Richmond Council leader Gareth Roberts has given his latest Friday address on Covid-19 to the borough.

Thankfully there have been no new deaths directly linked to the virus in the past week.

The number of tests carried out, however, has fallen from 1,909 to 1,590.

In the video Mr Roberts tells people to go straight home after pubs and bars close, and that they must shut at 10pm.

A total of 756 residents of Richmond borough have tested positive for coronavirus since March.

Mr Roberts provided figures for the past seven days when there have been:

• 22 new cases
• No new deaths
• 1,590 people tested
• a positive return rate on those tests of 1.1%.

Watch the two-minute video above or read a transcript of it below.

The discrepancy between the positive return rate, the number of tests conducted and the number of cases identified is explained by people being tested more than once.

You will have seen new measures being announced by the Prime Minister and by the Mayor of London all designed to curb the spread of the virus over the last few days, and perhaps the most eye-catching of them was that pubs, bars and restaurants must close at 10pm.

That's closing, not last orders, not drinking up, closing.

What we want to avoid is a return to the scenes that we saw over the summer, when people took the opportunity to instead use the parks and open spaces as open air drinking areas.

So, please, if you are leaving pubs, clubs and bars at the 10pm, please do consider going straight home.

It's also vital that if you have a smartphone that you download the NHS tracing app, and tap in at places such as hair salons, nail bars, restaurants, bars, pubs, clubs, all of the places where people mingle so that we can ensure that we are using the data to control the spread of the virus.

And, of course, we have to keep following the rules with which we have become familiar:

• Washing our hands wherever possible
• Wearing a face mask or covering on public transport, in shops, supermarkets or other closed public spaces
• Maintaining social distance of two metres
• Maintaining the rule of six – no more than six people gathering indoors or outdoors.

If we follow the rules, we can try to keep the spread of the virus as low as possible in Richmond. Thank you.

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