Llandough and Cogan recorded 21 cases, the same number as Upper Penarth. Lower Penarth and Sully recorded 17 - the same as Dinas. The news comes as Cardiff and the Vale’s health board have ramped up the vaccine roll-out across the region, with all 60 GP practices in the area offering coronavirus vaccines. Cardiff and the Vale Health Board has committed to offering the first dose of the vaccine to everybody in the first four JCVI priority groups by mid-February, dependent upon supply, with every GP practice in the area dishing out vaccinations. The first four JCVI priority groups are: residents in a care home for older adults and their carers, people aged
Other countries have made face covering compulsory in all public spaces and in crowded outdoor areas EVERY precaution must now be taken to minimise transmission of coronavirus, including telling the public to wear face covering outdoors, medical leaders have said. Professor Mike Griffin, president of the Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh, said it “would be crazy” not to take every possible step to reduce infections during winter given the added risk of a faster-spreading variant, as well as the prospect of life-saving vaccinations in the near future. Prof Griffin said this should include wearing facemasks in public spaces outdoors as well as indoors, and delaying the return of university students to campuses in January after halls of residence were associated with a spike in cases at the end of summer.