COUNCIL staff are set to visit supermarkets across Colchester to help ensure stores are Covid compliant. The leader of Colchester Council has written to supermarket chiefs across the borough urging them to step up Covid protections, with the borough at a "very dangerous point" in its fight against coronavirus. Praising the work already undertaken by supermarkets, Mark Cory (Lib Dem) has appealed for stores' to step up further to limit the spread of coronavirus in the borough. The council's Covid marshals are set to visit supermarkets to ensure Covid rules are being met. Mr Cory said: "I’m sure you know we are at a very dangerous point, with light around the corner but dark days still to come and a local hospital at breaking point.