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Forgotten Island: Barra's hidden health care crisis

With its pristine beaches and close-knit community, the small Hebridean island of Barra is often held up as the archetypal rural idyll.
But in recent weeks the 1200-strong community has found itself at the heart of a serious Covid-19 outbreak. Three cases were reported on 13 January and by last Wednesday that number had risen to 50.
On Friday, with the hospital on Lewis reaching capacity, Health Secretary Jeanne Freeman announced that the whole of the Western Isles would move into level four lockdown conditions with immediate effect.
So on Barra there have been no children playing on football fields in recent weeks and only the odd walker can be seen on beaches or in the hills, says local resident Jessie MacNeil. ....

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Outer Hebrides islands put into lockdown as Covid takes hold

Outer Hebrides islands put into lockdown as Covid takes hold
Libby Brooks
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About 1,000 islanders on Barra in the Outer Hebrides are taking a “robust and responsible” approach to being placed in full lockdown from midnight on Tuesday, as a coronavirus outbreak spreads to affect about 16% of the population.
Having kept the virus off the 18 km (11 mile) long island since the pandemic began, there are now 45 positive tests with a further 140 individuals self-isolating.
Although islanders were already observing a voluntary lockdown as the outbreak spread rapidly since taking hold in the second week of January, Nicola Sturgeon announced on Tuesday that the islands of Barra and Vatersay, connected by a causeway, would go into tier 4, the highest level of Scotland’s five levels of Covid controls. The rest of the Western Isles will remain in level 3, indicating the Scottish government is willi ....

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