Sussex’s NHS, care providers, councils, police, fire and ambulance services are making an impassioned plea to the public to continue to stay at home to stop the spread of COVID-19.
In an open letter, public services across Sussex urge local communities to stick with Government advice.
With the warm weather expected to remain into the weekend, and the fifth week of lock down drawing to a close, Sussex Local Resilience Forum organisations are turning to the public to play their part in combatting the pandemic.
The letter reads:
To our local communities,
As another warm weekend approaches, we need your help. Please, stay home, protect the NHS and save lives.
Across Sussex, all of our organisations are working hard to keep you safe and well, and make sure you get the essential services you need.
We are your NHS, your care providers, your councils, your police, fire and ambulance services, working together with the military, private and voluntary services to protect you and prevent deaths in our county from COVID-19.
Our staff are working hard to prevent the spread of the virus. Our nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals are working around the clock to save lives.
Our key workers are putting themselves forward every day to ensure people can be cared for, children educated and looked after, and communities given access to the things they need.
We thank you for all that you are doing to support us.
The most important thing you can do is to continue following the social distancing rules. Thank you for helping to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in Sussex.
Together, we will get through this.
Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives.
#SussexTogether
Thank you.
ACC Dave Miller
Sussex Resilience Forum Chair
The letter is supported with a video (see below), featuring personal pleas from doctors, nurses, social workers, paramedics, firefighters and other frontline workers tasked with the job of keeping Sussex safe during the pandemic, asking people to work with them as #SussexTogether.
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