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As we head into summer, it is great news that community rates of Covid-19 remain low locally, although a cluster of cases on a farm has pushed up the numbers in the county recently. While the latest lockdown has helped tackle the surge of cases over winter, locking...
Spring is finally here, after a winter that has felt incredibly long, with the country in lockdown and unprecedented stresses on the health service. Covid-19 rates have fallen substantially from the peak of 386 cases per 100,000 we saw in January, following the...
Coronavirus cases in Herefordshire are at an all time peak, with huge pressure on our local hospitals. Household mixing at Christmas will have played a part in this, and we are now expecting to see a reduction in cases following the subsequent lockdown. It has been...
As ever, things are changing rapidly around Covid-19 and our response. The new variant of Covid is more transmissible, which is leading to a significant rise in cases and a lot of pressure on health services, leading to this further lockdown. It is more important than...
Following a huge logistical effort involving GPs and nurses from six surgeries in the South & West Herefordshire Primary Care Network, supported by an organised team of local volunteers, the first Covid-19 vaccination programme in Ross-on-Wye was finally completed...
The start of the Covid-19 vaccination program is a huge milestone, potentially the start of the tide turning against this awful virus that has killed 62,000 people so far in the UK, and 1.5 million worldwide. Local GP practices are due to start vaccinating in...
