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From swimming pool closures to bin collections and protecting the homeless - how Manchester town hall is preparing for the coronavirus peak
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manchestereveningnews.co.ukMuseums, art galleries, day centres and swimming pools could be shut as Manchester town hall looks to focus all its resources on ensuring vulnerable people are protected during the coronavirus outbreak.
The council has set up a ‘control room’ to oversee social care and ensure it knows how many care workers are available and where they are in the city, as it works round the clock to plan for the pandemic’s peak.
Council leader Sir Richard Leese said ‘a lot of things will simply stop happening’ for a period as bosses redeploy their workforce to protecting the most vulnerable people.
The M.E.N. understands that could include the temporary closure of a range of ‘non essential’ services, with recycling collections potentially disrupted as
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