Extra Covid support announced for South West amid rising cases
Lest you thought covid was mainly an urban thing – this surge in the rural parts of the South West provides pause for thought, particularly as many of these places don’t have extensive treatment facilities close to hand. This story tells us:
Secondary school and college pupils will be required to wear face masks in communal areas outside of their classrooms in areas of the south west of England in response to a surge in coronavirus cases.
Starting Friday, Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly, Devon, Plymouth and Torbay local authority areas – which have seen an uptick in cases – will get help to increase vaccine and testing and deliver more public health messaging, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said.
Although schools will resume from next week as planned, students in secondary schools and colleges will need to wear face masks in communal areas after the guidance was scrapped on July 19.