Issue - meetings
Local incidents
Meeting: 09/11/2020 - Local Outbreak Engagement Board (Public) (Item 41)
41 Local incidents
Minutes:
- From the 27th of October to the 3rd of November, there had been incidents at the following in West Berkshire:
|
Setting |
Exposures/ incidents |
cluster |
outbreaks |
|
Schools |
3 |
0 |
0 |
|
Care Homes |
1 |
0 |
0 |
|
workplaces |
1 |
0 |
3 |
|
NHS/ health |
0 |
0 |
1 (?) |
|
Other |
1 |
0 |
0 |
Matt Pearce noted that every time an incident happens, the Council works very closely with the setting to review and assess the settings to see how they can improve. He also stated than an outbreak was classified as 2 or more cases with highly probable or confirmed epidemiological links. In addition to these outbreaks, there were a number of ongoing outbreaks identified at an earlier stage.
Councillor Masters asked how the care home incidents were broken down in terms of council staff, such as agency.
Matt Pearce stated that he did not have the relevant data to hand but stated that the infection controls in care homes were robust. He noted that any cases that were picked up were dealt with quickly.
Andy Sharp invested additional capacity and ensuring care homes are covid-19 secure. He noted that care homes in West Berkshire were in a strong position to deal with care homes.