Public Health Wales has issued a statement today about the recent North Wales outbreaks of COVID-19 on Anglesey and in Wrexham which have dominated local headlines for the past week.
Doctor Robin Howe, Incident Director for the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak response at Public Health Wales, said: “Public Health Wales is currently supporting two local outbreaks.
“Following a multi-agency Outbreak Control Team meeting which took place on Wednesday 24 June, a total of 201 cases of Novel Coronavirus have been identified in the workforce associated with the 2 Sisters plant in Llangefni, Anglesey.
“Rapid screening of the workforce continues, with more than 500 samples taken so far. The small increase in cases indicates that the focused track and trace programme is working well.
“We are confident that we have successfully identified the majority of cases associated with the 2 Sisters workforce, and that our tracking and control measures are working to bring the outbreak to a rapid conclusion.
“As focused testing continues we may identify additional cases, but this what we anticipated would happen when any population group is put under close scrutiny. Any increase in the number of cases found in the workforce does not mean that the infection is increasing in the local population as a whole.”
“Testing of the workforce associated with an outbreak of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Wrexham area is continuing.
“The mobile testing unit at the Rowan Foods Ltd site has tested in excess of 1,000 people since Sunday, supplemented by community and postal test services.
"We are in the process of combining information to identify the full scope of the ongoing testing process and total number of positive cases. To date a total of 97 cases have been identified."
Overall across Wales 125 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported with 67 of these in North Wales. 4 new cases have been tested positive in Conwy and there are no new cases in Denbighshire.
Sadly there have been 6 new deaths in the country - a total of 1,497 fatalities so far.