First minister Mark Drakeford It will be determined on Wednesday whether Wales can relax the coronavirus restrictions.
The country’s current incidence rate is 147 Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people — the UK is the lowest — and it is also one of the countries with the highest vaccination rates in the world.
Last month, the Welsh The government announced that due to the spread of the epidemic, the plan to relax restrictions will be suspended for four weeks. delta Variants across the country.
Mr. Drakeford will confirm in a statement to the Welsh Assembly on Wednesday afternoon whether the postponement to level 1 alert is now possible.
He will also outline the updated coronavirus control plan, which will establish a zero-level alert in the future.
Speaking at Senedd on Tuesday, Mr. Drakeford said that vaccines are “changing” the relationship between Covid-19 patients and the need for hospitalization.
“This is why we are still able to consider further relaxing the current restrictions,” Mr. Drakeford told members.
“But none of us should ignore the risk of a large number of people getting sick every day in the community.
“It increases the risk of new mutations, increases the risk of people’s immunity decline, increases people’s risk of long-term Covid illness, increases the risk of people’s inability to enter the workplace due to falls, sickness, or they have been exposed to sick person.”
Mr. Drakeford described the link between people in need of hospitalization and Covid-19 infection as “just part of the story”.
He added: “We need to continue to pay attention to the scale of the Delta variant in Wales and hundreds of thousands of people who have become ill as a result.”
On Tuesday, 69 people in the Welsh hospital were infected with Covid-19. This number was less than 20 less than a month ago.
Mr. Drakeford said the number of people in Wales suffering from serious discomfort due to the Delta variant “is increasing almost every day”.
“That’s why when cabinet Considering the possibility that we are in Wales, we will proceed in the way we did throughout the pandemic-that is, very carefully consider the evidence we have and take a phased approach,” he added.
The first minister told Senedd that the people of Wales are ready to play a collective role throughout the pandemic.
He described how the Welsh government received letters asking ministers not to give up the “wise precautions” that the country has been following, while others are “deeply anxious” about the cancellation of the rules.
Mr. Drakeford said: “The Welsh mood is not a yearning for a false freedom day.”
“This is still a cautious approach, and people want each of us to continue to play our part.”
