Why East Lancs residents should keep their face masks lancashiretelegraph.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lancashiretelegraph.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
THE leaders of a local authority have urged people to follow their example and get jabbed twice to prevent a new spike in coronavirus infection.
Blackburn with Darwen Council leader Cllr Mohammed Khan and its chief executive Denise Park say getting everyone fully immunised it the only way out of the pandemic and its restrictions. Their plea comes after 320 new cases were recorded in the borough last weekend meaning there were 22,975 people so far who had been confirmed as testing positive for Covid-19 by 9am on Monday. This was a small spike after new case numbers had begun to fall steadily after a sharp rise in May and early June.
Government advice on travelling and socialising in Lancashire in full lancs.live - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lancs.live Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Denise Park. EAST Lancashire residents have been advised to exercise extra caution about mixing with people outside their household to avoid spreading coronavirus.
Blackburn with Darwen Council chief executive Denise Park issued the warning after the government announced a strengthened package of support for the county to combat a rise in the Delta variant of Covid-19 first identified in India. Ms Park, who chairs the Lancashire Resilience Forum, said residents need to take care to avoid new restrictions coming in. The support package includes additional testing capacity, a ramping-up of the vaccination programme, support from the military, door-to-door visits, supervised in-school testing, enhanced contact tracing and jabs for all over-25s.