COVID-19 CASES LINK TO FESTIVAL
MORE than 70 cases of coronavirus have been identified as potentially linked to Green Man Festival which took place a fortnight ago. Wales’ largest music festival, based in the Brecon Beacons, saw the likes of Little Dragon, Charlotte Church and Gruff Rhys perform between August 19 and 22.
Organisers said ticket holders either needed to take a Covid passport with them as proof that they were doublejabbed or show a negative lateral flow test result before entering the site.
However Public Health Wales, which carries out active public health surveillance around large events, confirmed that dozens of positive cases have since been linked with the popular three-day festival.
A spokeswoman for the NHS trust said: “Analysis of contact tracing data gathered by Test, Trace, Protect has identified 71 Welsh residents with confirmed coronavirus where Green Man Festival was reported as a possible exposure in the seven days before showing symptoms.
“However it is important to note that these cases are not necessarily attributable to transmission at the festival as Green Man would have been one of a number of exposures reported by cases prior to onset including, for example, socialising outside the festival, travel to and from the festival etc.”
The 71 cases identified at Green Man pale in comparison to the likes of Boardmasters in Newquay, Cornwall, where 4,700 Covid cases were linked to the event between August 11 and 15.
■ Public Health Wales announced on Friday, September 3, that six more people in Wales have died with coronavirus to bring the overall total to 5,688.
The most recent data also identified 2,391 new positive cases of Covid in Wales to increase the total since the start of the pandemic to 286,256.