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Chief Medical Officer for Wales, Dr Frank Atherton The four UK chief medical officers, including Chief Medical Officer for Wales Dr Frank Atherton, have said that Covid-19 alert level should move from five, the highest, down to four. They have said “the threat of the NHS and other health services being overwhelmed within 21 days has receded”. This follows advice from the Joint Biosecurity Centre and is made in the light of the most recent data. In a joint statement they said: “The health services across the four nations remain under significant pressure with a high number of patients in hospital, however thanks to the efforts of public we are now seeing numbers consistently declining, and the threat of the NHS and other health services being overwhelmed within 21 days has receded.”
The new variant of coronavirus currently sweeping across parts of England is also a factor in the rapid rise of cases in Wales, a minister has said.
Wales’ health minister Vaughan Gething told BBC News On Sunday that the new variant was “effectively seeded” across the country.
He also said that the decision to place the country immediately into lockdown ahead of Christmas was due to the information that the new strain was leading to faster spread of the virus.
Mr Gething added: “Unfortunately our rates are around about 600 per 100,000, they are very high across the country with large concentrations in the south of Wales but also north-east Wales has been particularly affected as well.
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THE NEW VARIANT of coronavirus currently sweeping across parts of England is also a factor in the rapid rise of cases in Wales, a minister has said.
Wales’ health minister Vaughan Gething told BBC News On Sunday that the new variant was “effectively seeded” across the country.
He also said that the decision to place the country immediately into lockdown ahead of Christmas was due to the information that the new strain was leading to faster spread of the virus.
Health minister warns new strain of coronavirus is now in every part of Wales
Ministers have been shown evidence that it is much more infectious
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The rapid rise of coronavirus cases across Wales is partly due to the new variant of coronavirus, the Welsh health minister has said.