Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire A POWER outage has caused delays in Cardiff and the Vale’s three mass vaccination centres. Cardiff and the Vale University Health Board shared an urgent message, which said: “Due to a national IT outage we are experiencing problems with the systems at our Mass Vaccination Centres which is unfortunately resulting in queues as we process our patients. “We are trying to get people through as quickly as possible so please bear with us.” There is currently one mass vaccination centre in the Vale, which opened at a leisure centre in Barry three days ago (on Monday, February 8).
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PENARTH saw the highest rise in cases in the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board region and the second highest figure in Wales in recent days. In the seven days up to February 5 Penarth recorded 36 new cases – up from 12 on the previous week and by far the highest number in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. If not for 42 cases in Holywell and Bagillt in the north of the country, Penarth would have recorded the highest number of Covid cases in Wales for that week. It came as Vale police officers pleaded with people not to travel to the seafront for the third week in succession.
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Fiona Kinghorn, Executive Director of Public Health at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board, said: “Today marks two months to the day since the Mass Vaccination Programme began here in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, and I am delighted that we have reached another important milestone with the opening of our third Mass Vaccination Centre. “I would like to thank every individual who has contributed to our excellent progress during the past two months, I am incredibly proud of what has so far been collectively achieved. “We remain on course to have offered the first dose of the vaccine to everyone in JCVI Priority groups 1-4 by mid-February, and will continue to work hard to vaccinate the population of Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan as quickly as possible beyond this.