Calls for Scarborough Borough to be in Tier 1 after Christmas not before
There is a call for the Borough of Scarborough to be in Tier 1 AFTER Christmas and not before.
There is a call for the Borough of Scarborough to be in Tier 1 AFTER Christmas - and not before.
North Yorkshire’s average infection rate per 100,000 people is 103, which is well below the England average.
Dr Lincoln Sargeant, the county's outgoing Director of Public Health, said:
"I would hope that the change in Tiers is after Christmas as opposed to before it; and it isn't that I want to be the Grinch that stole Christmas or takes away all of the joys and expectations that people might have.
"You will have heard the numbers and we did see a dramatic fall off. However that progress is now beginning to stall. I did suggest last week that we might see that beginning to happen.
"Generally speaking, when we change Tiers it does give a message to the public and I think it's not so much which Tier you're in, it's a sense that the public might get a false reassurance that somehow things have resolved.
"This is a vaccine that is delivered in two doses and it will take time for the immune response to develop; so we're probably not going to see the full effect of the vaccine for possibly up to six months. So we're talking about spring into summer."