News · 8 February 2021
A further £2m fund, established by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority to enable its six local authorities to contribute to the costs of taxi licences, has been announced, taking the total support package to £3.5 million. Established in October last year, the first round of the fund enabled the six local authorities to provide
News · 4 February 2021
Who gets it first? Due to the limited number of doses available, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended offering the vaccine to people in order of risk. The full prioritisation list can be found here and is as follows (in order of priority): Residents in a care home for older adults and their
Health · 4 February 2021
Public Health officials in Liverpool are urging residents to get a Covid-19 test if they are showing any of the wider symptoms of the virus.
Covid-19 · 2 February 2021
Education leaders in Liverpool have written to early years nurseries and childcare providers in the city to thank them for their work during the pandemic.
News · 28 January 2021
A new £10m round of top-up grants will be made available for all 1,500 businesses supported by the first two rounds of the Liverpool City Region’s emergency COVID-related support grants. Depending on the size of the business, the top-up grants will be worth between £2,250 and £10,500. The funding is the latest in of a
Blog · 27 January 2021
Mike Allanson is a member of the City Council Communications Team and has over 35 years of Council service to his name. He’s been shielding whilst working from home and recently got the call to go for his Covid vaccine. “As someone who has always felt pretty resilient during ‘normal’ times, I like to think
News · 25 January 2021
Liverpool City Council has received special funding to expand work to support those most at risk from COVID-19 and boost vaccine take up.
Covid-19 · 22 January 2021
A group of leading experts, including academics from the Universities of Liverpool, Harvard and Oxford, have issued a statement supporting the use of rapid lateral flow antigen tests (Ag-LFTs) as an essential tool in public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ag-LFTs involve a swab of the front of the nose and tonsil area in the throat,
Blog · 22 January 2021
Iain Buchan, Professor of Public Health and Clinical Informatics at the University of Liverpool, explains how the city's Covid-19 mass testing programme helped the city drive down rates of coronavirus.
News · 22 January 2021
It has been announced that Liverpool will offer Covid-19 vaccinations to those who are facing homelessness. This will not impact on the roll-out of the vaccination programme for other key groups. Acting Mayor of Liverpool Councillor Wendy Simon said: “I’m proud that as a city we always look to protect and support the most vulnerable
Blog · 21 January 2021
In this letter from America, Harvard School of Public Health Professor Michael J Mina argues Joe Biden's new administration should look at Liverpool's Covid-19 testing programme in its efforts to tackle coronavirus.
Blog · 15 January 2021
Sadly, one of the defining images of this third lockdown has been a picture of a poorly packaged school meal.
News · 14 January 2021
Businesses in Liverpool are being asked to redouble their efforts to help the city’s fight against Covid-19.
News · 13 January 2021
As leaders of faith communities in Liverpool and Merseyside, we are taking very seriously our region’s extremely high infection rate and the added concern around the spread of the new variant of COVID-19. We believe that faith communities make an essential contribution to the common good – not just in the spiritual support which is
News · 12 January 2021
FOOD vouchers will once again be distributed to Liverpool families who need support during the national lockdown. Supermarket vouchers worth £15 a week per child will be available to the city’s 20,000 children who receive free school meals. Vouchers will be distributed by schools either as e-vouchers or physical vouchers to eligible families this week.
Health · 10 January 2021
Parents and carers in Liverpool are being written to by education and public health bosses urging them only to request a critical worker place for their child during lockdown if it is crucial.
Covid-19 · 8 January 2021
Political and public health leaders across Liverpool City Region are urging people to follow lockdown rules, as rates of Covid-19 continue to rise dramatically.
News · 7 January 2021
Liverpool’s testing centres for people without coronavirus symptoms are now being targeted for use by frontline workers during the lockdown.
Blog · 6 January 2021
“Stay at home as much as possible. Shop only when necessary. Stay active, but away from others. And challenge friends and relatives who don’t follow the rules.” Director of Public Health, Matthew Ashton, with his thoughts on the quickest way out of the latest lockdown... We are now in the third wave of attack of
Covid-19 · 4 January 2021
What you can and can't do in the new lockdown
