Dorset Council will be broadcasting live online from 5pm on Thursday, 22 October, to give the latest update on COVID in Dorset and to answer residents’ questions. Sam Crowe, Director of Public Health Dorset, and Matt Prosser, Chief Executive of Dorset Council, will host the event.
Sam Crowe will give a briefing on the latest number and rate of COVID-19 cases in Dorset, and the arrangements in place to mitigate spread of the virus. Matt Prosser will give details of how schools, care homes and council services are responding to the situation and planning for the coming weeks.
Residents can submit their questions about COVID and the local response in advance by emailing comms@dorsetcouncil.gov.uk
The live briefing will be broadcast via Microsoft Teams. Viewers should download the Microsoft Teams app to their device in advance and use this link to access the broadcast.
The briefing will also be recorded and available via the council’s YouTube channel afterwards (search for DorsetCouncilUK on YouTube).
This broadcast will be heavily controlled in line with the official narrative. I will submit some questions, and will be pleasantly surprised if any are addressed.
I am one the older residents in the BCP area so I rarely go out to shop. However as my wife had an emergency tooth extraction on Friday I went out shopping to Tesco in Ferndown . Tesco had the one way system operation plenty of notices about face masks , even offering some to customers who had forgotten to bring them BUT in store it was a different picture , most were wearing face masks but many were NOT especially teenagers and mid 20 year olds . Cannot the council enforce these regulations or must some shoppers run the gauntlet every time we shop . Please do something about this .
Just tried to download the app and received the message that the address is invalid!
Please can you help?
If everyone washes their hands or uses sanitizer, wear a face mask but please don’t drop it, put it in your pocket or in your bag, use fabric Facemasks they should be washed after everytime you use them please keep your distance when walking please go into single file if possible, keep to the left when approaching other pedestrians, Cyclists or skate boarding. Simple actions will keep Dorset Safe and prevent overwhelming our NHS
I would like to know why the signage in Dorchester town centre requesting to keep left is so tiny and insignificant that it may as well not be there. Other town centres seem to manage a much better presence of this Covid request.
How are we going to recoup the furlough money given during lockdown. Will those who have worked all through the COVid situation, who haven’t received any financial support have their taxes raised? How does Social Services intend to support those who have been made redundant & cannot find alternative employment?
Dorset’s infection levels are low but now rising. Isn’t this just the situation where a locally run test and trace system would be most effective? Are there any plans for this?
The link doesn’t work for the broadcast, fail.
Get it together