Issue - meetings

NATIONAL UPDATE

Meeting: 25/09/2020 - Surrey Local Outbreak Engagement Board (Item 14)

NATIONAL UPDATE

The Board will receive a verbal update on the national context regarding COVID-19 Local Outbreak Control Plans.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Witnesses:

 

Mr Tim Oliver - Leader of the Council and LOEB Chairman (SCC)

Key points raised in the discussion:

1.      The Chairman noted that he sat on the National Outbreak Control Plans Advisory Board (NOCPAB) which was a coordinating body for councillors and that key information would be relayed from officers through the upcoming items.

2.      The Chairman highlighted that the NHS COVID-19 app launched yesterday and that the Government were keen for as many people as possible to download it. He stressed that the simple messaging of hands, face and space remained key and only those with genuine symptoms to go for testing.

RESOLVED:

The Board noted the verbal update.

Actions/further information to be provided:

None.