Fresh calls for COVID passports to be dropped for good have been made by the Welsh Conservatives after a damning Freedom of Information request surfaced.
The Labour administration was challenged to reveal all data – including stats about the number of COVID cases developed from nightclubs - which led to restrictions being introduced after Christmas.
But the government admitted in response to the FOI that “this information is not available” and explained “there is no guarantee about where someone caught Covid-19, therefore there is no data on cases caught in specific locations.”
Welsh Conservatives believes the lack of evidence further supports the party’s calls for the anti-business and ineffective COVID passports to be scrapped.
And the lack of evidence raises serious questions over the justification for shutting nightclubs across Wales just after Christmas.
Welsh Conservative Shadow Minister for the Economy, Paul Davies MS, said:
“Businesses have been through financial torture as a result of these latest restrictions and to discover now that there was no evidence to support them is damning.
“Labour ministers decided to punish businesses, and leave jobs hanging in the balance, by shutting industries and imposing restrictions despite the evidence being scarce.
“Business owners across the country are up in arms as they’ve lost thousands of pounds for, by the looks of it, no good reason.
“Labour ministers must scrap their anti-business and ineffective COVID passports immediately and set a date for all of Wales’ remaining restrictions to be dropped.
“It is the least they could do after inflicting irreversible damage onto our business and ultimately our economy.”