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Warning over lockdown behaviour as Lincolnshire hits national rate of infection Infection rate spiking in Lincoln, Boston and the coast | Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite Lincolnshire’s rate of infection is now in line with the national average, sparking warnings from the county’s health bosses. The latest seven day average, from November 5-11, put both the England rate and the county at 253 per 100,000 people. On Thursday evening, the Greater Lincolnshire region saw a record 873 coronavirus cases confirmed in a single day, with a record 33,470 across the UK as well. However, North...

| Photo: Steve Smailes for The Lincolnite Those responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in Lincolnshire have admitted they were caught by surprise by this weekend’s lockdown announcement. Lincolnshire County Council’s director of public health Derek Ward said the lockdown could have been shorter had it been enacted sooner. “It [took us by surprise] a little bit in terms of timing. It was something we’d been looking at as public health body, but it all happened very quickly over the weekend,” he said. “It will make quite a bit of difference to the country, more so to Lincolnshire. But ...

McCartney Way or Lincoln Eastern Bypass (A15)? | Photos: Lincolnshire County Council / Steve Smailes / Collage: The Lincolnite The Lincoln Eastern Bypass will open this weekend at long last, and Karl McCartney MP, perhaps in jest, said it should be named after him for all the effort he’s put into enabling the project. The £120 million single carriageway bypass opens during the weekend of Saturday, December 19, connecting the existing northern relief road with a new roundabout on the A15 Sleaford Road. The project has been a long time coming, with planning permission first submitted way bac...

Lincolnshire is having a “bleak midwinter” as the coronavirus death toll soared, local health bosses said. Over the past seven days, 94 of Lincolnshire’s 651 deaths – nearly 15% – have mentioned COVID-19 on the death certificate. At the end of November the county’s average weekly deaths had risen by nearly 60% on the previous year — from 175 to 275. The figures are part of a Christmas Carol style warning, with Lincolnshire County Council’s director of public health professor Derek Ward playing all three ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future: “behave over the festive p...

Long term COVID-19 patients to get specialist help at North Lincolnshire hospitals One of just 69 trusts in England to be picked Staff working on ward 29 at Scunthorpe General Hospital. Photo: NLaG Hospitals in Grimsby and Scunthorpe have been picked to offer specialist support to patients suffering with long term symptoms of COVID-19. New research has found that one in five people who test positive for the virus develop longer symptoms, with around 186,000 people nationally suffering problems for up to 12 weeks, according to the Office for National Statistics. North Lincolnshire and Goole NH...