March 11, 2020 - 1617 views
The Chief Medical Officer for Wales, Dr Frank Atherton, has confirmed that four further patients in Wales have tested positive for coronavirus (COVID -19).
Three of the new cases had returned to Wales from Northern Italy. Two of those are residents in the Powys local authority area, and the other is resident in the Swansea local authority area.
The other new case, resident of the Caerphilly local authority area, has no history of travel to a country where the virus is circulating, and is not known to have had contact with another confirmed case.
The news comes after the coronavirus outbreak was labelled a pandemic by the World Health Organization.
World Health Organisation Chief Executive Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the number of cases outside China had increased 13 fold in the past two weeks.
Updated on 11 Mar at 16.30.
