North Wales ‘getting over the peak’ of coronavirus after significant impact

The Health Minister has said North Wales appears to be getting over the peak of the virus.

A week ago First Minister Mark Drakeford warned that the summit was possibly being reached in the region.

However, on Thursday the chief executive of NHS Wales indicated it was as a result of more testing being carried out rather than a late surge in cases.

Today North.Wales asked Health Minister Vaughan Gething for further clarification on the situation in the area.

We also asked if it would be possible to share data such as the number of hospital admissions, people in intensive care units and the amount who have recovered.

He said: “I’ll happily make sure we can provide some figures on where we are on hospital figures, hospital intakes, because we have got those figures by health board area.

“It did look like when I last looked, that what we’re seeing is it is getting over the peak within North Wales, which is good news of course.

“We’re still in the position where North Wales has had a significant impact.

“But, less so than the the three health boards in the south east corner – with Cardiff and Vale, Cwm Taf and Aneurin Bevan still the most significantly affected, in terms of not just the numbers of deaths, unfortunately taking place, but also in terms of the wider harm that has been caused on a per head basis as well.”

The minister reiterated he would provide the extra data on the situation in North Wales to allow comparisions with other areas.

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