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Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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20 February 2024

Please click here for the latest guidance for people with symptoms of a respiratory infection, including COVID-19.

30 May 2022

Face Masks:  Welsh Government guidance recommends the continued wearing of face coverings in health care settings to protect the most vulnerable. Thank you for your co-opertion & consideration

 

30 Mai 2022

Mwged Wyneb:  Mae canllawiau Llywodraeth Cymru yn argymell parhau i wisgo mwyged wyneb mewn lleoliadau gofal iechyd er mwyn amddiffyn y rhai mwyaf agored i niwed. Diolch am eich cydweithrediad a'ch ystyriaeth.

If you suspect you have Covid-19, please, do not come to the surgery.
Go to: https://phw.nhs.wales/topics/latest-information-on-novel-coronavirus-covid-19/ for more information

Symptoms​

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  • A high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)

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  • A new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)

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Please click here for the latest up to date information on symptoms from Public Health Wales. 

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Please click here to complete the NHS symptom checker.

Groups at High Risk

 

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  • Aged 70 or older (regardless of medical conditions)

  • Under 70 with an underlying health condition listed below (ie anyone instructed to get a flu jab as an adult each year on medical grounds):

  • Chronic (long-term) respiratory diseases, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), emphysema or bronchitis

  • Chronic heart disease, such as heart failure

  • Chronic kidney disease

  • Chronic liver disease, such as hepatitis

  • Chronic neurological conditions, such as Parkinson’s disease, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis (MS), a learning disability or cerebral palsy

  • Diabetes

  • Problems with your spleen – for example, sickle cell disease or if you have had your spleen removed

  • A weakened immune system as the result of conditions such as HIV and AIDS, or medicines such as steroid tablets or chemotherapy

  • People who have received an organ transplant and remain on ongoing immunosuppression medication

  • People with cancer who are undergoing active chemotherapy or radiotherapy

  • People with cancers of the blood or bone marrow such as leukaemia who are at any stage of treatment

  • People with severe chest conditions such as cystic fibrosis or severe asthma (requiring hospital admissions or courses of steroid tablets)

  • People with severe diseases of body systems, such as severe kidney disease (dialysis)

  • Being seriously overweight (a BMI of 40 or above)

  • Those who are pregnant

Guidance on Social Distancing

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  1. Avoid contact with someone who is displaying symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19). These symptoms include high temperature and/or new and continuous cough;

  2. Avoid non-essential use of public transport, varying your travel times to avoid rush hour, when possible

  3. Work from home, where possible. Your employer should support you to do this. Please refer to employer guidance for more information;

  4. Avoid large gatherings, and gatherings in smaller public spaces such as pubs, cinemas, restaurants, theatres, bars, clubs

  5. Avoid gatherings with friends and family. Keep in touch using remote technology such as phone, internet, and social media.

  6. Use telephone or online services to contact your GP or other essential services.

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Guidance on Staying at Home

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  • If you live alone and you have symptoms of coronavirus illness (COVID-19), however mild, stay at home for 7 days from when your symptoms started. (See ending isolation section below for more information)

  • If you live with others and you or one of them have symptoms of coronavirus, then all household members must stay at home and not leave the house for 14 days. The 14-day period starts from the day when the first person in the house became ill

  • It is likely that people living within a household will infect each other or be infected already. Staying at home for 14 days will greatly reduce the overall amount of infection the household could pass on to others in the community

  • For anyone in the household who starts displaying symptoms, they need to stay at home for 7 days from when the symptoms appeared, regardless of what day they are on in the original 14 day isolation period. (See ending isolation section below for more information

  • If you can, move any vulnerable individuals (such as the elderly and those with underlying health conditions) out of your home, to stay with friends or family for the duration of the home isolation period

  • If you cannot move vulnerable people out of your home, stay away from them as much as possible

  • If you have coronavirus symptoms:

    • Do not go to a GP surgery, pharmacy or hospital

    • You do not need to contact 111 to tell them you’re staying at home

    • Testing for coronavirus is not needed if you’re staying at home

  • Plan ahead and ask others for help to ensure that you can successfully stay at home and consider what can be done for vulnerable people in the household

  • Ask your employer, friends and family to help you to get the things you need to stay at home

  • Wash your hands (and wrists) regularly for 20 seconds, each time using soap and water, or use hand sanitiser

  • If you feel you cannot cope with your symptoms at home, or your condition gets worse, or your symptoms do not get better after 7 days, then use the NHS Direct 111 online coronavirus service. If you do not have internet access, call NHS Direct 111. For a medical emergency dial 999

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Guidance on shielding and protecting people defined on medical grounds as extremely vulnerable

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