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Boris Johnson will address the House of Commons this afternoon to reveal details on how England will leave the lockdown next month.
The prime minister will also hold a televised speech at 7pm to update people in England on the new coronavirus rules after December 2.
The current restrictions for pubs, shops and gyms across the border are expected to be eased, with the NHS also being warned to begin preparations to launch a coronavirus vaccine starting next week.
On Monday, the Welsh health minister said there has been a “worrying” increase in coronavirus cases among people under 25 in Wales over the past week.
Speaking during a Welsh government press conference, Vaughan Gething said there had been an increase in the number of young people contracting the coronavirus in most of Wales over the past seven days.
Addressing the Welsh government briefing on Monday, he said that the incidence of Covid-19 among young people had decreased during and after the fire closed, but was now on its way back.
He cautioned that while the rate among people over 60 was currently on a downward trajectory, “we know from the pattern of the pandemic so far in Wales that infections in younger people are rapidly making their way through. from the community and towards the elderly “who are most at risk.
He also warned that there have been “worrisome increases” in coronavirus rates in some parts of Wales, with cases in Blaenau Gwent increasing “dramatically” last week, while cases have increased in Caerphilly, Newport and Torfaen.
It comes after massive tests were implemented in Wales for the first time over the weekend. Rapid tests for Covid-19 are being offered to residents and workers in Merthyr Tydfil even if they have no symptoms, a week after the city recorded the highest rate of new cases in the UK.
Gething said that more than 2,000 people participated in the massive tests over the weekend and that about 1% of the cases tested positive.
According to the latest data from Public Health Wales (PHW), the Merthyr area has a seven-day continuous infection rate of 261.9 cases per 100,000 people.
Dr. Chris Williams, Incident Director for the Covid-19 Outbreak Response at PHW, said Sunday: “This massive testing exercise will help understand how the virus has spread in Merthyr and break the chains of transmission in the area. Merthyr has one of the highest coronavirus rates in Wales and this will help control the virus.
“Public Health Wales encourages as many people as possible to get tested.”
Eleven more people were reported to have died in Wales on Sunday after testing positive for coronavirus.
There were also 808 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the country.
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