An event aimed at encouraging people to stay healthy and improve their wellbeing has been postponed – due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Portishead Lions Club and Gordano Breakfast Rotary Club had planned the event on April 4 at the Somerset Hall, Portishead.
Dozens of organisations promoting healthy lifestyles were due to take part with diabetes testing and blood pressure checks on offer.
Following the uncertainty around the coronavirus, and as cases across the UK soar, organisers have now decided to cancel.
Portishead Lions Club spokesman Nick Gough said: “It is with regret that the directors of Portishead Lions Club have decided to postpone this event due to the uncertainty around the Covid-19 virus.
“It was felt that the event was likely to be poorly attended and that we had a responsibility as a community organisation to help keep people safe and that bringing people together to an event which was likely to attract a certain age group would be irresponsible.
“We hope to put it on the in the near future when things have calmed down and we get the all clear from the authorities.”
A total of 42 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed by Public Health England (PHE) in the south west.
Latest data from Public Health England (PHE) - which publishes a daily list providing a break-down of where the disease cases are - shows the number of confirmed cases in Bristol has increased to three, while North Somerset has none. There is one confirmed case in South Gloucestershire.
However Bristol City Council disputes the PHE figures and says there are just two confirmed coronavirus cases in Bristol.
Across the UK, some 590 people have been infected, with the death toll now rising to 10.
The new total means the UK has the fifth highest number of confirmed cases in Europe, according to the World Health Organisation, behind Italy, France, Germany and Spain.
GP surgeries across the Bristol area are also putting in place measures to limit the spread of the virus.
Many have suspended their online appointment booking systems with all patients having to call in and be screened over the telephone before an appointment is given.
The NHS is trialling swabbing in the community with the view to roll out nationally to make this process quicker and easier.
