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Dec 2020
Last Updated: 20/12/2020
Yorkshire Showground prepares for vaccination programme
Signage has been put up for the covid vaccination programme at the Yorkshire Show Ground. Today the district saw 13 new coronavirus cases.
Signage has been put up at the Yorkshire Show Ground for a covid-19 vaccination programme that starts this week.
The government has asked the 17 GP practices in Harrogate and the surrounding district, including Ripon, Knaresborough, Boroughbridge, Pateley Bridge and Masham to oversee the vaccination rollout. The NHS though has been unwilling to release more detail.
Figures published by Public Health England today show there were 13 new positive cases for covid in the district in the past 24 hours. The district has a 7 day average of 92 cases per 100,000.
There have been no further covid deaths of patients who tested positive for covid at Harrogate District Hospital.
North Yorkshire remains in tier 2 covid restrictions.
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Yesterday new tougher restrictions were imposed over the Xmas period.
Up to three households can meet indoors but only on Christmas Day, rather than during December 23-27 as previously announced.
A new tier 4 with stricter restrictions has been created for people living in London and areas of the south-east.
Have the changes meant scrapping your Xmas plans? Email us contact@thestrayferret.co.uk
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