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Guy Opperman

Mar 15, 2020 • 10 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X

My website is now fully updated for #COVIDー19 #coronavirus assistance to constituents. Please go to the following link for medical advice, business, employer, benefit, + SSP support plus ideas for viral kindness: stay safe team + we will get through this:
guyopperman.co.uk/coronavirus

We have also added in Foreign Office travel advice, a guide to how you look after your neighbours, and supermarket advice from them on why you don’t need to stockpile.
Any additions I will add as we go along 2/

Want to help?
⚙ Are you a manufacturer able to help make #ventilators?

🦠 We will need a massive national effort to combat #Coronavirus + help our #NHS

📞 If you genuinely think you can help + have the capability, then call the BEIS Business Support line - 0300 456 3565 3/

Finally, for now, if you genuinely fear that the worst thing that could happen to you with #COVIDー19 is that you run out of #toiletroll ????
- listen to my wonderful constituent Tony Richards + realise that #Essity have got your bum covered
🧻 🧻 🧻 4/
bbc.co.uk/news/av/busine…

Advice now is v clear:
💻Work from home wherever possible

1⃣4⃣Self-isolate for 14 days if you/ anyone in your home has #COVID19 symptoms

❌Avoid non-essential travel + gatherings 5/

Advice = #schools are not being closed. There are good reasons why:
- the UK chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance says it "may be necessary" to think about school closures, but not now.

Detailed advice for educators / families here 6/: guyopperman.co.uk/coronavirus-ad…

Here is the Chief Medical Officers advice for vulnerable people, guidance on #SocialDistancing + a lot more. Please read 7/:
gov.uk/government/pub…

Clearly this virus is having a massive impact on local businesses+people.
On top of the initial support package announced in the budget last week, the Chancellor will announce more support today, as I understand it.
I will update across our Community via my website/ here 8/

https://twitter.com/foreignoffice/status/1239893142809214977?s=21

Foreign Office new travel advice = avoid all non essential travel 9/

https://twitter.com/foreignoffice/status/1239893142809214977?s=21

https://twitter.com/FCDOGovUK/status/1239893142809214977

The Guidance on #keyworkers is here ⬇️
As always dealing with #CoronaVirus this will require us to work at speed in difficult circumstances but liaise with your school and employer and we will get through this 10/
gov.uk/government/pub…

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