Huge changes have been made to lockdown in Lancashire today, with some areas brought out of lockdown and others forced to accept even stricter restrictions.
View email online | | | | | | | | | Aug 21, 2020 | | | | | | | | Good evening, Despite today's announcement that some towns are to see local restrictions lifted, it seems likely that more parts of the county will head towards 'local lockdowns 'as cases of Covid-19 rise in certain areas. Here in Lancashire, we still have multiple places under restrictions and there are even more over the border in Greater Manchester. And yet, still we are hearing tales of illegal raves, parties and smaller gatherings taking place in areas where they have been temporarily banned. And while people have been fined, the punshment is usually derisory. We all understand the frustration of not being able to visit the places we did before in the numbers we did, but despite social media commentary to the contrary, it is unlikely that the Government would be deliberately holding back economic recovery if there was not a good reason for it.
And that reason has not gone away.
People are still dying from Covid-19, albeit not in the huge numbers we saw in April, and if we want to keep those numbers as low as possible, then all of us have to make sacrifices. We’ve come this far together - surely we can all put up with restrictions for a little bit longer? Let me know your views by emailing be at gillian.parkinson@jpimedia.co.uk Take care, Gillian Parkinson Editor | |
| | | | | | | This is everything you need to know about the changes made to lockdown in Lancashire today | | | | | | | | Huge changes have been made to lockdown in Lancashire today, with some areas brought out of lockdown and others forced to accept even stricter restrictions. | | | | | |
| | | | | | | | | | | | No change to Preston's partial lockdown as public health boss issues new message | | | | “Don’t mix or we’ll be in a fix” – that is the mantra which should guide everyday life in Lancashire as the county’s battle to contain the spread of coronavirus continues. |
| | | | | | | | | Tributes to three-year-old Chorley toddler who passed away from rare cancer | | | | Loving tributes have been paid to a three-year-old girl described as a “funny, crazy, caring little girl” by her heartbroken parents. |
| | | | | | | | | Preston city centre to get Covid testing facility in push to get more people without symptoms tested | | | | A new Covid community testing centre will start operating in the heart of Preston from Monday (24th August), as the city's residents are once again encouraged to get themselves tested - even if they do not have symptoms of Covid-19. |
| | | | | | | | | Lancashire MP reveals which two areas will come out of local lockdown from today | | | | An East Lancs MP has confirmed that two areas of the county will come out of local lockdown from today, whilst other areas face further weeks of restrictions. |
| | | | | | | | | Coronavirus in the North West: This is every confirmed case in the North West on Friday, August 21, 2020 | | | | Another 250 people have tested positive in the North West, bringing the region's total number of cases to 50,706 as of Friday, August 21, 2020. |
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