THE three Labour councillors elected to the South Ham ward have spoken out about the need for an increase in safety patrols and improved community facilities following a double stabbing incident which shook the community last month. On Monday, April 26, two people were stabbed on St Peter’s Road and emergency services flocked to the scene - with police cordoning off part of the street and searching a property known to be a bail hostel run by the charity Nacro. A man and a woman were taken to hospital, but their injuries were not thought to be life threatening, while a second man was arrested but later released under investigation.
Only three areas in north Hampshire have seen more than three confirmed coronavirus cases in the last seven days. There were seven confirmed cases in Popley and five in South Ham & West Ham while in Whitchurch and Ashmansworth there were four confirmed cases. In Andover, Tadley, Oakley and Overton, no recorded cases were reported in the last seven days, though for smaller areas with fewer than 3 cases, no data is shown to protect individual identities. Regarding vaccinations, over half of the entire population of the South East has received at least one dose of a vaccine, some 4.7 million people and over a fifth of people in the South East are fully vaccinated.
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A NEW Covid testing site is opening today in Basingstoke after being constructed during the week. The testing site at Churchill Way Long Stay Car Park has replaced The Anvil testing site which closed on Tuesday. Residents with Covid symptoms can visit the site to be tested during the morning and, following a deep clean, it will be open again in the afternoon for collection of test kits for people without symptoms. Testing kits can also be collected from the testing site at South Ham Library, which also offers supervised asymptomatic testing for walk-ins or appointments can be booked on Hampshire County Council’s website.
A NEW local testing site for those with Covid-19 symptoms is being constructed in a Basingstoke car park to replace The Anvil testing site. As previously reported, The Anvil testing site is set to close at the end of the day tomorrow (Tuesday April 6) and prior to now no information has been given regarding a replacement site. The Gazette has tried to obtain information from both the Department for Health and Social Care and Hampshire County Council regarding where people can get a Covid-19 test if they have symptoms, and where they can collect free rapid lateral flow tests. We were told that information would be given “in the coming days”.