Oxfordshire denied Tier 2

[IrkedEssex]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-54648049

This has not been widely reported. Oxfordshire has a very similar rolling average case rate to Essex according to the PHE map.

hmm and essex asked to go into tier 2

bit odd isnt it

I teach at a school in Oxfordshire, we've got zero cases and barely any staff absence. I think we've been incredibly lucky.

Is it mainly in students? Rate there is similar to Bath we are tier 2. It is half of Bristol's and they are also tier 2.

1 sorry! (Bath & Bristol) Bristol is on around 250 cases..

Ansaf Azhar, director of public health, warned the county could find itself in a similar position to Liverpool and Manchester if action is not taken

Slightly different to those though in terms of rates and population. He sounds a bit OTT.

All seems reasonably under control in my corner of Oxfordshire, a few cases in local primarys, a bit more in secondary schools but not lots

Bath has very similar rates and quite similar to Oxford, our public health person is not calling for higher tiers but for people to use their common sense and be careful.

"We should all be prudent and cautious, but if we follow guidance, we need not be fearful..."

newsroom.bathnes.gov.uk/news/help-avoid-threat-lockdown-bath-north-east-somerset

Sounds pretty sensible...

There are also some Oxford schools that have been hit badly (by isolating and staff absence at least not clear how many actual cases from the news report)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-54617327

Oxfordshire really aren't on a high number of cases.

Well of course they're not going to be allowed into tier 2. This is clearly the attempts of local wannabe dictators trying to impose restrictions for the fun of it considering the relatively low level of cases and current downwards trajectory.

Our hospital trust has 16 cases at the moment and 1 on ventilation. My daughter's secondary school hasn't has a positive case as of yet, and our numbers were high due to the uni's. My LA is at 209 out of 316 in the country so quite low, oxford city is higher, but i do think its starting to spread out to the villages. We haven't had a case yet in mine throughout the whole pandemic though, so hearing they asked for Tier 2 screams financial gain to me. I expect we will be placed in there before too long though

Looks as if Oxford is now going into tier 2 but not the rest of the country www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-54736797

It seems to be if you have a pushy council. I think here they are more thinking of small businesses and local people as well as covid. Thankfully

(not Oxford)

See, I could get on board with a proper "whack-a-mole" approach. But in Essex we have blanket restrictions covering large districts with very low case rates and case rates going down.

Oxford city going into tier 2 on Saturday☹️

I'm totally pissed off about it.

Oxfordshire's cases are half my county's. Not a whisper of us entering tier 2.

@StatisticalSense

Well of course they're not going to be allowed into tier 2. This is clearly the attempts of local wannabe dictators trying to impose restrictions for the fun of it considering the relatively low level of cases and current downwards trajectory.

Yes I totally agree!!! We have had no cases at all in this corner of oxon I mean Oxford is an hours drive away from here.... literally not one case in any school here either

I live in a small market town in Oxfordshire. No cases in either infant or secondary school, no-one I know of sick.

Praying they wait at least until after the weekend to shut us down.

My local council (abuts Oxfordshire) have asked to go into tier 2. This was a while ago but the council leader did say he wanted to include areas not in our council boundaries but in our urban area. I can imagine this is causing some delay / problems

I'm 7 miles from the city centre, no cases in our village or surrounding ones. My daughter's secondary school hasn't had a singe case....yet. It will come in time but lord knows why they're pushing for it from choice if not from a financial stand point

It'll be the whole county pretty soon, which sucks arse. I'm in a small village with almost no cases at all. Rubbish.

It'll be the whole country in 'local' lockdown, so it doesn't look like a national one. Government are a fucking shower.

Oxfordshire folk should check out the school closures part of OCC website though, loads if school cases and bubble closures that I've not heard about elsewhere. Village schools, Didcot boys and girls, Abingdon secondaries, Banbury and Witney secondaries.