Record number of new cases across Wales

TEN more people have died with coronavirus in Wales and more than 1,000 new positive cases have been recorded in one day for the first time.

Yesterday’s figures from Public Health Wales (PHW) show 1,148 positive cases have been identified in labs in the latest 24 hours.

That is the most ever recorded in a single day in Wales, and almost double the amount on Monday (620).

PHW also confirmed 10 more people have died with the virus to bring the death toll since the pandemic began to 1,722.

Cardiff remains the local authority with the highest number of cases per 100,000 people with 283.7, a rise on the 266.6 recorded on Monday.

Merthyr Tydfil had the second most with 217.2, up from 203.9, while Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) was third with 201, up from 163.7, and Wrexham fourth (200.8).

The other local authority areas recording more than 100 cases included Bridgend with 192.5, Neath Port Talbot with 173.7, Blaenau Gwent with 168.9, Swansea with 154.7, Denbighshire with 148.4, Flintshire with 147.3, Conwy with 119.5, and Caerphilly with 117.6.

The all-Wales infection rate is 140.9 per 100,000, which is up from 128.2 recorded the day before.

Cardiff, with 225, saw by far the most new cases reported yesterday, followed by RCT with 150, Swansea with 90, Neath Port Talbot with 69, Wrexham with 66, Caerphilly with 61, Flintshire with 49, Bridgend with 39, and Carmarthenshire with 36.

There were also double-digit increases in Conwy (28), Torfaen (24), Merthyr Tyfil and Gwynedd (23), Denbighshire (22), Blaenau Gwent (20), Powys (19), Anglesey (17), Monmouthshire, Newport and Pembrokeshire (both 14), and Vale of Glamorgan (12).