by County Councillor Mary Evans
Over Halloween with the number of Covid-19 cases increasing across Suffolk, residents must please keep following the guidance to stop the virus spreading. At our regular Monday morning briefing with Stuart Keeble, the Suffolk Director of Public Health, we were advised that most of the new cases in Suffolk now can be traced back to spread within households. Please – let’s all take care to look after ourselves, our families and our communities.
The Suffolk Resilience Forum is reminding people that we all have a responsibility to keep each other safe this half-term and Hallowe’en – the virus spreads when people get together and are in close contact.
In the last month, the weekly number of cases per 100,000 people in Suffolk has increased by 495%:
• 24 September 2020: 8.01 cases per 100,000 people
• 21 October 2020: 47.68 cases per 100,000 people
The guidance we must keep following is to:
• Keep washing your hands with soap and water
• Keep wearing a face covering when required
• Keep 2 metres apart from those you do not live with if you go out
• Keep sticking to the rule of six, indoors and outdoors – and remember that school bubbles do not apply outside school
• Take hand sanitiser if you go out
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