Responding to the news that additional restrictions are being imposed on Llanelli on Saturday, and the local authority areas of Cardiff and Swansea on Sunday, Plaid Cymru Shadow Health Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth MS said,
“While a prudent local response is supported, Welsh Government should seriously consider the earlier closing of pubs and bars as a temporary measure in other areas, so as to help avoid further county-wide restrictions.
“The domino effect of local authority areas being closed doesn’t have to be inevitable, but will become so if more far-reaching preventative measures are not brought in.
“The hyperlocal response to restrictions in Carmarthenshire make sense when transmission is concentrated in just the Llanelli area, but this should be applied consistently. Could the Llantrisant area, with its relatively low case numbers, have been left out of the tight RCT-wide restrictions, for example?”
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