for the region. The figures were revealed by Amanda Bloor, accountable officer at NHS North Yorkshire Clinical Commissioning Group, who also confirmed the county hit its target of offering all available care home residents and staff the jab by the end of last week. Speaking at a briefing this morning, Mrs Bloor said: “We have done 107,752 vaccinations in North Yorkshire and York since the programme started in December. That’s a significant chunk of people and really testament to the hard work of those vaccination teams that have stepped up so quickly and responded to the challenge.”