Seven more dead with Covid
SEVEN more people have died with coronavirus in Wales according to the latest data from Public Health Wales.
New figures published yesterday, which covers the 24-hour period up to 9am on Tuesday, show the Covid-related death toll in Wales is now 6,361.
There were also 1,931 new positive cases recorded in the latest update bringing the total number since the pandemic began to 495,724.
The latest seven-day infection rate across Wales, based on the cases for every 100,000 people (for the seven days up to November 19) now stands at 502 – a drop from the 511.1 reported on Tuesday.
The local authority with the highest infection rate in Wales is Gwynedd with 855 cases per 100,000 population over seven days followed by Vale of Glamorgan with 652.8 and Monmouthshire with 584.6.
The test positivity rate across Wales is at 18.1%, a fall from the 18.3% reported on Tuesday.
The areas of the country recording the highest numbers of new Covid cases are Cardiff with 252, Flintshire with 147, Gwynedd with 142, Rhondda Cynon Taf with 133, Swansea with 123, Vale of Glamorgan with 121, Carmarthenshire with 120 an Wrexham with 119.
Meanwhile Caerphilly had 115 new cases, Newport had 97, Conwy had 87, Pembrokeshire and Neath Port Talbot both had 82, Powys and Denbighshire both had 80 and Bridgend had 75.
The local authorities recording the fewest cases were Anglesey with 52, Monmouthshire with 50, Torfaen with 42, Merthyr Tydfil with 36, Blaenau Gwent with 34, and Ceredigion with 14.
As of Tuesday there were 614 people in general and acute hospital beds with coronavirus (confirmed, suspected, and recovering), a fall on the 644 reported the previous day. There were 54 people in a ventilated intensive care bed with Covid-19 on Tuesday, a fall on the 58 reported the day before.
The latest data showed that 2,465,183 people had received one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 2,259,175 had been given both doses.
To date 751,460 people have received their Covid booster vaccine, including more than threequarters of care home residents (78.9%) and over 80s (78.2%).