Keep your ‘social distance’ appeal
WEST YORKSHIRE Prepared, together with leading health organisations, is calling on people in the region to be vigilant in their response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The region’s Local Resilience Forum, along with Public Health England and West Yorkshire and Harrogate Healthcare Partnership, is reminding everyone of their responsibility to understand how the changes affect them and their families and ensure they know what to do to keep safe and reduce the risk of COVID-19.
After July 4, lockdown relaxations include the managed reopening of pubs, cafes and restaurants, hotels and B&Bs, cinemas, visitor attractions and hairdressers if they can do so safely.
Other public places such as libraries, places of worship and outdoor playgrounds will also be able to open and people will be able to meet in groups of up to two households in any location, indoors or outdoors, providing social distancing remains in place.
Robin Tuddenham, Chief Executive of Calderdale Council and co-chair of West Yorkshire Prepared, said: “While this will be welcome news to many in West Yorkshire, as people are wanting to get back to some kind of normal, it is vitally important everyone remembers the COVID-19 virus is still with us and we cannot simply go back to life as it was before.
“It is incredibly important people continue to follow the two metre social distancing rule where possible.”
The forum said the ‘one metre plus’ rule has not replaced the two metre rule, it is just for occasions where social distancing at two metres is not possible. Where it isn’t possible, robust mitigation measures need to be in place, such as wearing a face covering, installing screens where possible, making sure people sit/stand side by side or behind other people rather than facing them, and providing extra handwashing facilities.
“It is incredibly important people continue to follow the two metre social distancing rule