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Emergency Helpline "Home but not alone" 0800 876 6926

LOWESTOFT FOODBANKS and HELP FOR THE HOMELESS

There's one foodbank in the area, but they have several outlets  where you can get food. They usually operate a 'referral' scheme – a professional or established agency gives you a voucher of some kind which you take to the appropriate organisation. But Covid-times mean you need to check. 

Local figures for East Suffolk show we are not out of the woods yet. My graph clearly shows that. The red line shows national cases per 100,000, and that's levelling off. Suffolk (the blue line) consistently mirrors the national level, but we also have levelled off. The infection is still here. And with Christmas to come, we cannot relax. James Paget aren't, they know it's not over. Added: 23 September, 2023

It's getting darker in the forest. Not only are the days shortening, but the infection rate seems to be climbing inexorably.   The righthand chart shows the totals climbing every week, all week. The three-line graph demonstrates that being in Tier 2 is not as effective as Lockdown 2 in restricting transmission of this highly infectious virus. Added: 23 September, 2023

“We are currently awaiting further guidance on the new Covid-19 business grants announced by the Government yesterday and will update our website as soon as we have more information. The key thing that businesses can do at this stage is to apply for the Local Restrictions Support Grant (LRSG), which has been available since the lockdown in November, if they haven’t already. The online form and full details about how to apply with full eligibility criteria can be found below:

This graph shows why we in East Suffolk need to go into full lockdown, and should perhaps have done so earlier. September, local cases were pretty low. Encouraging, even. Then they started to go up, mirroring but still lower than the national climb. By October it was a strong upward trend. Eventually, the government put us into the second national Lockdown-With-Many-Exceptions. From the graph, it certainly seems that this had some effect, and by December the figures were around where we had started the lockdown. Added: 23 September, 2023

"To ensure that household waste and recycling collections are prioritised, East Suffolk Council and East Suffolk Norse have taken the decision to temporarily suspend the bulky waste collection service...from Friday 22 January" Bulk waste is things like fridges, cookers, washing machines, TVs and the like. For full details follow the link below to the East Suffolk Council site. East Suffolk/Norse are trying to make sure our usual household bin collection service keeps operating, as they suffer from Corona-Virus absences and stretched resources.

Under 70s Vaccinations begin on 15th Feb

As of 8th Jan  can now book online, just go to    https://www.nhs.uk/book-a-coronavirus-vaccination/do-you-have-an-nhs-nu… 

CV-19 Home Testing Kit

The kit is not recyclable. It should go in the Black Bin.

But the outer packaging, if it's cardboard, can go in the BLUE bin.

Disposable masks (or gloves) are NOT recyclable

East Suffolk infection rates have been flat for three weeks (March 27th 2021). The good news is that they are not going up again. The bad news is that they aren't significantly going down, either.

They are at the same levels as the beginning of October 2020, just before Lockdown Two.

Why is this worrying?