Stick to outdoor spaces message from Wiltshire's Public Health chief
We're being asked to not be complacent this Easter weekend
As we are now able to meet up with friends and family outside in gardens or public spaces in groups of six, Wiltshire's Public Health Director wants us to not be tempted to go inside other people's homes.
Kate Blackburn is urging us to keep sticking to the rules as the virus spreads a lot more when people gather indoors.
With temperatures dropping slightly this weekend, we should continue staying outside to see other people.
Those gathering in private gardens can go inside homes to use the toilet, but that is it.
Kate says that by sticking to the rules now, we will be able to see each other indoors sooner.
She told Greatest Hits Radio:
"It is lovely that people can see each other outside, I think it's been a really hard winter and I think we all really benefit from seeing our friends and family but we've really got to do it in a way that is safe and that doesn't put at jeopardy the vaccination programme by increasing our case rates and so it's really about having at the forefront of your mind social distancing and also not going inside, we know the risk of transmission for the virus is so much greater if you're in an indoor environment, if you're outside and two metres socially distanced you really reduce that risk of passing on the virus.
We know the virus is transmitted through the air and when you're inside you have less ventilation so there's much more opportunity for the virus is build up and to pass onto each other so it's so so very important to be outside. The road map is there to have a very cautious relaxing of restrictions to enable us to get to a point where it's actually safe to do the things we want to do again, I think we all have to have long term memories at this point and think about what we've just been through, through this winter, just how quickly cases went up when people were able to mix indoors for just one day at Christmas we saw our highest case rates exactly two weeks after Christmas, we really don't want to be in that situation again."
Parents are also being warned about sleepovers and with children off school for two weeks, they are being urged to not be tempted to let them stay round their friends houses.
Wiltshire Council say a number of them during the October half term last year contributed to a rise in cases.