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A spokesman said: A single positive case of the Indian Variant Covid-19 strain was detected in Colchester. “This one case was linked to travel from India and all the necessary self-isolation and contact tracing has been completed, swiftly and successfully containing the case.” According to the latest Government figures, Colchester s average infection rate was 19.5 cases per 100,000 people in the week to May 11. This is because there were 38 cases confirmed across the borough during this week. The infection rate has risen but remains at a low level compared with earlier in the pandemic. A total of 13 parts of the borough recorded less than three Covid cases in this week.
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Essex County Council. Photo: ANDRA MACIUCA.
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Essex County Council’s Covid-19 contact tracing service, which operates with the help of partners in city, borough and district councils in Essex, has marked 86 percent of cases closed and 93 percent of contacts traced.
The local contact tracing service was launched in June to support the national NHS tracing service. It originally just supported outbreaks in settings such as schools care homes and businesses.
The national NHS tracing service contacts people who need to self-isolate after coming into contact with people who have tested positive for Covid-19.
From October this year, when the national service had been unable to contact a person, the contact was referred to the county level service. They used use local knowledge and phone calls to contact 86 percent of cases which were referred to them.