Help to keep communities safe
This newsletter is to help keep you updated with latest information about Covid-19 so you can share with your organisations and communities. Thank you for all your support, we appreciate everything you're doing to help keep communities in Sheffield safe.
Latest lockdown restrictions
The government has put England into a National lockdown because of the number of coronavirus cases. The restrictions are in force from 5 January 2021 and everyone must follow them.
Key points
- stay at home and only go out for essential reasons such as shopping, exercise or medical appointments
- work from home if you can
- clinically extremely vulnerable people are advised to shield and limit the time they spend outside their home
- don't mix with other households indoors or outdoors (except those in a support bubble or childcare bubble)
- you can exercise once per day with your household (or support bubble) or one other person outside your household
- you should not travel outside your local area. Only leave your area for work, education, caring responsibilities or medical reasons
- primary and secondary schools are providing online learning for all pupils. Schools remain open only for vulnerable children and the children of critical workers
- universities and colleges are providing online learning (except for students who are eligible for face to face teaching on specific courses)
- nurseries and Early Years settings are open
- safe visiting opportunities for friends or family in care homes are available – check the guidance
- Further details are available at www.sheffield.gov.uk/rulesandrestrictions or www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home
The poster below as well as new national and local social media assets are available on www.sheffield.gov.uk/coronaviruscommunityresources. We're currently awaiting translations and will share once available.
Lockdown poster
Greg Fell updates
Watch this week's position statement from 4 January by Greg Fell, Sheffield's Director of Public Health's on You Tube here or click the image below to watch.
Watch all the films on Greg's YouTube playlist.
Greg Fell Postition Statement video
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New translations of our Helping Prevent Coronavirus posters (below) are now available in Pashto and Tigrinya. These can be downloaded together with the other translations from www.sheffield.gov.uk/coronaviruscommunityresources
Help prevent Coronavirus poster
There are six Covid testing centres across Sheffield and next Monday on 11th January one of them will move location. The Hillsborough mobile testing centre will move to the site of the former Hazlebarrow Primary School in Jordanthorpe.
Read more here
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Community resources
We update www.sheffield.gov.uk/coronaviruscommunityresources regularly, everything here is free to use and materials are in a variety of languages and formats including images to download and print and social media images to upload. Please share these materials in your communities to help keep people in Sheffield safe.
If there is a format or information you can't find, please email us at communications@sheffield.gov.uk and we'll try to help.
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