Covid Indian variant: Public should be worried, says Wales chief medic

 People "should be worried" about a resurgence in Covid, with an increase in cases of the Indian variant of concern, the Welsh government's chief medical officer says.

Dr Frank Atherton said the expansion to "around 57" cases was "something we need to observe cautiously". The complete last Thursday was 28 instances of B617.2, the variation of concern. Wellbeing priest Eluned Morgan rehashed government counsel that individuals take occasions at home to decrease the danger. Dr Atherton said most instances of the variation of concern were in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, in spite of the fact that they had been recognized in all wellbeing board regions separated from Powys. He said measures, for example, social removing and utilizing face covers were "the things that protect us" and there was hazard that the circumstance could "go into switch" if those actions were relaxed."We should progress forward the careful methodology here in Wales," he told writers at a Welsh government update on the pandemic. "People in general ought to be stressed over the resurgence in Covid overall truly. "We have few cases - 57 right now of the alleged Indian variation - however that will be a belittle and I anticipate that the numbers should rise." Dr Atherton said the cases in Wales were "discernible back to a state of section, so we're overseeing them as bunches". He added: "On the off chance that we look across the boundary in to England and absolutely in to Scotland, Glasgow territory, what is by all accounts occurring there is more extensive inescapable local area transmission and that is a considerably more troublesome thing, obviously, to contain."Unlike in Scotland, individuals in Wales are not being confined from going to places in England with a high number of instances of the Indian variation, Ms Morgan said. Notwithstanding, she focused on the Welsh government "will be continually holding the circumstance under survey". In her first question and answer session as wellbeing priest, Ms Morgan rehashed the guidance that individuals should take their days off in Wales this year and just travel to another country for fundamental travel. "Our entire economy could arrive at a crushing stop again if we somehow managed to allow new variations to grab hold," she said. Ms Morgan added the Welsh government had "an obligation to remain by our own travel industry area and cordiality area". "We live in a fabulously excellent country and I would urge individuals to utilize the chance to occasion here in Wales and to help those areas of the economy that have truly endured during pandemic," she said.