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Lockdown restrictions could be tightened in Blackburn and Pendle in east Lancashire, Inzy Rashid at Sky News is reporting. Currently both areas are subject to “enhanced measures”, along with Greater Manchester and parts of West Yorkshire, which restrict gatherings in homes and gardens.
BREAKING: Understand government is to hold Gold Command meeting looking at implementing tighter restrictions in #Oldham #Blackburn & #Pendle to limit social contact. They have some of the highest #COVID19 cases in UK. Announcement expected tonight or tomorrow morning. @SkyNews pic.twitter.com/3rECiKBGZ5
Here someone, maybe a younger household member has become infected and may be asymptomatic. They will unknowingly pass it on to other household members and as an older member gets symptoms the whole family gets tested and find out they are all positive. A very large number of the remaining cases in the borough are clustered in very small areas, in a number of streets, statistically at a ‘lower super output area’- of about 1,500 people. Here it is clear that transmission must be occurring between family, friends and neighbours.
So far, despite our best efforts, we still have amongst the highest rates of transmission in the country. We had our highest rate of cases per 100,000 of the population in the week ending August 12 We have had a Covid confirmed case rate of 94.7 per 100,000 of the population – which represents 141 cases per week. Our testing rates are still about double the national average at 210 per 100,000 and our positivity rate is at 6.5 per cent. This is also the highest it has been in recent weeks.
If we are going to avoid a full lockdown by central government we now need to be even more prescriptive on what can and can’t be done, to target the behaviours we know risk passing on the virus and to move to a stricter enforcement approach to breaches of the guidance.
Shapps said the decision to change the travel corridors took a range of factors into account, including:
A range of factors taken into account when JBC & Ministers assess Travel Corridors - including but not limited to: estimated prevalence of COVID-19 in a country; the level and rate of change in the incidence of confirmed positive cases; the extent of testing in a country (1 of 2)
(2 of 2) The testing regime and test positivity; the extent to which cases can be accounted for by a contained outbreak as opposed to more general transmission in the community; government actions; and other relevant epidemiological information.
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