The town’s health chief has urged people to remain vigilant as the first steps in easing lockdown start today. All school pupils in Swindon and across the country are due to return to school, and care home residents are allowed to have one regular indoor visitor. The borough’s seven-day rolling infection rate in Swindon has dropped to 75.6 per 100,000. But the director of public health Steve Maddern stressed the importance of following the Government’s guidelines to maintain this downward trend. He said: “It is very encouraging. But we still need to be following the rules, although our case rate has gone up and come back down, we are still high as to regional and national averages.”