COVID-19: Latest updates
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Check our website for the latest COVID-19 information and advice and information on Elmbridge services.
 COVID-secure elections
We have been working hard to make polling stations safe for tomorrow’s elections and ensuring you will be able to vote safely.
To keep yourself and others safe on polling day, please:
- wear a face covering inside the polling station
- sanitise your hands using the hand sanitiser provided
- maintain social distancing at all times
- if possible, bring your own pen or pencil to mark your ballot paper.
Find out more about the elections.
 People aged 40+ now eligible for vaccine
Invites are currently being sent to people aged 40 and over* and Surrey Heartlands is on track to offer a first dose to all adults by the end of July subject to vaccine supply. If you are in the eligible groups please join the millions of others who are helping to protect themselves and others. You can book your vaccination now by using the online service, by calling 119 or wait to receive an invitation from your local GP service.
*Information correct as of 9am on 5 May 2021.
 Support for Elmbridge hospitality businesses
With the cautious easing of restrictions, many hospitality businesses have created outdoor seating areas and erected marquees to accommodate their customers and we are pleased that our local businesses are complying with the Government’s COVID guidance for the safety of their customers and employees.
Although planning permission is required for outdoor structures, to support our local businesses, we have refrained from taking enforcement action on outside eating and drinking area structures since March 2020. This amnesty has now been extended to 1 January 2022 in order to further support our hospitality businesses.
While we all adjust to the easing of restrictions, patience and respect is needed. We are asking businesses to respect their neighbours and ask their customers to do so too. For those living around bars and restaurants, we ask for your patience while hospitality businesses manage their re-opening.
For further information or advice on how to control noise, please contact the Pollution Team, email: envhealth@elmbridge.gov.uk or visit the noise code page.
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