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Coronavirus (COVID-19)—overview details government’s approach to local outbreaks

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Published on: 28 July 2020

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LNB News 28/07/2020

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Issue Date: 28 July 2020

Published Date: 28 July 2020

Jurisdiction(s): England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales

Article summary

The Department of Health and Social Care has published an overview of the government’s approach to ‘managing local coronavirus [COVID-19] outbreaks’. The government explains that its objective is to return life ‘to as close to normal as possible’ and that it identifies outbreaks by continuously monitoring data. The overview details the current areas with local restrictions and the government’s five-part approach to managing local outbreaks—monitoring, engagement and communication, testing, local restrictions and national intervention.

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