Over 1,000 new cases as 30 more die in wales
A FURTHER 30 people have died with coronavirus in Wales and more than 1,200 new positive cases have been identified.
Public Health Wales (PHW), in its daily update yesterday, announced that 1,272 more people have been diagnosed with Covid-19 following a lab test.
This was a rise on the 1,202 positive cases reported on Wednesday.
PHW also confirmed that 30 more people had lost their lives with the virus to take the total to 1969.
The true death toll in Wales where Covid-19 is mentioned on the death certificate is 2,762, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Dr Robin Howe, incident director for the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak response at Public Health Wales, said: “Today Public Health Wales is reporting 30 new deaths from Covid-19.
“Due to a reporting time lag, some of the deaths included in today’s total are from previous days.
“The data dashboard is a rapid reporting tool which is subject to ongoing revision and reconciliation.”
Merthyr Tydfil remains by some way the local authority with the most cases per 100,000 over a seven-day average at 719.4, a drop on 741 on Wednesday.
The previous day’s figure had been the worst in the UK.
Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) had the second highest incidence rate with 556.7 cases per 100,000, up on 553.8, while Blaenau Gwent was third with 509.6, down on 543.9 the previous day.
Wales as a whole now averages 260.7 cases per 100,000 people, a drop on 266.4 on Wednesday.
The Number of tests carried out was 10.962 – up from 8,012 on Wednesday.
Rhondda Cynon Taf reported the most positive cases in the last 24 hours with 216, followed by Swansea with 153, Cardiff with 151, Bridgend with 82, Neath Port Talbot with 77, Caerphilly with 75 and Merthyr Tydfil with 69.
Other local authorities reporting high numbers of cases included Wrexham with 61, Blaenau Gwent with 53, Flintshire and Carmarthenshire with 37, Newport with 35 and Vale of Glamorgan with 27.
Meanwhile, Powys had 26, Torfaen and Monmouthshire had 19, Conwy and Gwynedd had 14, Pembrokeshire had 10, Denbighshire had eight, Anglesey had six and Ceredigion had five.