Indoor care home visits are being reintroduced across Tayside from tomorrow.
Families will be able to visit loved ones inside at care facilities for the first the first time in months after the lifting of the restriction was postponed in the wake of the Coupar Angus coronavirus outbreak.
Care homes can again welcome indoor visitors from Saturday September 5 as long as they have had their reopening plans and risk assessments reviewed and signed off by NHS Tayside’s Health Protection Team.
Dr Daniel Chandler, associate director of public health, said: “We have been able to make this decision thanks to the exceptional efforts of our contact tracing colleagues both locally and nationally.
“We have been able to map and investigate all new cases of COVID-19 across Tayside which gives us the confidence to reintroduce indoor visiting at care homes.
“We know this will be a great comfort to many people of Tayside, who can now visit their loved ones indoors.
“We will keep the situation under close review and will continue to work alongside care homes, the three Health and Social Care Partnerships and the Care Home Clinical Care Professional Oversight Team.”
Families are advised to contact individual care homes for visiting arrangements.
