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Oct 2020
A quarter of North Yorkshire care homes affected by covid
Almost a quarter of North Yorkshire care homes currently have at least one covid infection.
Richard Flinton, chief executive of North Yorkshire County Council, revealed the situation in a bulletin on Wednesday. He said:
"Despite robust outbreak management plans, we now have more than 55 care homes out of a total of 233 with single cases or outbreaks, and three of those now have a very difficult situation with wider scale infection. This is a serious matter, as you will understand."
The council is due to make an announcement on reopening care homes to some visitors today.
It advised care homes to close during October.
A council spokesman said the announcement was still due to go ahead.
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Mr Flinton reiterated that North Yorkshire's tier one status was hanging by a thread and that people's actions now would determine what happened at Christmas. He added:
"If we are to have any chance at all of staying in this tier, and to give us all the best chance of being able to be with our loved ones at Christmas, we need to step up and stand together as a county and we will explain this in more detail over the coming days.
"In my role as chair of North Yorkshire’s Local Resilience Forum, I am regularly asked when all this will end.
'The answer is unfortunately not as straightforward as the question. In truth, we will need to adapt the way we live for many more months."
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