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Positive cases in children are high and school absences are leading to a need to juggle face-to-face and remote learning. To keep our schools open we need to keep up safer behaviours.

Covid first, second and booster doses are easily available every day in Brighton & Hove. You can choose the best time and place for you.

Don't delay you can still get your flu vaccine from a pharmacy or elsewhere.

This week the government has announced that the Plan B measures will be lifted and we’ll return to the Plan A measures.

With recent changes to testing and isolation guidance, it can be difficult to know what advice to follow. But take lateral flow tests when you're meeting others and if you have any symptoms, get a PCR. If you test positive on either, you must self-isolate.

With Covid-19 cases at the highest rate they've ever been, make sure you have lateral flow test kits and are using them when you need to.

For the second week in a row, Covid rates have come down in Brighton & Hove

The first signs that lockdown is working are reflected in latest data showing 1,438 confirmed new cases of Covid-19 in the city in the seven days up to 15 January - a 36% decrease per 100,000 residents from the previous week.

The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Brighton & Hove has more than doubled since the current national lockdown started on 26 December. The city now has more confirmed cases per 100,000 than England and the rest of the South East.

In the seven days up to 8 January, based on data published on 13 January, there were 2244 confirmed new Covid-19 cases in Brighton & Hove which is an 18% increase per 100,000 residents from the previous week.

Please ignore anyone asking for payments for vaccinations. It's a scam. The national vaccination programme is being run by the NHS. Nobody else. And it is free.