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Ruth Mosalski

Welsh Government says 69,000 more people would have caught Covid if it hadn't brought in restrictions

Wales' Covid restrictions stopped almost 70,000 people getting the disease, according to the Welsh Government.

Wales' health minister Eluned Morgan told Senedd members that estimated figures showed that around 170,000 people in Wales had Covid in early January – enough to fill the Principality Stadium two-and-a-half times over.

"Had we not brought in restrictions we'd have had an extra 69,000 people with Covid. So that's enough to almost fill the Millennium Stadium [sic] again," she said.

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