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The number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in Lancashire since the start of the pandemic is 124,147. View email online

Subscribe Apr 5, 2021 Good evening, Whisper it...but it finally looks like we are beginning to make our way out of the Covid nightmare. The Prime Minister has confirmed that from next Monday, non-essential shops, including hairdressers and barbers, can reopen, and pubs can start to serve people in beer gardens. To our former selves this would appear to be nothing to get excited about. But life has changed so much in the past 12 months that the thought of a haircut and the chance to pop into town for a look around real shops is enough to make you quite emotional. We may have to wait a little longer before we can start to think about holidays, but with more than half the adult population now vaccinated, it is beginning to become a more realistic proposition. It’s hard from our current perspective to know what this pandemic will have taught us, but I’d like to think we will have learned at least a few lessons. Like not taking our friends and family for granted - or valuing the freedom to travel in this country and further afield. It’s the small things that really matter in the end. Until next time, Take care, Gillian. Email me your views at gillian.parkinson@jpimedia.co.uk It is thanks to our loyal readers that we can continue to provide the trusted news, analysis and insight that matters to you. For unlimited access to our unrivalled local reporting, you can take out a subscription here and help support the work of our dedicated team of reporters. South Ribble among the highest jump in cases across Lancashire in the last 24 hours - here is the latest figures for each area The number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in Lancashire since the start of the pandemic is 124,147. Free rapid Covid tests offered to everyone in England twice weekly - how it will work Free rapid Covid-19 test will be offered to everyone in England twice a week from Friday (9 April), the government has announced. Thousands to return to nightclub dancefloor as part of trials to reopen venues The first club night event in more than a year will see thousands take to the dancefloor as part of new government trials. IT company’s Covid-19 passport app to be ready in May The IT company helping the UK Government with a possible Covid-19 passport app has said its technology is “an efficient, secure and scalable solution” that will support the safe reopening of society. Young adults to be offered single dose Covid vaccine - ready to ‘jab and go’ from July A new single dose Covid-19 vaccine will mainly be targeted at young millennials in the UK who may not want to wait three months for a second dose. View more news

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