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Know your numbers: Isle of Wight council introduces free loan of blood pressure monitors from libraries
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Although there no evidence that a new strain is circulating, the director of Public Health is urging parents to remain vigilant to signs of children becoming seriously unwell and to seek early medical advice
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If you report Coronavirus symptoms through the Contact Tracing App, here's what happens
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The Isle of Wight council is urging a cautious approach to the removal of Covid restrictions from next Monday
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From fuel poverty and excess winter deaths to social and digital isolation — the health and social care services are ‘struggling’ to deliver what is needed on the Isle of Wight.
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After having been one of the three places in the UK in Tier 1, it’s just been announced that the Isle of Wight has now been placed in Tier 3 from Boxing Day. Here are the details of what it means
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The council are not asking people to put their lives on hold again, but to remember to take those basic precautions that are known work against Covid
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Louise looks at why the Isle of Wight was one of only three places in the country to be placed in Tier One and what needs to happen to stay there
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Islanders were told we were doing something for the country by trialling the App, so why are we now not getting answers to questions of public interest?
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The community rapid testing is available over the next six weeks for people who have a legitimate need to be out and about because they cannot work from home and do not have symptoms
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Cllr Paul Brading explained there had been a spike in the number of positive Covid-19 tests in schools on the Isle of Wight, but that staff were coping well with it
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At the start of September, the Isle of Wight's weekly rate of new infections was 3.1 cases per 100,000 population, but has now risen to 45.39 cases per 100,000
