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1st December 2020LATEST: COVID-19 rate in Maidstone keeps on rising
Today’s Kent County Council infection figures show the Covid 19 rate in Maidstone is still rising steadily and has now hit 322.4 per 100,000 population. This means more than 550 ...
30th November 2020CORONAVIRUS: New testing centre opens up on Maidstone housing estate
A COVID-19 testing centre has opened up in Maidstone. It is located at the Shepway Youth and Community Centre car park in Cumberalnd Ave, Shepway. It is only open to those ...
LATEST: Kent virus cases now top England average - Maidstone jumps to 232
COVID-19 cases across Kent have risen to 277.9 per 100,000 and now top the England average of 263.3 Withintwo days, the Maidstone rate per 100,000 has risen from 199 to ...
LATEST: Maidstone Covid-19 rate jumps to 199.0 and rising
COVID infection rates continue to rise across Kent. Maidstone hasjumped to 199.0 per 100,000 by November 12 and rising, according to KCC. The 100,000 rate across mid ...
HEALTH: West Malling brother and sister win NHS poster competition
A BROTHER and sister are regional winners of a competition designed to encourage youngsters into the National Health Service (NHS) as a career. Austin Smith (11) and sister Violet (9) of West ...
FIGURES: Covid-19 cases rise in Maidstone - but below national average
CORONAVIRUS continues to spreadin Maidstone with 57 more positive tests in the week ending November 6 compared with the previous week. There were 248 in total. The rate per 100,000 ...
Animals moved to make way for housing dying in Mote Park - admits council
SMALL mammals re-homed from housing development land to Mote Park are meeting a sad end – and Maidstone Borough Council now says they must go elsewhere. A recent Kent ecological survey ...
LATEST: Maidstone's growing virus problems - almost doubling weekly
Maidstone’s confirmed Covid-19 infections almost doubled by the week over the past three weeks. By October 30 they had jumped to 110.6 per 100,000 (61.7 last week). The Maidstone total ...
TOXIC WEEDKILLER: Council faces call for ban by Green Party
MAIDSTONE Green Party has launched a petition calling for the county council to stop using a toxic weedkiller. The group sent the petition, which has more than 1,000 signatures, to Kent County ...
CORONAVIRUS: Maidstone figures go up but remain fraction of national average
THE number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Maidstone more than doubled in the past week (to October 24) to 61.7 per 100,000 - but massively below the current national ...