New Milton Advertiser 15th Jan 2021

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Forest hospital to open another Covid ward

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is amazing and I think we are going to hit that 12.3-million mark by mid-February, fingers crossed.” She urged people to go and get the vaccine if they get an appointment, saying: “It’s the thing that is going to save lives and livelihoods.” She admitted being upset at recent videos that claimed hos- pital wards were empty, saying: “Covid is real, it’s scary and it’s dangerous.” Currently Lymington hospi- tal is maintaining most of its normal services and clinics, in- cluding endoscopy, radiology and pre-booked blood tests. Staff have also been chosen to help run a clinic that will assess “long Covid” and its lingering effects on patients. Some non-urgent aspects – such as an eye operation de- partment run by University Hospital Southampton – have been temporarily stopped as staff have been redeployed else- where, such as the expanded community urgent frailty ser- vice. Dr Anderson urged people to stick to the rules, warning the next 10 weeks will be tough. She added: “We really did miss hav- ing our Christmas party here as that is a really good chance for our staff to get together and en- joy themselves, and obviously we couldn’t do that. “I am dreaming currently of being able to give them a really nice summer barbecue and that is keeping me going.”

District faces bigger threat from the new variant, director says

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A SECONDward will be opened up at Lymington hospital to treat the rising number of coro- navirus patients, its clinical di- rector has told the A&T, as she shares concerns how it would cope with a further influx. Dr Rachel Anderson revealed more people are now arriving with Covid-19 having likely con- tracted it or spread it among family members. “Now we are generally see- ing people who have come into contact with family and friends who have then become positive, and that’s because the variant is more easily transmissible,” she said. “We have definitely seen peo - ple whose adult grandchildren who care for them have had it.” She said the low popula- tion density of the New Forest meant it had not been as affect- ed as major cities, such as Lon- don and Birmingham, during the first two lockdowns. But the more contagious variant meant the district now faced a more potent threat. “Our message is generally this is 70% more transmissible than it was before. We are see - ing, in this area, a higher degree of positivity in patients that 19 Fir Avenue, New Milton • Double glaze your whole house

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you have got it you can take steps quickly to isolate at home and then you don’t spread it to anyone else – including your family.” She praised the testing pro- grammes at local care homes, saying outbreaks had largely been curtailed apart from one or two minor incidents. She was also complimentary of the speed of the vaccine roll- out, adding most of her elderly and clinically vulnerable pa- tients had received it. “We’ve already had over 2-mil- lion tests which, quite frankly, on the death certificate up to 1st January but which were registered up to 9th January. There were 18 weekly Covid-19 deaths reported by the ONS in the BCP Council area, which includes Christchurch, bringing the total to 347. Thirteen of the new fatalities were in hospital and four in care homes. Also on Tuesday the number more than 3,000 GPs across the south of England. The letter has been signed by 17 leaders representing 11 organisations in the area in- cluding Paula Hull, director of nursing and allied professionals at the Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, which runs Lymington hospital. The letter asks for people to follow the government’s Hands- Face-Space guidance, saying: “These next few weeks will be the most difficult we have ever faced. That is why we are asking for your help.” That message is repeated on the BCP Council postcard sent to 185,000 households, which explains how serious the pic - ture is locally. Since New Year’s Day, it said, one person has been admitted to hospital with Covid-19 every hour in the council’s area and

likely caught it while treating patients. She called for med - ics and carers to be among the priorities for getting the vac- cine. “It was pretty grim,” she add- ed. “I was really unwell for two to three days, then very tired and exhausted.” Dr Anderson said she dis- played only a cough as a symp- tom and urged anyone feeling unwell to get a test, adding it is simple to book, and the results come back quickly. She said: “The symptoms can start quite mild and if you find

come in and it is going through groups of families more than last time. “It’s worrying because we do not know what way this is go- ing to go, depending on how the vaccine goes, how lockdown works and how people respond. “I would say at the moment we are worried being asked to increase capacity [in the hos- pital] and we have got a lot of staff unwell.” Urging people to stay at home where possible, Dr An- derson revealed she is currently recovering from Covid, having

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New Forest Covid update: nine deaths and 754 infections NINE people with Covid-19 died in the New Forest, according to the latest weekly update, as infection numbers continued to climb. The seven-day number of new positive tests in the New Forest District Council area rose to 754 on Tuesday – up from 547 a week before. of weekly new cases in the BCP conurbation continued to increase, rising from 1,986 to 3,348. That increased the case rate from 502.4 per 100,000 people to 846.9.

It means the district has a case rate of 418.7 per 100,000 people. Last Tuesday the number was 303.7. The provisional figures from the ONS related to instances where Covid-19 was mentioned

The new fatalities, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), included five in hospital and three in care homes, and bring the death toll in the district to 170. Delivery delays after Covid hits postal workers residents are facing postal service delays as Covid-19 hits an increasing number of Royal Mail workers. On Tuesday the service re- leased a list of areas, includ- ing the town, in England and Northern Ireland where deliv- eries and collections have been affected. The virus’s toll on the work- force as well as a surge in on- line shopping orders during lockdown was blamed for the hold-up. Royal Mail pledged in a statement that it was “work- ing hard to deliver the most comprehensive and high quali- ty service we can to all our cus- tomers, large and small”. This latest disruption comes after Christmas mail in Ring- wood was delayed due to two Royal Mail staff testing positive at the town’s delivery office. This resulted in a number of colleagues having to self-iso- late. CHRISTCHURCH

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AN OPEN letter urging local residents to follow lockdown rules signed by a host of med- ical practitioners has warned that the next few weeks “will be the most difficult we have ever faced”. The letter coincidedwithBCP Council mailing out postcards, including in Christchurch, tell- ing residents to stay at home as Covid-19 infection rates across the conurbation have been dou- bling every five days. The two initiatives have been prompted by fears that local hospitals will be overwhelmed unless people do their bit to avoid spreading the virus. One of the signatories to the letter is Dr Nigel Watson, a for- mer head of New Milton’s Arne- wood practice and now chief ex - ecutive of Wessex local medical committees, which represents

someone has died every six hours. Cllr Nicola Greene, BCP Council’s lead member for Covid-19 Resilience and Pub- lic Health, noted the “alarming rates”. She added: “As a community, we must act to stop the spread of this deadly virus and the sim- plest action we can all take is to stay at home.” Hampshire police have prom- ised “robust enforcement” where needed to ensure resi- dents follow lockdown rules. Assistant Chief Consta- ble Maggie Blyth said officers would try to engage, but she added: “However, I have em- phasised to our teams that ro- bust enforcement action should be taken as required, where bla- tant breaches in public places or private premises are report- ed to us.”

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