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Professor Chris Whitty said that the health and wellbeing of coastal residents has ‘long been neglected and overlooked'
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The Director of Public Health for the Isle of Wight joins other health chiefs on the Island who have spoken out about problems with capacity at the drive-in testing site
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At one stage in January, hundreds of new positive tests were being reported each day and more were reported in that one month alone than in the entirety of 2020
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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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Islanders are thanked for helping to keep the level of Coronavirus on the Island one the lowest across the nation, but urged to not become complacent with social distancing measures
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The warning comes as people are turning to different ways to protect themselves against the latest strain of Covid-19 which is 70 per cent more transmissible
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The Chair of the Scrutiny Committee explained that he'd been advised to travel to Lewisham to get a Coronavirus test.
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Ahead of No Smoking Day's 40th anniversary, Islanders receive strong support to quit
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Four weeks ago(!) News OnTheWight asked if the 178 people in IW care homes who had contracted Covid-19 was on top of Public Health England numbers. Still no answer. The answer is important - It’ll have a big impact on understanding infection rates. Here’s the saga so far
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Due to the demand for testing on the isle of Wight a pop-up drive-through testing centre will be in operation from Friday and the Newclose testing centre will open for longer
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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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It's been a week since the first case was confirmed
