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Published on: 18/09/2020 12:30 PMReported by: roving-eye
Sefton Council Leader Cllr Ian Maher has responded to today’s news that the Government has announced new restrictions for Merseyside and Sefton from Tuesday 22 September, in the light of rising numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases across the City Region.
Cllr Maher said:
“I know people will be concerned at this news but with infection rates rising in people of all ages across our communities, it is important that we all make every effort to restrict the spread of the virus and these new measures will support that.
“This means not socialising with other people outside of their own households or support bubble in private homes and gardens. It means pubs, bars and restaurants stick to table service only for food and drink and that these establishments, along with cinemas, have to close at 10pm.”
The new restrictions also mean people should only use public transport for essential purposes such as travelling to school or work, and should not attend amateur and semi-professional sporting events as spectators.
Cllr Maher continued:
“As I have said previously, the Council is really appreciative of all the efforts and sacrifices made by Sefton’s population and the Borough’s business to protect vulnerable people across our communities.
“Now we are relying on our residents and businesses to continue working with us and to follow these new restrictions to prevent tighter measures being re-introduced.
“Since the start of the pandemic, we have been working with our partners to support vulnerable people across the Borough and we are reviewing the measures we have in place to support them, including those people who were previously shielding”
Cllr Maher stressed the need for people to continue with social distancing, follow the guidelines on wearing masks and face coverings and to wash their hands frequently and thoroughly. He also called on Sefton’s businesses to ensure they are protecting their customers and staff by having all the required measures in place, including Test and Trace arrangements at pubs, bars and restaurants, in addition to the newly-announced restrictions.
Earlier this week, Cllr Maher also joined The Metro Mayor of Liverpool City Region and the Leaders of four Cheshire Local Authorities in calling on the Government urgently to deploy more Covid-19 testing capacity in the region.
An immediate increase in testing capacity is now urgently needed to protect the most vulnerable members of the community, ensure that our key workers can continue to work and avoid further local lockdowns, they said.
Cllr Maher added:
“I have written to the Minister in the strongest possible terms to express my disappointment and frustration over the lack of testing in Sefton.
“Testing is vital to helping prevent the spread of coronavirus and we need those people who develop the coronavirus symptoms of a high temperature, a new continuous cough, or a loss or change to their sense of smell or taste, to get a test immediately, for their own safety and the safety of others.
“To make an appointment at their nearest available Test Centre or order a Home Testing Kit, they need to visit www.nhs.uk/coronavirus or call 119.”
Cllr Maher also said it is vitally important that if any Sefton residents are contacted by the Test and Trace programme, they comply with the requests of the contact tracers and stay home if they are asked to do so.
[QUOTE=gazaprop;6743611 The overwhelming majority of testing is a success[/QUOTE]
ROFL. If you consider 14% of tests being returned within the government’s own timeframe a success, then you’re just as deluded as the clown we’ve got running this country.
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gazaprop says:19/09/2020 06:55 PM
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ROFL. If you consider 14% of tests being returned within the government’s own timeframe a success, then you’re just as deluded as the clown we’ve got running this country.
Again there is a context question - the results returned within the Government's preferred timeframe may be at 14% however, what percentage are returned within a time frame that means they do the job or are of use? Do you know the answer?
This is my point - picking something and claiming it is a total failure because it doesn't exactly match the self imposed bench mark.
All the petty point scoring by the left achieves nothing other than to undermine what HMG is trying to achieve. There are many hundreds of thousands of Labour supporters in this country who hang on every word Starmer et al utter - is it patriotic or in the national interest to constantly carp?
This course of action baffles me - it's not as if the left are going to gain power any time soon so, what are they trying to achieve?
This country needs to sing off the same hymn sheet and not have a bunch of whinging lefties howling about failure at every turn.
Again there is a context question - the results returned within the Government's preferred timeframe may be at 14% however, what percentage are returned within a time frame that means they do the job or are of use? Do you know the answer?
This is my point - picking something and claiming it is a total failure because it doesn't exactly match the self imposed bench mark.
All the petty point scoring by the left achieves nothing other than to undermine what HMG is trying to achieve. There are many hundreds of thousands of Labour supporters in this country who hang on every word Starmer et al utter - is it patriotic or in the national interest to constantly carp?
This course of action baffles me - it's not as if the left are going to gain power any time soon so, what are they trying to achieve?
This country needs to sing off the same hymn sheet and not have a bunch of whinging lefties howling about failure at every turn.
So how would you describe this, success or shambolic failure?
Can hardly say it’s those pesky left wing journalists either. Straight from The Times. https://images.app.goo.gl/uNap6vTyFSQ3hsUT6
Again there is a context question - the results returned within the Government's preferred timeframe may be at 14% however, what percentage are returned within a time frame that means they do the job or are of use? Do you know the answer?
This is my point - picking something and claiming it is a total failure because it doesn't exactly match the self imposed bench mark.
All the petty point scoring by the left achieves nothing other than to undermine what HMG is trying to achieve. There are many hundreds of thousands of Labour supporters in this country who hang on every word Starmer et al utter - is it patriotic or in the national interest to constantly carp?
This course of action baffles me - it's not as if the left are going to gain power any time soon so, what are they trying to achieve?
This country needs to sing off the same hymn sheet and not have a bunch of whinging lefties howling about failure at every turn.
I'd say everyone in this country, regardless of political persuasion, is desperate for the government to succeed with testing. And track & tracing. Just to put this nightmare behind us.
However, when the government hands these problems over to the likes of Diana Harding, who has done nothing successful in her life, apart from failing upward, or to firms of accountants, and companies with no experience in the area whatsoever, then failure was inevitable.
Both sides. The Sun: This is the greatest national humiliation since Suez. Health Secretary Matt Hancock told us to get tested if in any doubt.And all the tests in the world are totally worthless without the laboratory capacity to process them. But British labs are now so overwhelmed that tests are being sent to Italy and Germany for processing.
The Mirror: Coronavirus test chaos is due to the Government “sidelining” NHS labs in favour of failing *private firms, say experts. Researchers were told targets could have been hit had the full expertise of hospital pathology units been used.
Instead Health Secretary Matt Hancock put millions into firms without previous expertise and green staff.
Demand is four times higher than the number of tests available yet some MPs have condemned the testing scheme, operated by seven Lighthouse laboratories, as “barely functional”.
Unite union, representing 7,000 *experts in immunology, biochemistry, microbiology and virology, said NHS labs have been marginalised and under used.
A survey of its members found only 38 per cent of NHS labs have been working at full capacity and there is unhappiness at the Government’s snub of long-established NHS facilities.
One technician told the survey “reagents”, which identifies Covid, had been scarce as they were sent to private labs.
The government has failed since April. We were supposed to have 'world beating' track and trace by June. Failed. We were supposed to have 100,000 tests a day by the end of April. Nope. Some private companies have got very rich, and some people are being offered tests a 400 mile round trip away.
Nobody wants failure on this. It's nothing to do with Labour or Starmer. It's about stopping the spread of a virus. Local councils have plans for epidemics. The NHS have plans for epidemics. They've been largely ignored in favour of Deloitte, Serco and all. A shambles.
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