Macclesfield has been identified as the most important area to vaccinate children in Cheshire East.

It is as nearly half the parents approached so far in Cheshire East have consented to their children receiving the Covid vaccination in schools.

Mark Bayley, head of service for education infrastructure and outcomes at the council, told Monday's meeting of the children and families committee that 46 per cent had so far agreed.

He added: "A big area of work is the roll-out of vaccinations across Cheshire East in secondary schools for 12 to 16.

"As of the end of last week, 4,500 of those vaccinations have now taken place.

"Last week [there were] over 1,300 and the average consent rate at the moment, across all those schools, is at 46 per cent."

He said it was also possible some people were now using the booking system for children.

Cases have increased in every Macclesfield ward since last week.

There are currently 60 cases in Macclesfield Central alone.

Macclesfield East & Hurdsfield has seen the highest rise, with 79 total cases from the seven days until November 3, up 47 from the previous week.

1. 1% of over 12's have had both coronavirus vaccine doses as of November 6 2021.

Masks have been reintroduced across schools in our town, and Cheshire East.

Cllr Sally Handley (Crewe St Barnabas, Lab) said she had received three notifications on her phone during that morning's committee meeting to say that pupils at the school her children attend had tested positive over the weekend.

"I can see those numbers have gone down since our last committee meeting, but I think it's going to be very interesting to see where we are in a week's time because we've all been off all over the place [during half term] and we've all come back into school."

She said as the figures had gone down the restrictions had changed.

"I had an email last night from the headteacher of my children's school saying we're going to have to increase the measures going back to pre-summer holiday restrictions and practices in the school because of the sharp rise in cases she's had reported over the weekend," Cllr Handley told the committee.

Mr Bayley said many schools still have measures in place and will change them according to the local situation.

"The biggest priority area at the moment is with Macclesfield where we're seeing some spikes there, but that could happen anywhere so we are being as vigilant as we can," he said.

Last week, Cheshire East Council revealed it will be a 'Case by case basis' if Macclesfield kids in their care should be vaccinated without parental consent

You can book or manage your Macclesfield coronavirus jab here.

Macclesfield: We will breakdown the area-by-area figures for case numbers tomorrow.

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