Daily Newsletter - Saturday 25th April 2020
Here are the key stories for the day, with thanks to our WhatsApp group who keep these coming in all day. There are now 126 members of the group, with every street represented.
Editorial:
The podcast about Cllr Glenn Harwood M.B.E. provoked a lot of comment and unearthed the photograph below taken by Melvyn Wooding at the Yelden beer festival. Note the bow tie! This picture sums up Glenn and his personality perfectly.
| Glenn Harwood at the Yelden Beer Festival |
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Good progress has been made on the Gigaclear installation work at Chelston Rise, with the drive crossing now complete. Work will start on the outer ring of houses on Monday. The route of the cables has been marked out. If anyone has questions or concerns about the route, please contact me.
Birthdays:
None that we are aware of.
Nationally:
- UK reported hospital deaths from Covid-19 went up by 684 to 19,506. The number of new infections has jumped to over 5,000 a day which is concerning after recent falls. Our infection and death rate are now above that of Italy at the same stage and are heading towards Spain.
This chart has aligned the epidemics from 4 countries with different approaches to the crisis.
Locally:
The Northamptonshire figures yesterday again reported corrections to previous days and are now two days behind the National figures. However, the corrected data does show that new infections are falling off significantly.
Daily links (all verified):
| Daily Podcast | http://covid-19.chelveston.org.uk/daily-briefings/20200425 |
| Daily newsletter | http://covid-19.chelveston.org.uk/daily-newsletter |
| Pause for thought | http://church.chelveston.org.uk/pause-for-thought/20200425 |
| Parish History | https://www.chelveston-pc.gov.uk/history.html |
| Puzzle Library | http://covid-19.chelveston.org.uk/puzzle-library/ |
| Advice on breathing with Covid-19 Symptoms | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwLzAdriec0 |
| Vulnerable Household registration | https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus-extremely-vulnerable |
| Northamptonshire County Council Support Line | Call 0300 126 1000 and select Option 5 (Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm) |
| Longhurst Housing Association Support Line | Call 0300 123 1745 |
| Village support line | Call 07850 570007 in the first instance and I’ll find you help |
| ASDA Volunteer Card | http://asda.com/volunteercard |
| Pharmacy2U | https://www.pharmacy2u.co.uk |
| Live UK Covid-19 Tracker (Public Health England) |
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/ |
| Parish Council Walking Leaflet | https://www.chelveston-pc.gov.uk/uploads/walk-leaflet.pdf |
And finally . . .
| As the Parliament gets used to video meetings, the Speaker asked everyone to be careful of their backdrops. . . |