640,259 total vaccinations have been administered in North Wales MORE than three quarters of adults in North Wales have now received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) remain on course to offer vaccination to the remaining adult population before the end of July. Gill Harris, executive director of Nursing and Midwifery, said on May 11: This is the largest vaccination programme ever undertaken in the NHS and we simply could not have protected so many people so quickly without the expertise and dedication of our primary care colleagues in GP surgeries, Local Vaccination Centres and community pharmacies.
This will happened on Tuesday, May 11. Venue Cymru was transformed into Ysbyty Enfys to treat Covid-19 patients. Due to the low rates of Covid-19 in North Wales, the facility and oxygen system are no longer required. A spokesperson from Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board said: For safety reasons, the leased oxygen tanks cannot be transported away from the site with oxygen inside. Ysbyty Enfys. Picture: Paul Sampson This standard process of depressurisation may be noisy and, depending on the weather conditions, can take up to a few hours. An oxygen cloud will be visible from a distance, however we wanted to reassure the public that this is a controlled and safe procedure undertaken by the equipment owners.
Latest and hopefully last detailed council pandemic update issued as Wrexham looks towards recovery
Wrexham Council have issued what hopefully will be the last detailed pandemic briefing as things locally move from a ‘response’ to a ‘recovery’ from it.
The updates first started officially on the 4th of January after we made data public that was being circulated to councillors at the end of December, and have detailed the heights of the pandemic so far locally and subsequent drops in cases and deaths.
The latest update issued yesterday is hoped to be the last of the regular updates, with the council explaining it was the last such update, “If cases remain low there will be less information to share about the disease itself, but more about how the Council and people of Wrexham are transitioning from a response to the pandemic to a recovery from it.
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There are no reported cases of ‘variants of concern’ in Wrexham, the council have said.
The information has emerged via the latest local update that has been published by Wrexham Council, detailing the precise local area figures. The council, who run the Test Trace Protect system for Wrexham and therefore have the data on positive cases and their locations and spread, have noted there is no recorded versions of the ‘India’, ‘Brazil’, ‘Bristol, ‘Liverpool’ variants of concern locally.
Generally the Council has observed, “How’s it going? Basically, things are still improving …but we need to remain careful.”