Like the rest of the country North Tyneside is in a race against the ‘Delta variant’ of Covid-19. Our task is to get second jabs to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible. Last night I attended the Council’s Overview and Scrutiny Committee. This meeting brings together a dozen or so councillors whoContinue reading “Access to second covid jabs”
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The Lockdown That Wasn’t
When this week’s news cycle began nobody knew that a political storm would break over North Tyneside. In my last post, written on Friday, I explained that a new Coronavirus ‘variant of concern’ had been identified here in North Tyneside. At that point we had already arranged for local surge testing to be deployed, inContinue reading “The Lockdown That Wasn’t”
Variant Of Concern
Just when we thought we were almost out of the Coronavirus woods, up pops a “variant of concern”. For the last year I’ve been tracking the Council’s response to Covid very closely as deputy chair of the Covid-19 Engagement Board. As I’ve said before, sterling work by our local Public Health team, NHS and otherContinue reading “Variant Of Concern”
Beating Coronavirus Together
Today I attended the monthly Covid-19 Engagement Board, which is chaired by the Mayor. The engagement board was first formed a year ago as a response to the acceleration of the Covid-19 pandemic, with the recognition that a long-term coordinated response was required. To ensure that the board was established with democratic accountability baked-in theContinue reading “Beating Coronavirus Together”
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