{"id":25410,"date":"2020-03-11T11:09:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=25410"},"modified":"2020-03-11T11:15:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T11:15:57","slug":"coronavirus-in-wales-latest-news-after-nine-new-cases-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/coronavirus-in-wales-latest-news-after-nine-new-cases-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus in Wales: Latest news after nine new cases confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Public Health Wales confirmed there are now 15 cases of Coronavirus in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">UPDATED STATEMENT:<br><br>The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CMOWales?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CMOWales<\/a> has announced nine further Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wales?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wales<\/a>, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Wales to 15.<br><br>Here&#39;s our updated statement: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0MNiBv54jt\">https:\/\/t.co\/0MNiBv54jt<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yMhxiZcs2W\">pic.twitter.com\/yMhxiZcs2W<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Public Health Wales (@PublicHealthW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PublicHealthW\/status\/1237479240548986881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 10, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of Coronavirus cases in Wales has more than doubled overnight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s 3 pm statement from Public Health Wales said the number of cases in Wales remained at six but overnight the Chief Medical Officer announced this figure had risen to 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five of the patients are from Neath &amp; Port Talbot, two are from Carmarthen and the other two from Cardiff and Swansea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new patent from Cardiff may be a worker at a Sky call centre in the city. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/cardiff-live-updates-coronavirus-flooding-and-latest-travel-news\/\">Y<\/a>esterday afternoon<a href=\"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/cardiff-live-updates-coronavirus-flooding-and-latest-travel-news\/\"> Sky released a statement<\/a> to CJS News saying<a href=\"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/cardiff-live-updates-coronavirus-flooding-and-latest-travel-news\/\">:<\/a><em>\u201cWe can confirm that a Sky colleague in our Cardiff contact centre has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and they are self-isolating at home.<\/em> <em>Protecting our people is \u2013 and always will be \u2013 our top priority and so we are closing the contact centre today and sending everyone home&nbsp;as a precaution. We\u2019re contacting anyone who has been in contact with our colleague and the centre itself will be deep cleaned before re-opening on Thursday.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"606\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/TyndallaMap-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-25399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/TyndallaMap-1.png 606w, https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/TyndallaMap-1-150x91.png 150w, https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/TyndallaMap-1-202x122.png 202w, https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/TyndallaMap-1-149x90.png 149w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 606px) 100vw, 606px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Welsh Ambulance service have said their is currently delays on the 111 service and to first check the online symptoms checker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our 111 service is extremely busy and there will be a wait for your call to be answered. Our new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Covid19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Covid19<\/a> symptom checker is your first port of call if you&#39;re worried. Please only pick up the phone if the symptom checker tells you to do so. Access it here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/M6aP5Bblwv\">https:\/\/t.co\/M6aP5Bblwv<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ll6QkvYAwY\">pic.twitter.com\/Ll6QkvYAwY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Welsh Ambulance (@WelshAmbulance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WelshAmbulance\/status\/1237681133753634816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As concerns over the spread of the virus grow, some businesses in Cardiff have started asking people in Cardiff to use contactless payments instead of handing over cash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/hallsofllandaff\/status\/1237451729861521413\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Public Health Wales will be giving an update at 3 pm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Health Wales confirmed there are now 15 cases of Coronavirus in the country. The number of Coronavirus cases in Wales has more than doubled overnight. Yesterday&#8217;s 3 pm statement from Public Health Wales said the number of cases in Wales remained at six but overnight the Chief Medical Officer announced this figure had risen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":225,"featured_media":25398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1860,744],"tags":[26,1898,1271,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25415,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25410\/revisions\/25415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}