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First Minister Mark Drakeford: ‘Welsh firebreak lockdown succeeded’
(ABOVE) First Minister Mark Drakeford speaking at a press conference in Cardiff ahead of Wales’ two-week lockdown that took place in October

A FIREBREAK lockdown lasting 17 days in Wales succeeded in reducing coronavirus transmission rates, First Minister Mark Drakeford said today.

The Welsh Labour leader said that the evidence was “now good enough to say that the firebreak period did succeed.”

The lockdown started on October 23 and ended on November 9.

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