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3:59 PM January 29, 2021
The Queen Mary Centre in Wisbech will also host a public exhibition on the Wisbech incinerator proposals on October 2 2020. Picture: ARCHANT
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The Queen Mary Centre in Wisbech is one of a number of sites being set up across the county offering rapid tests to key workers and people who cannot work from home.
The testing centre launches on Thursday February 4 and the site will be open 8am to 8pm Monday to Saturday.
Cambridgeshire County Council and Peterborough City Council have been allocated 100,000 tests in the next six weeks, with the potential for the pilot to be extended.
Rapid Covid-19 testing for key workers to begin across Cambridgeshire
Anyone over 18 who has to work outside the home is being urged to take the tests twice a week to help stop the spread
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Rapid testing is being rolled out across Cambridgeshire (Image: Peterborough Council)
Around one in three people who are infected with Covid-19 have no symptoms and could be spreading the disease without knowing it.
As a result, rapid testing for key workers and anyone unable to work from home will launch across Cambridgeshire next week in a bid to help track cases of Coronavirus and drive down transmission rates.
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6:00 AM January 27, 2021
Cambridgeshire s public health director Dr Liz Robin to retire at the end of April
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Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s director of public health will retire at the end of April, after delaying her plans so she could continue to lead public health through the challenging winter period.
Dr Liz Robin, 60, became the first joint director of public health for Cambridgeshire and Peterborough in 2015 and originally planned to retire in January. My successor will be joining a fantastic team, which has worked tirelessly to support communities across the area to prevent the spread of Covid-19 infection, and to bring outbreaks under control when they occur, she said.
“In education there are concerns about who will be included in the following prioritisation of vaccination cohorts after the first four have been dealt with.”
Mr Medd replied that since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic “a significant multi-agency approach to communications and engagement has been implemented within Fenland”.
He said regular updates had been provided to both elected members and the public.
He said the council uses press releases, its website, social media and “individualised resident correspondence where appropriate” to get over their messages.
There had also been ongoing communications with businesses where Government business support grants are concerned, and public statements made by the director of public health, Dr Liz Robin”.
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