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A husband with chronic asthma and his registered disabled wife say they were “sent home to die” after they were forced to leave their caravan home in Wales.
Susan and Ken Dinn had been guarding at a holiday park in Caernarfon, North Wales, since July and were eager to stay away from their Knowsley home, particularly as the district recently had the highest rates of Covid-19 in all. England. .
But with the implementation of a two-week ‘firewall’ lockdown in Wales, designed to contain the latest spike in coronavirus cases, the holiday park must close for at least fifteen days, meaning the Halewood couple has not had no choice but to move out. outside.
The Dinns are now back in Merseyside, but said they feel the Welsh government rules have put them in greater danger.
Susan, 67, told ECHO: “It was safer for us to be in Wales, we weren’t a threat to anyone there, we’ve been there so long.
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“The Covid rates at Knowsley are very high, so we stayed out of the way and didn’t want to go back.
“We feel that the government has sent us home to die, it is a possibility, my husband is in the high risk group.”
The Wales Firewall started at 6pm on Friday and will include the mid-term holiday and will last until Monday, November 9.
Prime Minister Mark Drakeford said a “short, sharp jolt was needed to turn back the clock, slow down the virus and give us more time.”
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Ms. Dinn has joint problems and arthritis, while her husband, a former production manager in the food industry, suffers from severe asthma, which means he is susceptible to contracting the virus.
Susan, a retired nurse for more than 30 years, and her three children were urging Ken not to return to Knowsley for the summer as coronavirus rates soared in the district.
She added: ‘We arrived in Wales on July 13 and we thought we would stay in our static caravan until everything calmed down.
“It’s not fair, they are penalizing us for just wanting to protect ourselves.
“It’s not the fault of the holiday park, the owner was just doing what he was told to do.
“There are a lot of people in Merseyside who have caravans in places like Wales.”
A family friend added: “The risk to their health and well-being is now being compromised through no fault of their own.
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“Is it moral to send these vulnerable retirees to a Covid Tier 3?”
A spokesman for the Welsh government said: “Unless they are using the accommodation as their primary residence because they have no alternative, or because the Welsh government or local authority has asked the company to continue to provide services, anyone who stays on vacation The park will be required to leave the firewall for two weeks in accordance with the requirements for the closure of tourism businesses. “
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