A statement from Royal Glamorgan Hospital 👇 URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT Temporary service restrictions to be put in place at Royal Glamorgan Hospital as part of strong action to respond to COVID-19 outbreak Significant temporary service restrictions will be put in place at...
More areas of Wales are being put into local lockdown following a rise in coronavirus cases, the health minister has said. Vaughan Gething said the measures for Denbighshire, Flintshire, Conwy and Wrexham would affect another half a million people. From 6pm on...
6 new cases of Coronavirus have been recorded in Herefordshire, taking the total number of cases recorded in the county to 1,017 since the start of the outbreak. In the United Kingdom, there has been another 7,143 cases of the virus reported in the last 24 hours - a...
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has said that the government is going to work with universities to ensure students will be able to get home for Christmas. However he did say that there "may be requirements for some students to self-isolate at the end of term"....
Conservative Party MP Gillian Keegan has warned that it could be a long time until nightclubs and some other industries can reopen. Gillian Keegan told Sky News, "It is hard to see how nightclubs will open until we have some kind of long-term way to deal with...
More than a million people around the world have now died in the coronavirus pandemic. In the United Kingdom, around 17 million people - more than a quarter of the population - are living under tougher coronavirus restrictions after new measures on socialising came...
Three new cases of Coronavirus have been recorded in Herefordshire, taking the total number of positive cases of the virus to 1,011 since the outbreak started. In the UK there were 4,044 new cases of COVID-19 reported on Monday - and 13 deaths. Case figures are are...
Three more counties in Wales are to be put into local lockdown. Neath Port Talbot, Vale of Glamorgan and Torfaen will join many other parts of the UK in being subject to localised COVID-19 restrictions. The action will affect more than 360,000 people and means half of...
Public Health England have confirmed that a further four cases of Coronavirus have been confirmed in Herefordshire, taking the total number of cases recorded in the county to 1,006 since the start of the outbreak. In the United Kingdom, there were 6,042 new...
The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Herefordshire has reached 1,002. Thats the total number of cases recorded since the start of the pandemic. Four further cases of the virus have been recorded in the past 24 hours in the county, following on from the one...
The R rate, which shows the Coronavirus rate of transmission across the United Kingdom, has increased this week, to between 1.2-1.5, up from 1.1-1.4 last week. The figures are released each week by SAGE. The R number indicates the average number of people each person...
The Welsh Government has confirmed that Cardiff and Swansea will go into local lockdown from 6pm on Sunday. The lockdown will come into effect in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire on Saturday Under the restrictions, people will not be able to enter or leave the areas without...
Cardiff is on the verge of entering the Welsh Government's coronavirus "red zone", the city's council leader has warned. The number of cases per 100,000 population now stands at 38.2, while 3.8 per cent of tests are positive. Hospital emergency department attendance...
Novavax is ready to start its Phase 3 trial of a possible COVID-19 vaccine in the UK. The US firm will get 10,000 volunteers aged between 18 and 84 over the next four to six weeks. Half of the volunteers in the Novavax trial will have two shots of NVX-CoV2373 with...
Matt Hancock has urged people not to have sex outside of 'established relationships - but don’t worry Herefordians, Herefordshire isn’t in a local lockdown just yet! Asked about the government's advice that only couples who are in 'established' relationships should be...
Denmark, Iceland, Curaçao and Slovakia removed from safe travel list People arriving in the UK from Denmark, Iceland, Curaçao and Slovakia from 4am on Saturday will need to self-isolate for two weeks. The Department for Transport says...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced that the government and firms will continue to top up the wages of workers who have not been able to return to the workplace full time due to the virus The Jobs Support Scheme, which will replace the furlough scheme when it ends,...
This is national guidance that applies to England only – people in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland should follow the specific rules in those parts of the UK. If you live in an area that is experiencing a local COVID-19 outbreak and where...
The much-anticipated NHS Covid-19 contact-tracing app has launched in England and Wales. Based on APIs from Apple and Google, the app uses Bluetooth technology to track time and distance between smartphone devices. It also offers a QR code check-in capability at bars,...
A case of Coronavirus has been confirmed by Wigmore Primary School. A letter was sent home to parents today. The letter said: I wanted to write to you at the earliest opportunity to make you aware that a member of our community has returned a positive test for...