May 17, 2020 - 1673 views
Another 43 local cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in Conwy and Denbighshire during the past 24 hours. 20 cases were in Conwy and 13 in Denbighshire. Yesterday 50 cases were recorded solely in Conwy county.
Overall 162 cases new cases have been tracked across the Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board region.
This is despite Public Health Wales saying that Wales as a whole appears to be levelling off and that the country is past the peak.
During the past few days there has been a marked acceleration in new cases and there are fears that the North Wales spike in COVID-19 is building. In recent days the picture in some other neighbouring authorities has suggested a similar trend.
Now more than ever local people are being reminded to excercise the highest precautions, wash their hands regularly and to stay at home except for excercising and essential journeys for food and providing assistance to vulnerable people and groups.
Dr Robin Howe, Incident Director for the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak response at Public Health Wales, said:
“Public Health Wales welcomes the announcement yesterday by the Health Minister of the extension of Coronavirus testing to all care home residents and staff.
“In conjunction with the Welsh Government’s ‘Test, Trace, Protect’ strategy published last week, Public Health Wales will continue to work in partnership with our communities, the Welsh Government, the wider NHS and local government in Wales to focus on protecting the health of the people of Wales as we support the implementation of the strategy.
“We have been working hard to increase our testing capacity, and as of Monday our capacity was at 5,330 tests a day in Wales. We know there is more to do as demand increases, and we will continue to ramp up this capacity."
