A COVID-19 tracing service set up by Hampshire County Council is playing a vital role in protecting our communities . The local service has been established to support the NHS test and trace and help stop the spread of the virus. Local authorities across the UK have been working with NHS Test and Trace to organise Local Tracing Partnerships, which combine national scale and data with local knowledge.
How it works:
When the NHS Test & Trace service is unable to reach people who have tested positive (cases) within its usual timeframes, local call handlers will take over.
The local call handlers will then attempt to make contact with cases to gather details of their close contacts. This will done via text messaging and a call from a local number 01962 826982.
Here is the second part of our Review of the Year:
JULY A WINCHESTER woman has been crowned the winner of this year’s Great British Sewing Bee. Clare Bradley beat stiff competition and impressed judges Esme Young and Patrick Grant to be awarded the title in the BBC One show. Upon being announced as the winner, she said: “I feel really surprised. Crikey. I do hold myself to high standards and because other things I have gone in for are things I have trained for like exams and more exams - this was something I did for fun.” The streets are bustling, the shops are filled – and for the first time in 13 weeks, Winchester’s pubs, cafes and restaurants are open, but not as we have known it.
A DEVELOPER’S hopes for a huge new town south of Winchester have been dealt a blow. The Chronicle reported last week that a planning document stated the 5,000-home scheme had the support of the county council, claimed in a public document called a SHELAA, the Strategic Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment. SHELAA is a ‘wish list’ of sites available to be developed, and a statutory requirement for local authorities to produce. Cllr Keith Mans, leader of Hampshire County Council, said the developer is wrong to say the county has given consent for the use of its farmland near Compton for an access road into Royaldown: “I wish to stress that there were no discussions between the county council, as the landowner, and the developer relating to permissions. While peripheral queries about highways access, for example, may have been answered, I must state categorically that there was absolutely no permission given for any development on the land in question.
Tier 4 restrictions
Non-essential retail, indoor gyms and leisure facilities, and personal care services to close
Work from home if you can but you may travel to work if this is not possible
Those who are extremely clinically vulnerable are advised to stay at home at all times, unless for exercise or medical appointments, and not to attend work, even if they are unable to work from home
Do not enter or leave Tier 4 areas, and Tier 4 residents must not stay overnight away from home.
Individuals can only meet one person from another household in an outdoor public space. Councillor Keith Mans, the leader of Hampshire County Council and chair of the Local Outbreak Engagement Board, said: “Central Government has confirmed that the whole of our local authority area will be under Covid-19 Tier 4 restrictions, from 31 December.
THE surge in Covid-19 in the Winchester district is continuing. Today s figure of new cases reported this evening was 90; on December 26, 104, on December 27, 57, December 28, 56 and yesterday, 84. In the last five days 15 per cent of the total number of cases since last March have been reported. Yesterday the previous four days was 12 per cent of the total. Only in Stanmore are the numbers so low that it is marked green on the Government s interactive Covid map. District cases since last March is currently 2,611, with an infection rate of 1,907 per 100,000 people as of Sunday. Today’s infection rate for Winchester was unavailable. The national infection rate is 3,713 per 100,000.