Coronavirus morning headlines as Welsh 6pm pubs curfew and alcohol ban to be reviewed
The Welsh Government cabinet is to meet today for its formal review of the rules
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Here are the coronavirus morning headlines for Thursday, December 17, as ministers are to review the 6pm hospitality curfew and alcohol ban.
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An extra 11,000 positive Covid tests are missing from official figures in Wales, meaning cases in the last week could be twice as high as thought, The Guardian reports.
Public health wales (PHW) says the very large backlog of COVID-19 cases were processed at lighthouse laboratories between 9 and 15 December.
It will mean a significant rise in cases will be added to Wales’s figures, which is likely to affect the UK wide coronavirus statistics.
In a statement, the agency said: “today’s delay was related to the maintenance of the NHS Welsh Laboratory Information Management System (WLIMS). This took place on Friday and Saturday (11-12 December) so that essential service upgrades could take place.
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Numbers were not included on top of 11,911 positive cases reported between 9 and 15 December
An extra 11,000 positive coronavirus tests missing from official figures in Wales demonstrate how serious the position in the country is, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said.
Maintenance work on Public Health Wales systems at the end of last week meant the numbers were not included on top of 11,911 positive cases reported by the agency between 9 and 15 December.
Today, Mr Drakeford denied the data had been missing from the country s figures in recent days and was known by the Welsh Government.
He told BBC Breakfast: This was planned upgrading of the computer system, none of the data is missing, everybody who had a positive test in Wales was told that last week, everything was uploaded on to our Track, Trace and Protect system.
Wales Adds 11,468 New CCP Virus Cases in One Day Due to Backlog
And It s Going Back To Full Lockdown After Christmas
Wales reported 11,468 new cases of CCP virus on Thursday, according to the latest update of Public Health Wales’ (PHW) surveillance dashboard.
The large influx of reported cases is due to a backlog of test results caused by a system upgrade that took place on Dec. 11.
“As Public Health Wales has indicated previously, the data delay over the weekend was part of essential maintenance for the wider Welsh NHS led by the NHS Wales Informatics Service,” PHW said on Thursday in a statement.
Sign up to the South Wales Argus daily coronavirus update email newsletter by registeringhere. The affect of the aforementioned system maintenance has also had an effect on rolling weekly case rates data in recent days. But this too has now been updated and makes for stark reading. The all-Wales rolling weekly case rate - for the week to December 12 - is 530.2 per 100,000 population. Three parts of Gwent now have rolling weekly case rates for the same period, of more than 700 per 100,000, with two of these homing in on 800 per 100,000. The latest Gwent case rates are: Newport, 797.8 per 100,000 (fourth highest in Wales); Blaenau Gwent, 790.1 (fifth highest in Wales); Caerphilly, 760.5 (sixth highest in Wales); Torfaen 672.6 (ninth highest in Wales; Monmouthshire, 384.8 (13th highest in Wales).