With the start of British Summertime stay local rules will lift in
Wales from Saturday 27th March and unrestricted travel within
Wales will be allowed. It means Wales will
be the first UK nation to scrap travel restrictions within country boundaries since
lockdowns were re-imposed in winter. Self-contained tourist accommodation
including many hotels and cottages will also be able to open on Saturday. But
non-essential travel to and from other UK nations will be banned for at least
two weeks. This will also see rules on the number of people who can meet
outdoors including in private gardens changed. Six people from two households
will be able to meet up, an increase from the current four-person limit.
Three more people have died with coronavirus in Wales, reports Public Health Wales. It brings the total number of deaths reported to the health body since the pandemic began, to 5,498. A further 190 cases have been reported in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of positive tests to 208,694. Two of the deaths were in Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board area while the other was at Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board area. The seven day rolling case rate for the whole of Wales has fallen to 38.5 per 100,000 people with an average testing positivity rate of 3.1%.
Of the new cases, there were 30 in Swansea, 22 in Cardiff, 18 on Anglesey, 15 in Neath Port Talbot and 11 in Gwynedd. Merthyr Tydfil has the highest seven day case rate at 134.3, followed by Anglesey at 91.4, Blaenau Gwent on 70.1, and Flintshire at 63.4.
A further 21,432
people have now received a first vaccination and the total now stands at 1,341,620 which is equivalent to 42.5% of the total population. A
further 10,868 people have now had a
second vaccination, bringing that total now stands at 389,663 which is equivalent to 12.3%
of the total population.
Today’s numbers of Covid-19 cases in the local areas of Llanelli…
Thought for the Day…
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