Cllr Roy Gerstner – Community Activist

This year – less invitations and a smaller number of people within the Ivy Leaf.

 
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Cambridgeshire’s Covid-19 infection rate continues to be around the highest it has ever been since the pandemic began.

Ten to 14-year-olds continue to be by far the worst affected as the virus spreads among schoolchildren.

Below we look at how every area of the county is affected.

The 3,401 cases recorded in the week to October 14 was the second highest rolling seven-day number of the whole pandemic – only eclipsed by the 3,584 seen in the week to January 4.

Latest figures, for the week to October 17, show 3,265 cases, up 63 (two per cent) on the previous seven days. The infection rate of 496.8 cases per 100,000 people was above the national average of 465.4.

The number of Covid-19 cases in Fenland for the week to October 17 was 599 – down just one (0.2 per cent) on the previous week.

The infection rate of 586.8 cases per 100,000 people was the highest of any district in Cambridgeshire, with Wisbech South and Peckover worst hit, with 93 cases, up from 52.

March East, with 28, had the fewest.

Fenland has recorded:

• 11,532 confirmed cases since the pandemic began, as of October 22, 2021
• 413 cases in the five days from October 18-22, according to daily case data, which is subject to change
• 225 deaths by October 22 within 28 days of a positive test, the last of which were on October 19 and 18
• 250 deaths, as of October 8, in which Covid-19 is mentioned on the death certificate

  
  

Lift off after COVID for the enthusiastic group.

WTC Offices located on Queen Street have (2) Electric Vehicle charging points.
These points are fed via the Solar Panels on the roof and provide FREE electric charging to everyone with the standard plug and socket.
Todays visitor – nice to see them….

Scaffolding erected this morning –

Fake marketing surveys promising gift cards of up to £100 for filling them out have been impersonating the likes of ASDA, Morrisons and Tesco. Fraudsters have been posing as these well-known supermarkets in order to gain your trust and send you on to potentially dangerous websites.

ASDA phishing email

This email is designed to make you follow the link by promising a large reward in return for doing very little – a common phishing tactic. But this ‘survey’ is not being run by ASDA. 

Morrisons phishing email

Using the same tactics, the fake Morrisons version promises a £90 reward.

Tesco phishing email

The Tesco phishing email is just like the Morrisons one with different logos. Tesco has a dedicated email for customers to forward phishing emails to: phishing@tesco.com. It also has a guide on how to identify scam emails posing as the brand.

Now, according to the organisation “Which”, which has been highlighting this issue recently (and alerting the companies concerned), emails are circulating promising Primark gift card ‘rewards’, these are fake and have absolutely nothing to do with the high street store. 

Primark phishing email

As is often the case, the phishing email is promising big rewards for doing very little – in this case  ‘Primark Rewards’ in the form of a gift card for £1,384 – saying that you need to ‘activate the delivery’ in order to receive them. But clicking through on scam emails like these is only likely to send you on to potentially dangerous websites that could compromise your personal information and/or bank details.

The email even attempts to deceive you by including ‘your account information’, which may appear legitimate at first glance, but on closer inspection only contains information that’s part of your email address.

“Which” has produced a couple of useful guides about spotting scams and how to try to get your money back:

Guide: how to spot a scam

Guide: how to get your money back after a scam

Think you may have lost money to a scam email? Let your bank know what’s happened immediately, the sooner the better.

You can forward phishing emails to report@phishing.gov.uk.

As noted above, Tesco has its own dedicated email, so you could forward the phishing email to it as well.

Every Day someone in our area gets scammed or phished