Public health and social care

• Award for Leicester film about children’s rights

  8 March 2021

  2 minute read

  A FILM about children’s rights made by young people in Leicester has won a prestigious award.

• City’s schools ready to welcome back children from Monday

  5 March 2021

  3 minute read

  AFTER months of home learning, children across Leicester will be back in the classroom from Monday (8 March).

• City’s covid tracing team has 92% success rate

  4 March 2021

  3 minute read

  LEICESTER City Council’s pioneering contact tracing team for coronavirus infections has successfully tracked down more than 92% of cases in the past three months.

• Sixth rapid coronavirus testing site for Leicester

  1 March 2021

  2 minute read

  A NEW walk-in centre offering rapid coronavirus testing to people who have no symptoms of the virus has opened in Leicester.

• Council seizes speaker following noise complaints from neighbours

  19 February 2021

  2 minute read

  COUNCIL officers have seized noise equipment from a flat in Leicester after neighbours complained about very loud music being repeatedly played in the property.

• New rapid coronavirus testing site now open

  12 February 2021

  2 minute read

  A NEW walk-in centre offering rapid coronavirus testing to workers who have no symptoms of the virus has opened in Leicester today (Friday 12 February).

• Final plea for pledges in COVID remembrance project

  29 January 2021

  2 minute read

  A PROJECT to remember all those affected by COVID could get the go-ahead, if its fundraising target is met by Sunday (31 January).

• Two new rapid coronavirus testing sites to open next week

  29 January 2021

  2 minute read

  TWO new walk-in centres that will offer rapid coronavirus testing to workers who have no symptoms of the virus are set to open in Leicester next week.

• A message from Leicester’s director of public health, Professor Ivan Browne

  14 January 2021

  3 minute read

  Leicester's director of public health has warned local people that the coronavirus situation is now putting huge strain on the city's hospitals.

• Caseload rockets for city’s covid tracing team

  8 January 2021

  3 minute read

  THE TEAM charged with tracking down people who test positive for coronavirus, but who fail to respond to an automated message, has seen a huge surge in its workload.

• Rapid coronavirus testing helping to identify asymptomatic covid carriers

  5 January 2021

  2 minute read

  A WALK-IN centre offering rapid coronavirus testing to those without symptoms is helping to identify people in Leicester who could be passing on the virus without knowing it.

• Coronavirus: Important new information for you

  5 January 2021

  3 minute read

  STAY at home, save lives and protect the NHS. That’s the message from the government and public health experts, as a new national lockdown begins to tackle a more easily-caught strain of coronavirus which is spreading across the country.