Illegal Party Slammed By Health Chiefs
Revellers misled contact trace staff: Six test positive for Covid-19
People at an illegal house party in South Wales have been criticised for misleading contact tracers and putting the wider community at risk.
At least six people who attended the party in Derwen Fawr, Swansea, earlier this month have tested positive for Covid and a further 13 contacts are undergoing tests.
Efforts to track down everyone connected to the party were thwarted by some ... who claimed they weren't in Swansea at the time and that the party took place elsewhere.
The occupiers of the house also denied at first that the party had happened.
Evidence gathered by Swansea Council environmental health workers resulting in admissions that a party had taken place on April 10.
The close timing of four positive Covid-19 cases – two men and two women – had raised suspicions of an indoor gathering. But efforts by Swansea Test Trace Protect contact tracers to find out more were frustrated by the misleading information they were given.