Council issue coronavirus bulletin with localised information for the county borough
This article is old - Published: Tuesday, Jan 12th, 2021
A third detailed briefing on the pandemic situation locally has been published by the local authority.
The below update was published yesterday part of the new twice weekly update system, and echos recent updates with community transmission in households thought to be the driver of the high local covid figures.
The full update from yesterday afternoon is copied below, with all bolding and underlining of points is copied from Wrexham Council’s email, and we intend to do similar for future updates:
OVER a dozen residents at a care home in Wrexham have died amid a Covid outbreak. A total of 13 residents of Hillbury Care Home have died after contracting the virus, leaving its staff heartbroken . Cindy Clutton, care home manager, says she and the rest of her dedicated team at Hillbury Care Home, are “utterly devastated” by the tragic toll as the new highly infectious mutant strain of the virus sweeps through Wrexham. She said her staff had battled valiantly to keep the virus at bay at Hillbury since early March. Over the summer they had managed to contain an outbreak without any loss of life when five people caught the illness.
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AS we enter the New Year, Public Health Wales show exactly where coronavirus has been circulating within Flintshire and Wrexham communities. The mapping feature was first added to the daily update provided by health officials in response to COVID-19 in October. It presents data broken down beyond the standard local authority areas that people could previously access and now shows how individual communities compare. The data is gathered using Office of National Statistics figures of middle layer super output areas (MSOAs) and present the rolling number of cases in either a seven-day or 21-day window. Darker areas indicate higher concentrations of the virus whilst lighter areas show lower transmission rates. The map details state that case numbers are suppressed for any MSOA where there were fewer than three identified cases.