The Council’s Trading Standards department is undertaking significant work to protect residents from Coronavirus-related scams, including additional safeguarding exercises with those who are particularly vulnerable. Since the current Coronavirus national emergency started, scammers have been targeting residents through a number of methods – including phone, email and text message. RCT Trading Standards has advised that…
Recharge Rooms are being set up in our hospitals to help staff manage their mental wellbeing during the Coronavirus crisis. The rooms are providing quiet spaces for Cwm Taf Morgannwg employees to take a break from the pressures of working during the Covid outbreak, with the chance to take part in relaxing activities, such as…
THOSE currently fit and healthy but unable to work following business closures and Coronavirus restrictions can earn money in their own community with a Welsh care firm (April, 2020). Abacare says it can offer full training and paid work immediately to anyone willing to become a professional home carer as it desperately needs to…
Responding to the new initiative that the Welsh Government has unveiled for pupils, Shadow Minister for Education, Suzy Davies AM, said: “The pandemic is causing havoc in our daily lives and our educational sector is no exception. “Whilst I’m pleased in principle with the Welsh Government’s Stay Safe. Stay Learning programme, which aims to support learners,…
During these unprecedented times, the Council is continuing to support South Wales Fire and Rescue Service as part of Operation Dawns Glaw – a taskforce set up to reduce the number of deliberate fires across the region, and we are urging residents not to be tempted to burn garden or household waste. What may have…
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Rhondda Cynon Taf Council’s Sobell Leisure Centre has been transformed into the Council’s Food Distribution Centre during the COVID-19 Coronavirus national emergency. Since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, more than 2,700 people have contacted the Council requesting support and assistance with such things as shopping, collecting medication, loneliness and dog walking. “There are many…
First Minister Mark Drakeford and NHS Wales are appealing to the Welsh public to download a new COVID Symptom Tracker app to help the NHS response to COVID-19 in Wales. People across Wales are being asked to log their daily symptoms to help build a clearer picture of how the virus is affecting people. The…
As of 9am on 16 April,417,649 tests have concluded, with 18,665 tests carried out on 15 April. 327,608 people have been tested, of whom 103,093 tested positive. As of 5pm on 15 April, of those hospitalised in the UK who tested positive for coronavirus, 13,729 have died. Tests People tested Positive Deaths Daily 18,665…
Welsh Conservative Shadow Health Minister, Angela Burns AM, is calling for a change in how the testing system in Wales is managed in a bid to end the delay and deliver results after “… failure has been exacerbated by inefficiency”. Testing for Covid-19 (Coronavirus) in Wales has been beset by delays with the current target…
