Spending Review commits to billions of pounds to help tackle coronavirus next year, including £18 billion to fund our programmes on community testing, test and trace, PPE and vaccines.

Tamworth and Lichfield are now considered to be Tier 3 - Very High Alert for Covid 19 but Staffordshire is an area which has been issued with mass-testing.

On December 2nd when national restrictions end, Staffordshire will be considered a Tier 3 - Very High Alert Level, area. 

Mass testing is being trialled in a few areas, we have already seen Liverpool, Redcar and other northern cities begin lateral-flow testing for Covid19.

Staffordshire will soon be moving from 'Medium' to the 'High' in the Covid19 alert levels system. Dates will be confirmed shortly but it is expected that by next week, our status will have changed. 

Since the call out was made over 300,000 people have signed up to help support the NHS's vaccine research to find an effective vaccine for Covid19.

Local MP Christopher Pincher has urged all those people in Tamworth and the surrounding villages who are eligible for the flu jab to get one this winter, as the Government launches its drive to vaccine 30 million people. 

Cancer hasn’t stopped during COVID-19, and neither has Macmillan. Every penny raised at a Macmillan Coffee Morning helps them to provide vital support to people with cancer, who need it now more than ever.

This month in Parliament we passed three really important pieces of legislation, the Business Recovery Act, the  Domestic Abuse Act and the Trade Act. Each very different but each positive and both important to us domestically and internationally.

Setting out the next steps for the 2.2 million people who were asked to shield, the Government is now allowing them to regain a degree of normality to their daily lives.