Written question WQ94468
- Asked by
- Janet Finch-SaundersConservative
- To be answered by
- Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- Due
- Answered
- Time to answer
- 6 days
Question
How many cases of the COVID XEC variant is the Cabinet Secretary aware of in Wales?
Answer
Answered by Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care
Since the 7th August, there have been 50 cases of the XEC variant within Wales, accounting for just under 17% of the cases during September into October.
Public Health Wales (PHW) publish a monthly public dashboard of the variants in circulation, COVID-19 genomic surveillance | Tableau Public. Information on XEC and other COVID-19 variants can be found at this link.