Bedford Care Homes Coronavirus

Overcrowding and a high number of ethnic and care home residents have been cited as reasons for a town s high rate of covid 19 cases a public health report shows.

Bedford care homes coronavirus. If you re an essential worker see full list you can apply for priority testing through gov uk by following the guidance for essential. The bedford independent can reveal there have been at least 183 covid 19 coronavirus connected deaths in bedford borough with almost a fifth of the deaths occurring in care homes. Each of our six homes can accommodate up to 30 residents. You can read this here.

The bedford covid 19 task force met thursday august 27 2020 to review the latest guidance from the department of public health the office of governor charlie baker and town legal counsel. Latest confirmed cases in bedford the uk remains in lockdown with the. Lockdown and other stories from across the east of england. Statewide there have been 20 594 cases in residents of long term care homes and 4 336 cases among employees.

If you have any of the symptoms of coronavirus you can ask for a test through the nhs website or phone 119. Hospital confirms there have been 11 coronavirus deaths in bedford the news comes as public health england phe announced earlier today that confirmed cases in the borough stand at 139. The government has updated its advice on testing. This figure accounts for 37 more deaths than those recorded on the nhs england website.

Each day the bedford independent publishes the latest figures from phe in a live blog. There have been 792 reported cases of covid 19 in the borough with 201 deaths at bedford hospital and 21 in care homes. See our new weekly covid 19 statistics for bedford borough here. Now 5 121 care home residents have died from causes related to covid 19.

Beech house is a dedicated dementia house pennington house specialises in dementia nursing lilford and astley houses are for residential care while croft and kenyon houses. Bedford borough covid 19 deep dive final report pdf bedford borough council has published its local outbreak. There is a new walk in testing centre in bedford for residents showing symptoms of coronavirus. The bedford covid 19 task force met thursday july 30 2020 to review the latest guidance from the department of public health dph the office of governor charlie baker and town.