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Posted: Thu 29th Apr 2021 Health board calls on employers to be “sympathetic to requests” for staff to take time off to be vaccinated Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board is calling on “employers across the region to be sympathetic to requests for their staff to take time off to attend vaccination appointments”. So far around 70% of adults in North Wales have now received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine – with the health board stating that it “remains on course to offer vaccination to the remaining adult population well before the Welsh Government’s end of July mil...

Menu   Latest Covid-19 vaccine update from BCUHB: Progress, appeal to employees and variation in vaccination rates between local authority areas A resident receives an injection of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. Picture: Nick Potts/PA Wire. ABOUT 70 per cent of adults in North Wales have now received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) say they remain on course to offer vaccination to the remaining adult population "well before" the Welsh Government’s end of July milestone. Gill Harris, executive Director...

Chile has designated pregnant women a COVID-19 vaccination priority and this week began issuing Pfizer doses to those with underlying health issues in their second or third trimesters. Chile's top public health official Paula Daza said women were being inoculated with the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine since more information existed about its safety for pregnant women.

A resident receives an injection of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine. Picture: Nick Potts/PA Wire. ABOUT 70 per cent of adults in North Wales have now received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine. Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) say they remain on course to offer vaccination to the remaining adult population "well before" the Welsh Government’s end of July milestone. Gill Harris, executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery, said: "We are continuing to work as quickly as we can with the supply we have and I would like to thank everyone for their patience...

The national picture: Wales has reported no further Covid-related deaths in the last 24 hours for the fourth time in the last eight days. Wales' case rate has dropped to its lowest since September 1, with 11.9 per 100,000 people testing positive, while weekly average case numbers are also at their lowest for eight months. PHW confirmed 35 new cases on Wednesday and no deaths. Wales is now averaging about 50 Covid cases a week, compared to about 3,500 over the same period in December. The number of people who have died with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic remains at 5,514 w...