Death toll passes 1,500
FIVE coronavirus deaths were reported in Wales yesterday, bringing the total number of deaths to 1,502, the latest figures from Public Health Wales show.
The agency is continuing to test workers affected by the outbreak at Rowan Foods Limited in Wrexham, with 166 cases confirmed there so far and that number expected to rise.
Dr Giri Shankar, incident director Covid-19 outbreak response at Public Health Wales, said: “There is no evidence that Rowan Foods is the source of the outbreak.
“We are working with Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board to urgently contact just over 300 workers that have not yet presented for testing.”
Public Health Wales is in the process of combining test information to identify the total number of positive cases associated with the workforce at Rowan Foods.
The number of cases reported yesterday suggests there has been no change in the previous 24 hours.
Dr Shankar said the number is expected to go up once all the workers associated with the site have been tested and their results analysed.
He added: “As we would expect with any focused track and trace process, we will identify additional asymptomatic cases.
“Finding these cases does not mean that the rate of infection in the Wrexham area is increasing as a whole.
“[We] will continue to review the situation and work with the employer, their workforce and wider community to bring this outbreak to a swift conclusion.”
Following an outbreak control team meeting on Friday, a total of 210 coronavirus cases have been identified in the workforce associated with the 2 Sisters plant in Llangefni, Anglesey.
That figure represents a small increase of six positive cases reported in the previous 24-hour period.
The figure for confirmed Covid-19 cases in Wales stands at 15,557, with 46 of those reported yesterday.
In total 133,097 people have been tested in Wales, with 117,520 of those testing negative. So far 172,079 tests have been carried out, including 3,246 on Friday.
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