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[DdraigGoch]

The old one filled up before we could link a new one but here we are.

No they haven't changed police haunting beaches here today to make sure we walked, cycled there, ironically the youths are partying on the beaches in the evening, leaving all their rubbish for others to pickup sigh

@CassandraKnew I 100% agree with this. Absolute madness.

@justasking111

No they haven't changed police haunting beaches here today to make sure we walked, cycled there, ironically the youths are partying on the beaches in the evening, leaving all their rubbish for others to pickup sigh

I cycled into Llandudno mid morning and there were loads of cars parked along Colwyn Road near the lifeboat station. Very few actually on the Prom where the hotels are. Maybe the police haven't been checking so far out of town and people have cottoned on.

@CeeJay81

All areas under 100 per 100,000 today and less than 200 cases over all. Hoping they loosen the restrictions slightly for Easter hols. I'm happy with outdoor stuff, would love to have a couple of friends over to the garden for my birthday.

Some of the areas who had it really bad in the recent past (Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Wrexham) are now only in the 40s/50s/60s with low positivity rates to match. Even Anglesey which had been climbing has dropped down significantly.

Case numbers are looking so good.
Does anyone know if the recent figures for gwynedd & môn include the hospital outbreak? If so, community figures are really good.

Surely they will have to ease some restrictions at the next announcement if they stay like this? I wonder if we’ll hear about the next phase for schools on Monday? I’m sure they promised them 2 weeks notice, so hopefully we should get the plan for the 15th then.

We are planning on going rogue tomorrow and driving somewhere different for a walk on the way to do our shopping. It feels so elicit! Like we’re planning a robbery and not an amble along the cycle path 😂

@Pandapotato

Case numbers are looking so good. Does anyone know if the recent figures for gwynedd & môn include the hospital outbreak? If so, community figures are really good.

Surely they will have to ease some restrictions at the next announcement if they stay like this? I wonder if we’ll hear about the next phase for schools on Monday? I’m sure they promised them 2 weeks notice, so hopefully we should get the plan for the 15th then.

We are planning on going rogue tomorrow and driving somewhere different for a walk on the way to do our shopping. It feels so elicit! Like we’re planning a robbery and not an amble along the cycle path 😂

We're the same, I promised my daughters we could drive 1.5 miles to a slightly flatter area for them to practice their bikes and I feel like I'm planning some sort of heist. Even though my Facebook is full of people miles from home on walks and noone I know has been stopped.

Does anyone know if the recent figures for gwynedd & môn include the hospital outbreak? If so, community figures are really good.
The cases do seem higher in Bangor South and Menai Bridge (180/190 per 100k) so that would indicate that quite a few were hospital-related. That said though, Criccieth is at 101 per 100k and no staff at YG would live that far away. Highest areas in the north currently are in the Llanfairfechan & Penmaenmawr and the Llangollen & Llandrillo wards with over 200 per 100k.

@ImAllOut it’s so funny. We definitely wouldn’t make good criminals!

@DdraigGoch plenty of people travel from areas like cricieth & the llŷn to work in Bangor. That’s how it is in a rural area.
Would the numbers from the outbreak link to the patients local area, rather than the hospital’s? Who knows I guess!
Either way the numbers are looking promising. The general trend is downwards and that is excellent news 🙂

Anglesey has a population of 70,000 so when they quote cases per 100,000 they have to multiply the actual number of cases by 1 + (30,000/70,000) to make the ratio up

One care home had 90 actual cases, so that one incident becomes 128 cases per 100,000 for the whole island. It's actually 90/70,000 = 0.13%. Which sounds more scary? 128 cases (for 90 cases) or 0.13%?

Wibble.

[quote Pandapotato]@ImAllOut it’s so funny. We definitely wouldn’t make good criminals!

@DdraigGoch plenty of people travel from areas like cricieth & the llŷn to work in Bangor. That’s how it is in a rural area.
Would the numbers from the outbreak link to the patients local area, rather than the hospital’s? Who knows I guess!
Either way the numbers are looking promising. The general trend is downwards and that is excellent news 🙂[/quote]
Even clinical staff? I don't know how it works for all grades but I know that for example Junior Doctors have to be within a ten minute or so drive.

@DdraigGoch nurses, physios, OT’s, social workers, podiatrists, audiologists, radiologists, midwives, business support staff, catering, porters, electricians.................... so many cogs in the machine.

I still can't imagine that it's in significant numbers. That said, in areas of low population an insignificant number can look bad on a map - we're only talking about single figures here.

Case rates continue to drop, all areas of Wales are now below 90 cases per 100k. Even areas which were causing concern are dropping fast.

Are we due to get some news today about the next phase for schools? If they are going to have more pupils in on the 15th, the 2 weeks notice to schools should come today.
Fingers crossed more kids can get back to their education and seeing their friends.

@Pandapotato

Are we due to get some news today about the next phase for schools? If they are going to have more pupils in on the 15th, the 2 weeks notice to schools should come today. Fingers crossed more kids can get back to their education and seeing their friends.

I have been online via Twitter and on the gov website and can`t see anything yet.

I work in FE in Wales and we have some guidance but it's incredibly vague. Senior management looking for clarity today

Merthyr council have told schools that KS2 are back on 15th. Hopefully this will be followed up by something official from Welsh government.

I am in a Merthyr school but secondary and we have heard nothing official - or rather I haven't. I am looking forward to having some of my classes back. Have had a difficult day with technology refusing to play ball. Wouldn't have the problem if I was in school. Frustrated today!

I think we have has the notice when they declared the intention for ks2 and exam years to go back in the briefing in half term. We will just have it confirmed in the next briefing I think. Numbers are falling so they have no reason to put the brakes on and u turn on what they announced for the 15th

@DrMadelineMaxwell

I think we have has the notice when they declared the intention for ks2 and exam years to go back in the briefing in half term. We will just have it confirmed in the next briefing I think. Numbers are falling so they have no reason to put the brakes on and u turn on what they announced for the 15th

We have a meeting later this week about it, so am assuming we will be back with some pupils in 2 weeks. 😊

We are assuming that what they said about the 15th stands unless told otherwise and are planning to have our ks2 classes then. I'm also hoping that DD's y11 are back, although I await to hear whether it's full classes or a rota or what as some high schools have said in interviews they are doing different things (N Wales).

She needs to be back at school. So do I.

@DdraigGoch

I still can't imagine that it's in significant numbers. That said, in areas of low population an insignificant number can look bad on a map - we're only talking about single figures here.

Case rates continue to drop, all areas of Wales are now below 90 cases per 100k. Even areas which were causing concern are dropping fast.

Wales has a population of 3.1m so 31 lots of 100,000 at 90 cases each lot that's 2,790 cases. 2,790/3,100,00 represents 0.09% of the population.

We are still in lockdown for a one-eleventh of 1% problem? How are we ever going to get out of this? What is the NHS for? Where does all that money go?

Where does the money go, well a lot goes on paying out compensation when things go wrong for the patient

It's absurd that they are still claiming we're in alert level 4 with such low case numbers and high vaccination numbers.

Vaccines have slowed right down, 2nd doses eeking them out, 3 or four weeks before we get going again, vaccines for the vulnerable, that might explain why we're stuck at high alert