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Bedford’s contact tracing ‘cannot cope’ with rapid rise in infections

A rapid rise in covid cases linked to people becoming infected during the European football championships is overwhelming Bedford’s contact tracing system, a meeting heard. Contact...

Warning to stop covid coming home

Public health chiefs in Bedford believe they will struggle to get covid safety messages across to the public in advance of Sunday’s football final. A meeting yesterday (Thursday) heard...

90 per cent of residents in Bedford COVID hot-spots yet to be tested

Only 10 per cent of residents in Bedford’s Indian variant hotspot wards have come forward for tests, a meeting heard yesterday (Thursday). Health chiefs are stepping up efforts to...

Crunch week of testing and “Super Sunday” of second jabs ahead as Bedford’s COVID detectives hunt down Indian variant

Virus hunters are hoping to be able to stamp down on the latest fast spreading coronavirus variant before it can tighten its grip on Bedford. They are carrying out a two-pronged strategy...

Bedford “now back to where it was in October and November” after Indian COVID variant arrives

Public health chiefs in Bedford believe the Borough is now back to where it was in October and November after a new, more catchable, form of COVID-19 (coronavirus) unleashed itself on town. A...

Fears for “Manic Monday” prompt health warnings as next lockdown easing stage begins

People in Bedford are being urged to remember the hands-face-space-ventilation message as the next stage of lockdown easing begins. From today (April 12) non-essential shops...

High Covid death toll expected for ‘several weeks’ but signs are that the tide is slowly turning

Public health experts in Bedford are expecting a high Covid-19 (coronavirus) death toll to continue for several more weeks as an infection bulge works its way through into hospitalisations...

Borough’s COVID cases exponentially on the rise as residents warned to stay safe this Christmas

Ahead of the publication of the Borough's weekly coronavirus figures tomorrow, the Bedford Independent can report that cases in our area are rising more rapidly than ever before, causing concern over the spread of the virus during the Christmas break...

“Don’t believe coronavirus conspiracy theories, Bedford Hospital is filling up with COVID-positive patients”

Councillors in Bedford have urged residents not to listen to an “increasingly noisy minority” of coronavirus conspiracy theorists. They pointed to a record and an increasing number of...

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