THE Welsh Government have published new advice to extremely vulnerable people who were previously shielding in Wales. As of today, the Welsh Government recommend that those people no longer attend work or school outside of home.
Letters will be sent out to those people in the shielding catergory by the chief medical officer for Wales, and they can be used as evidence for the purpose of claiming statutory sick pay. The advice is particularly relevant for those vulnerable people whose work requires them to be in regular or sustained contact with other people, or where individuals share a poorly ventilated workspace for long periods.
Updated: Tue 22nd Dec
This article is old - Published: Tuesday, Dec 22nd, 2020
People who were ‘shielding’ earlier this year have been advised to no longer attend work or school outside the home.
The updated advice has been published by Welsh Government this afternoon and notes that “this is particularly the case for those whose work requires them to be in regular or sustained contact with other people, or where individuals share a poorly ventilated workspace for long periods.”
The full statement from the Health Minister Vaughan Gething is copied below in full, it notes that people will be getting new letters in a similar process that took place earlier this year.