Government's approach to managing local coronavirus outbreaks

.See Local restrictions: areas with an outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) for a list of areas with additional local restrictions, including information for local authorities, residents and workers about what to do and how to manage the outbreak.The rest of England should follow the .Local authorities may also have put in place local restrictions.

You can find out more about this on your local authority’s website. .Our approach to managing local outbreaks is in 5 parts, which can be scaled up rapidly as needed:Monitoring: the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC) and Public Health England (PHE) examine data on the spread of the disease and people’s behaviour across the country on a daily basis.

Local data is shared with directors of public health in local authorities so they too can monitor what is happening in their area.

It is also available to the public on our .Engagement and communication: if monitoring suggests that there are problems at a local level, the JBC and PHE will engage the relevant local authority to generate a joint understanding of the problem and develop solutions.