A woman has been charged to appear in court after a man and his dog were attacked on Hob Moor in York.
North Yorkshire Police officers arrested a 51-year-old woman at an address in York at 2.25pm on Wednesday 10 June, a day after the incident took place.
She has been charged with racially aggravated assault and harassment of the dog owner.
She has also been charged with causing unnecessary suffering to an animal by allegedly kicking the dog.
The woman, who is from the York area, is due at York Magistrates’ Court next month.
TWO additional deaths have been announced by the York Hospital Trust today. They both occurred on Sunday. The cumulative second wave fatality total has now reached 47 at the York and Scarborough hospitals.
FIFTY TWO (52) additional positive test results announced today.
Case numbers are now slowly reducing.
There have been no major adverse changes in any neighbourhood although four remain above national average case rate levels.
Other statistics are not yet available
More on the revised figures announced yesterday
It now seems clear that the major retrospective increase in the number of cases in the City was linked to positive test results at York University.
The case distribution map (below) is now showing 372 cases there during the week ending 14th October. That is pretty much off the scale by way of comparison with other neighbourhoods.
It appears that many students had not registered in York with a GP and that their test result had initially been allocated to their home towns.
Government case distribution map mid October
The way that cases are allocated geographically has made little difference to figures recorded during the last few days.
Outbreak management meeting tomorrow
The Councils Coronavirus outbreak management board is meeting tomorrow. No papers for the meeting have been published yet but is likely to be a significant one against a background of case numbers beginning to creep up again in some York neighbourhoods.
Residents will expect to see a clear path forward covering the remainder of the lockdown period, the return to the tiered approach on 3rd December and plans for the Christmas period.
The York University is likely to come under scrutiny with pressures to temporarily close the campus mounting. The pressure is event greater now that new figures have revealed the sheer size of the epidemic at Heslington which occurred in October.
Residents will hope to learn more about the most vulnerable locations for COVID contact. This information should be available now from the local authorities “test and trace” system.
Finally, many will hope to see more information from the managers of local hospitals. Performance information should be provided with a separate analysis for the York and Scarborough sites.
