News in Grantham

New Wobble Rooms have been set up around Lincolnshire's hospitals to give staff overwhelmed by the coronavirus situation a place to retreat to.

The move is part of United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust's efforts to support its staff members' health and wellbeing during the crisis.

By Dr Matthew Dolling, Intensive Care Consultant, Lincoln County Hospital:

"As the morning shift began I watched the nurses gathering to put on their protective equipment (PPE) in a little room next to the door into the Intensive Care Unit at Lincoln County Hospital. In more normal times this room is an office but instead it now serves as the PPE station before entry into the COVID area.

More than £1 million is set to be invested in local facilities and services for Waltham on the Wolds as part of a new housing development in the village.

The money is being provided by Bellway through the planning agreement for Waltham Heights, a 60-home development off Melton Road, where construction work began in November last year.

More businesses across South Kesteven are receiving government money to help them survive the Coronavirus crisis.

South Kesteven District Council paid out business grants totalling £4.25million to 354 businesses yesterday and more will be paid out this week.

Greater Lincolnshire has had no coronavirus deaths in the county's hospitals for the first time in nearly two weeks.

No fatalities have been recorded at either United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust and Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust in the latest round of daily updates.

Lincolnshire's hospitals boss says he is expecting a surge in coronavirus cases to begin over the next two or three weeks.

On Sunday, there were 87 cases across United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust sites in Lincoln, Grantham and Boston.

Coronavirus has pushed the number of NHS staff away from work at Lincolnshire's hospitals to around 11% of the workforce as testing stations are being set up in the county this week.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust chief executive Andrew Morgan said that as of Sunday, 525 staff members were off, self-isolating or not in work due to COVID-19.

Three more people are reported to have died in Lincolnshire with Coronavirus.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust says the victims were two women and a man.

Businesses in Grantham and across South Kesteven are receiving much-needed government money to help them survive the Coronavirus crisis.

South Kesteven District Council received £32 million of funding from central government to support small business grants on Wednesday.

More than 40 fresh cases of Coronavirus have been confirmed in Lincolnshire this afternoon.

Public Health England revealed the new total as the number of deaths nationally topped 700 over the past 24 hours, pushing the grand total to above 4,000 deaths in the UK.