New council leader discusses dealing with coronavirus and the future of Merthyr Tydfil
Councillor Lisa Mytton has been elected the new leader of the council by fellow councillors
11:38, 4 FEB 2021 (Image: Lisa Mytton)
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They were responsible for tasking the testing teams to meet the requirements given by Merthyr Tydfil Council. They also had to track the teams’ movements, log incidents and liaise with Joint Military Command (JMC) Wales to ensure that all RAF personnel’s welfare was catered for. Sgt Oldham, who also received an award and was one of 170 RAF personnel to support Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, NHS Wales, the Welsh Government and the UK Department for Health and Social Care, said: “We’re proud that we’ve been able to help test thousands of people in Merthyr and help make the military operation there work smoothly. It’s great that as locally-based RAF Reservists we could step in and help in the fight against coronavirus.”
They were responsible for tasking the testing teams to meet the requirements given by Merthyr Tydfil Council. They also had to track the teams’ movements, log incidents and liaise with Joint Military Command (JMC) Wales to ensure that all RAF personnel’s welfare was catered for. Sgt Oldham, who was one of 170 RAF personnel to support Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council, NHS Wales, the Welsh Government and the UK Department for Health and Social Care, said: “We’re proud that we’ve been able to help test thousands of people in Merthyr and help make the military operation there work smoothly. It’s great that as locally-based RAF Reservists we could step in and help in the fight against coronavirus.”
I think everybody knows somebody who has died of COVID, Joyce Lewis tells me.
She s part of a community in Wales that has spent most of this year labelled a COVID hotspot .
Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Wales bringing in new lockdown We know quite a few people who have died. It s quite frightening really. At one time the phone was going oh so and so has passed away - it was a shock.
On paper, Merthyr s problem is clear: in the seven days between the 6th and 12th of December, the case rate per 100,000 was 1,032: a staggeringly high number.