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Bedford Borough Council has welcomed the roll out of the COVID-19 vaccine but warned we must all continue to follow existing guidelines to reduce the spread of the virus.
The first wave of doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to prevent the spread of COVID-19 have been administered with people aged over 80, health and social care staff eligible to receive it. Initially the vaccine is being administered in hospitals before being rolled out to community settings.
While this week represents the start of the vaccination process it is expected to take many months for the majority of the population to be immunised. To prevent the spread and continue to protect our friends, family and the NHS everyone is urged to continue following ‘Hands, Face, Space’ advice and limit their contact with others.
A short video about the importance of vaccines in the fight against disease from Professor Johnathan Van Tam is available on BLMK CCG's youtube.
Between 23 and 27 December you can form an exclusive ‘Christmas bubble’ of up to three households
- You can only be in one bubble
- You cannot change this bubble
- Your bubble should not include people from more than three households
Please keep your exclusive Christmas bubbles as small as possible. Although you can have up to three households in your bubble, you don’t have to, you can have less.
A quieter Christmas can be a safer Christmas.
Find out more on the Government website.
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As usual, our bin crews have a much-deserved bank holiday break on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day so bin collections will be a little delayed over the festive period.
You can check your bin day, download a calendar of bin collections for the year, and check when your bin collections will be over Christmas and New Year all on the Council’s website at www.bedford.gov.uk/bins.
For updates on what's happening locally, visit our dedicated coronavirus webpage: www.bedford.gov.uk/covid19
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