So why won't the Welsh Government publish the hyper local data for coronavirus?
It looks like we have an answer.
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This issue has been rumbling on for over a month.
The Welsh Conservatives in particular have been obsessed with raising this as they are advocating for hyper local lockdowns where, for instance, just a council ward will be locked down.
Every week the UK Government release maps like this for England. It shows, at a very local level, how many Covid-19 cases there are.
From 6pm on Friday, October 16, people from areas of England, Scotland and Northern Ireland with high prevalence rates of the virus will not be allowed to travel to Wales.
According to the First Minister, the rules will apply to anyone in an area of England in the top two tiers of alert in the English system - those deemed to have "high" and "very high" risk levels.
Areas of 🏴 are currently ordered into “medium”, “high” and “very high”.
There is a lot of confusion over who is to blame for the situation in the Rhondda so thought I would try and cut through the misinformation and general Twitter fury.
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So testing in Wales is split between the Welsh & UK Government.
Most of the drive in centres you see are run by the UK Gov (through Deloitte/Serco etc).
At present about 75% of Wales' testing is done by the UK Gov (though since the start of the crisis Wales has done more).
Why so confusing? Good question.
It stems back to March when the UK Gov opened a testing centre in the Cardiff City Stadium without properly discussing with WG or PHW.
So for better or worse, we have a duel system (1 of which tests by putting up the nose and 1 who doesn't).
I sometimes think it's a miracle our Welsh NHS functions at all.
Yesterday @WalesOnline published a story on how many people were discharged from hospital to care homes without a test between Mar 1 and May 31 - broken down by health board.
But that isn't the real story
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All 7 health boards were sent an FoI asking 5 questions:
- How many patients were discharged into care homes
- How many sent to a new home or their previous one
- How many tested prior to discharge
- How many since ID'd as having Covid
- How many died subsequently
What is bizarre about the responses is some (Aneurin Bevan) could answer all 5 questions quickly and easily.
Whereas some could only answer a few.
C&V could only answer the first question. For others they either didn't hold the data or it would cost too much cash to calculate.