People are urged to minimize travel to and from the Liverpool City area as a new support package is announced to combat rising Covid-19 rates.
The government has announced that all boroughs in the Liverpool City Region – Liverpool, Wirral, Knowsley, Sefton, St. Helens and Halton – will receive further support in dealing with the Delta variant.
This support includes shock testing, tracking, isolation support, and maximizing vaccine uptake.
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However, new guidelines are also being issued to curb the flow of infection, e.g. B. Minimizing travel to and from the affected areas.
Additional assistance is rapidly being provided in a large number of areas including Birmingham, Blackpool, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, the Liverpool City area and Warrington.
This support is led by local authorities who are offered a range of assistance.
This support includes:
– Additional resources to assist local authorities with testing, logistics, planning, and manpower to assist with testing, home visits to interact with local residents, and other activities. These can come from the Surge Rapid Response Teams, military aid, or other sources as needed.
– Wastewater test samples are prioritized for sequencing
– Technical communication support to raise awareness and focus engagement with disadvantaged groups
– Maximize vaccine uptake by expanding existing channels, developing new capacities and increasing local and targeted communication to reach different communities;
– Supervised in-school testing and discretionary reintroduction of face coverings in school common areas and classrooms when they and public health directors deem it appropriate;
– Surge tests and improved contact tracking; and
– Improved surveillance (genomic sequencing, genotype assay tests).
The government hopes testing, isolation and vaccinations will help suppress and control the spread of the virus and its variants in the short and long term, when used in combination with people who use existing guidelines such as hands, face, space and fresher Air follow.
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The infection rate in Liverpool has risen to 124 cases per 100,000 people in the past few days – more than 600 cases were recorded in the past week alone.
Other districts like Sefton are not far behind.
The support package comes after Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram and the other metropolitan area leaders urged the government to provide more vaccines and help stem the wave of infections here.
Health and Welfare Secretary Matt Hancock said, “We are doing everything we can to stop the spread of the Delta variant and, in collaboration with local authorities, we are providing a stepped-up package of support in areas where variant cases are increasing.
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“We know this approach has had a real impact in South London and Bolton, where we’ve seen it stall the rising cases
“I urge the people who live in these areas to get tested, sign up for your vaccine as soon as you are eligible, and make sure you get the important second vaccination – this is how we will defeat this virus.”
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