The Welsh government "won't hesitate" to place Wrexham under a local lockdown if needed, First Minister Mark Drakeford has said.
Three members of staff tested positive for coronavirus at a Wetherspoons pub in the town earlier this week, as hundreds of customer are set to be contacted by Public Health Wales under the Test, Trace, Protect strategy.
Speaking in a press conference today, the First Minister said that a local lockdown would be imposed on the town if the "incident were to lead to more widespread community transmission."
There are certain "triggers" in place, Mr Drakeford said, that would need to be matched before such a lockdown would be imposed.
Those triggers are:
- A significant and sustained rise in new cases and other disease indicators at a local or regional level
- A significant increase in the seven-day rolling average of confirmed cases per 100,000 population and sustained increase in the rate of change which is not under control.
- A high and rising percentage of positive tests and testing rate per 100,000 population, in particular evidence of wider community transmission.
- A rise in the numbers and locations of incidents (clusters with the potential for onward transmission) that cannot be linked to trends in known areas, locations or settings under control measures.
- A rise in the number and proportion of new cases which are not part of an identified cluster or outbreak.
An incident management team is currently dealing with the issue, the First Minister confirmed.
The team met earlier today and will outline the necessary steps in containing the incident in a soon-to-be-published report.
Mr Drakeford added that his preference would be to mobilise as quickly as possible on the Wetherspoons incident "so that the failures there do not have a wider impact on the Wrexham population."
