Dear Editor,
I am clinically extremely vulnerable (CEV) after having my spleen removed in 2002, so I’m at a massively increased risk of infection.
In February last year I had to give up my job as a supply teacher and “shield”, which has meant that for over 12 months I have severed my outside contact.
Residents across Cheshire East are being urged by council bosses to limit their journeys to other boroughs “unless the journey is necessary”.
The advice comes as new Covid-19 restrictions bite harder and latest Cheshire East figures show 668 positive cases in seven days to October 13.
A virus sweeping through patients at Leighton Hospital has forced health chiefs to impose visiting restrictions. Nantwich families are being warned to stay away as the Norovirus vomiting and diarrhoea bug spreads.
Leighton Hospital bosses have managed a two-year period free from MRSA bacteraemia (bloodstream infections) cases. Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) reached the landmark in February 2012.
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