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Isle of Wight council leader says he fears the Coronavirus variant may have already reached the Island as new case rates are increasing rapidly
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So long as Isle of Wight residents and visitors continue to do the right thing, it's hoped that the Island will remain in Tier One when the review is announced next week
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The message is ‘do what you should rather than what you could’ in order to stop the spread of Covid-19 over the festive period
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Women are being affected more than men with Long Covid symptoms relating to lungs, heart, exhaustion and more
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As well as the national Test and Trace programme, contact tracers with local knowledge are now in force on the Isle of Wight
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Who will get the first Covid vaccine first and which parts of the Island also revealed last night. Details within
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Announced in November by the Department for Health and Social Care, local directors of public health can request the lateral flow tests after the initial scheme proved useful in trial areas, like Liverpool
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The Director of Public Health for the Isle of Wight said, “We do not want to be looking back in January and wondering what more we could have done”
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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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Trying to make sense of the reduction in the cumulative total of positive Coronavirus tests, News OnTheWight looks back through the age breakdowns to work out what's happening
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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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News of a possible vaccine for Covid-19 was discussed at a council meeting this morning with details of how the vaccination programme would be rolled out across the Isle of Wight
