City health bosses have issued an update on how Liverpool is dealing with Covid-19.
Professor Matt Ashton, Liverpool director of public health, warned that despite an end to coronavirus restrictions across the UK, “the pandemic hasn’t finished yet” and infection rates across the city remained high. Prof Ashton was speaking during a meeting of the Liverpool Health and Wellbeing Board at Liverpool Town Hall.
Among the items discussed by members was the annual public health report, which detailed how more than 12,500 cases of “the unpredictable virus” were reported by schools across the city last year. According to the latest data from Public Health England, there were 13,546 infections in the week ending March 24 in the Liverpool City Region - 1,598 more positive tests than the previous week, an increase of 13%.
