by admin | Sep 24, 2020 | Covid-19 Update
As autumn arrives, we also move into the season of coughs and colds. These typically start the week before schools go back with people returning from their holidays, peaking after Christmas. This is particularly pertinent this year, as we need to identify cases of...
by admin | Sep 3, 2020 | Covid-19 Update
Community cases of Covid-19 in Herefordshire have thankfully remained low over the summer. There have been localised outbreaks in some workplaces, particularly those involved in food processing, as the virus seems to spread better indoors and in colder conditions....
by admin | Jul 15, 2020 | Covid-19 Update
The outbreak on a Herefordshire farm has reminded us that Coronavirus has not gone away. A very quick and effective response from Public Health was able to contain the situation, but we will inevitably get further outbreaks over time. The key workers on the farm have...
by admin | Jul 2, 2020 | Covid-19 Update
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, swab results for Covid-19 have been processed by different laboratories. We have always had access to the number of positive tests done for Herefordshire in NHS labs, known as pillar 1, but we have not previously had access to...
by admin | Jun 23, 2020 | Covid-19 Update
One of the difficulties throughout the Coronavirus pandemic has been trying to make sense of the varied sources of information, which sometimes can be confusing or conflicting. It is hard to stick within rules if they change frequently. Our best chance of opening up...