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A DELEGATION may travel down from Blaenau Gwent to Cardiff Bay to discuss “the shambles” of a bus service in the county borough.

This Wales area has had a Covid outbreak in all council-owned care homes The facilities have been closed to new admissions at various points during the pandemic 10:05, 27 APR 2021 Updated Sign up to FREE email alerts from Wales Online - Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy notice All 15 council-owned care homes in Blaenau Gwent have experienced a Covid outbreak over the past year. A county b...

Despite there having previously been outbreaks in all the care homes Ms Hoskins said that the council doesn’t currently have any outbreaks. The council has also seen a 26 per cent decrease, since February 2020, in beds occupied in care homes, despite the number of beds offered increasing. In February 2020 there were 468 beds offered and 444 beds occupied. In February 2021 there were 480 beds offered and 329 beds occupied. Cllr Derrick Bevan said he was concerned by the number of beds occupied because it was a “massive drop”. He said: “People are a bit afraid to go into care ...