Nine more death and 1,963 new cases

A FURTHER nine people have died with coronavirus in Wales according to the latest figures from Public Health Wales.

New data published yesterday, which covers the 24-hour period up to 9am on Friday, shows the total number of Covid-related deaths in Wales now stands at 6,391.

There were also 1,963 new positive cases recorded in the latest update bringing the total number since the pandemic began to 502,991.

The seven-day infection rate across Wales, based on the cases for every 100,000 people (for the seven days up to November 22) now stands at 491.4 – a drop from the 494.4 reported on Friday.

The local authority with the highest infection rate in Wales remains Gwynedd with 882.3 cases per 100,000 population over seven days followed by Vale of Glamorgan with 652.8 and Anglesey with 579.6.

The test positivity rate across Wales is at 17.6%, a fall from 17.8% reported on Friday.

The areas of the country recording the highest numbers of new Covid cases in the latest 24-hour period are Cardiff with 213, Gwynedd with 135, Flintshire with 132, RCT with 128, Swansea with 119 and Vale of Glamorgan with 116.

Meanwhile Wrexham had 109, Caerphilly had 103, Newport had 91, Powys and Carmarthenshire had 84 each and Pembrokeshire had 81.

The local authorities with the lowest number of cases were Anglesey with 68, Conwy with 62, Torfaen and Denbighshire with 61 each, Bridgend with 59, Monmouthshire with 52, Neath Port Talbot with 50, Blaenau Gwent with 39, Merthyr Tyfil with 24 and Ceredigion 14.

As of Thursday there were 589 people in general and acute hospital beds with coronavirus (confirmed, suspected, and recovering), a rise on the 587 reported on Wednesday.

There were 52 people in a ventilated intensive care bed with Covid-19 on Tuesday, a fall on the 54 reported the day before.

The latest data showed that 2,465,943 people had received one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 2,260,662 had been given both doses.

To date 781,025 people have received their Covid booster vaccine according to PHW, including more than threequarters of care home residents (80.2%) and over 80s (78.8%), over two-thirds of healthcare workers (71.9%) and over half of all care home workers (62.2%).