A dispersal order has been put in place, and police have warned they will seize alcohol from people entering parks in Nottingham, after large crowds gathered in the city’s Arboretum as lockdown restrictions were eased.
Local councillor David Mellen said a “selfish minority” had abused the easing of restrictions, adding: “We have all made sacrifices over the last year to keep each other safe.
“Over 600 local people have died due to the virus, we owe it to their families, to each other and to frontline workers not to jeopardise the strides we have made towards reducing the spread of Covid by acting so thoughtlessly and recklessly.”
Nottinghamshire Police Assistant Chief Constable Steve Cooper added that he would like to “remind people that we are still only partly out of lockdown measures”.
Elsewhere, Canada and the German state of Berlin have stopped giving people under the age 55 the AstraZeneca jab, following a small number of rare but serious blood clots after vaccinations. Howard Njoo, Canada’s deputy chief public health officer, told a media briefing: “We are pausing the use of AstraZeneca vaccine to adults under 55 years of age pending further risk benefit analysis.”
