Area records yet another drop in Covid-19 cases
NORTHERN Lincolnshire has recorded another drop in Covid-19 cases after just 19 people tested positive on Wednesday.
In North East Lincolnshire, six people tested positive, placing its average rolling rate at 70.8 The latest figures show 85 people in North East Lincolnshire have tested positive for coronavirus in the past week, a 36.1 per cent decrease on the previous week.
In North Lincolnshire, 13 people gave a positive test result in the past 24 hours, putting its rolling rate to 92.3
114 people have tested positive for coronavirus in North Lincolnshire in the past week, a 49.3 per cent decrease on the last seven days.
The impact of the pandemic seems to also be easing at hospitals run by the Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust.
For another day, there have been no reported deaths at it’s sites in Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Goole. The total number of people who have sadly died with Covid-19 under the Trust remains at 450 since the pandemic began. There are currently no patients in the trust in intensive care with coronavirus.
As of Wednesday, there were 17 patients between the local hospitals – five at Grimsby and 11 at Scunthorpe and one at Goole. Across the UK, 2,763 more people have received a positive test result, placing the overall rolling rate at 39.
A further 45 people have sadly died in the UK with coronavirus, as of April 7.
It is worth noting that daily figures may be skewed this week due to the Bank Holiday weekend. About 31,700,000 people in the UK have received their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine while roughly 5,680,000 have had their second.
It comes as under-30s will be offered an alternative to the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine while experts review a possible link to rare blood clots.
People aged 18 to 29 in the UK will be offered the Pfizer, Moderna or another jab where available, scientists revealed in a major press conference on Wednesday. But if the AstraZeneca vaccine is the only one available in their area, people will still be offered that jab - regardless of their age, reports The Mirror.
The AstraZeneca jab rollout is not being halted in the UK. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) insisted benefits of the jab still outweigh the risks - and ministers and scientists urged Brits to continue getting vaccinated.
It came as Europe’s medicines regulator officially branded blood clots a rare side-effect of the AstraZeneca vaccine - but said the benefits of vaccination still outweigh the risks. England’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Van-Tam admitted it was “a course correction” but said: “This is a massive beast we are driving along at enormous pace with enormous success, this vaccine programme.
“If you sail an enormous liner across the Atlantic, then it’s not really reasonable that you aren’t going to have to make at least one course correction during that voyage”.