30.20C! HOTTEST DAY OF THE YEAR
A HOSPITAL has issued an urgent warning to parents about sunburn as the hot and sunny weather continues.
Three children have been admitted to the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery at Morriston Hospital in Swansea with extensive sunburn within two days – prompting doctors to urge parents to ensure their children are fully protected from the sun.
A spokesman said: “As you can imagine, it’s quite painful and could have been avoided if they had applied protection.”
Offering advice on how best to guard against sunburn, Dr Zoe Lee said: “Our advice to parents is to encourage their children to play in the shade as much as possible, wear hats and long sleeves, and apply regular applications of sun cream to the skin. It’s also important to apply sun cream regularly and to keep hydrated.”
Nurse Hannah Brew, of Swansea Bay UHB’s Dermatology Department, warned that blistering sunburn in childhood could more than double a person’s chance of developing skin cancer later in life.
She said: “Melanoma is the deadliest skin cancer and is now one of the most common cancers in young adults aged 15-34 in the UK. One blistering sunburn in childhood or adolescence more than doubles a person’s chances of developing melanoma later in life.
“More than 80% of all skin cancers are caused by overexposure to the sun and/ or sunbeds. If you are in any doubt whether you may have skin cancer, then check it out with your GP.”
“The way the Prime Minister conducts himself creates chaos, makes for bad government and has deadly consequences for the British public.
“They robbed the bank, got caught and have now offered to give the money back.”
Following confirmation late on Saturday that Mr Javid had tested positive, Downing Street announced early yesterday morning that Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak would be joining the pilot testing scheme rather than isolating.
But within three hours they had dramatically changed tack and said the two ministers would be following normal rules on self-isolating.
Mr Sunak said that while the pilot was “fairly restrictive”, allowing only essential government business, he recognised that “even the sense that the rules aren’t the same for everyone is wrong”.
To compound the embarrassment, Transport for London, one of the organisations which No 10 said was also taking part in the pilot, said that it had yet to receive formal notification that it was part of the trial.
A spokesman said: “The current Test and Trace rules on self-isolation have led to vital control room staff being unable to come to work, causing disruption on some Tube lines.”
Mr Johnson meanwhile defended the decision to go ahead with the England’s unlocking as he appealed to people to be cautious when it came to exercising their new freedoms.
“We have got to remember that this virus is, sadly, still out there. We can see the stream of contagiousness of the Delta variant,” he said.
“But there is no doubt at all that the massive vaccination programme has very severely weakened the link between infection and hospitalisation, and between infection and serious illness and death.”
First Minister Mark Drakeford confirmed last Wednesday that almost all coronavirus restrictions in Wales will be lifted on August 7, but said the wearing of face masks would remain compulsory on public transport and in most indoor settings.
From Saturday some rules were eased as Wales moved into alert Level 1 – after a four-week delay due to the spread of the Delta variant. Up to six people can now meet indoors in Wales in private homes and holiday accommodation and organised indoor events can take place with up to 1,000 people seated and up to 200 standing.