Covid-19 Update
Recorded cases of coronavirus have increased in North Somerset, with infection rates increasing more quickly in particular parts of the area.
The Public Health, licensing and food and safety teams have been providing focused support to the affected communities to make sure measures are in place to reduce the risk of further transmission.
As well as stepping up visits to settings in the area, which included the villages of Abbots Leigh, Pill and Easton-in-Gordano, to give advice and support, we also diverted our mobile testing unit. This offers rapid no-symptom testing to help find people who may be infectious with Covid without any symptoms.
105 new cases have been identified in the latest seven-day period reported for North Somerset compared with 38 in the previous week. Our case rate per 100,000 head of population has increased to 48.8. This compares with a South West figure of 46.7, and an England rate of 75.2.
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