Wiltshire Council urge residents to stick with government guidance over plans to ease lockdown

And the plea continues, if you are offered a Covid-19 vaccination please accept

Author: Henrietta CreaseyPublished 23rd Feb 2021
Last updated 23rd Feb 2021

The leader of Wiltshire Council has issued a statement after Boris Johnson announced his four stage plan to ease England out of lockdown.

Almost all measures will be eased by June 21st at the earliest.

Cllr Philip Whitehead stressed the local authority will continue to "work to support schools, businesses, residents and our staff to ensure restrictions can be lifted safely across Wiltshire."

That includes supporting schools as they prepare to welcome ALL children back on March 8th.

"We will also be doing all we can to support businesses to ensure that they can safely start to put in place plans to reopen in the timescales set out by the Prime Minister."

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"It is vital that residents carry on following Government guidance as this will help save lives and ensure we can continue to ease social distancing measures and recover from COVID-19. The vaccination programme is progressing well and thousands of people in Wiltshire have already received their first dose of the vaccine."

"It is incredibly important that everyone accepts when they are contacted and makes an appointment to get vaccinated."

Those aged 75 and over, residents in care homes as well as anyone over the age of five who is immunosuppressed are among the cohort who will be offered a further booster

Council bosses are also urging staff at local businesses to continue working from home where possible and is asking residents to only make " essential face-to-face visits to our hubs if you have safeguarding issues that cannot be dealt with over the phone. "

LOCAL ELECTIONS TO GO AHEAD

Cllr Philip Whitehead has also confirmed preparations are currently underway to hold Covid secure local elections on Thursday 6th May.

As well as Wiltshire Council unitary elections, the Police and Crime Commissioner election, town and parish council elections will be taking place.

"Social distancing measures will be in place to ensure people can vote safely but we would encourage people to register to vote by post if they can."

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