City has most new virus cases again
ONE more person has died with coronavirus in Wales and the infection rate across the country has risen slightly.
Latest data published by Public Health Wales yesterday reported 125 new positive cases in the last 24-hour period which brings the total since the outbreak began to 209,191.
The overall number of people to have died in the country within a month of testing positive for the virus now stands at 5,506.
The infection rate across Wales is now 38.1 per 100,000 people, based on the seven days up to March 24 – up slightly from 37.8 on Sunday.
Meanwhile, the percentage of tests coming back with positive results is now 2.8%, way below the key benchmark of 5%.
The latest figures also show that 1,400,750 people have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine and 416,862 have had both doses.
Uptake of the first vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
■ Care home residents: 12,263 (96.2%)
■ Care home workers: 33,472 (88.3%)
■ Healthcare workers: 130,303 (91.4%)
■ Social care workers: 43,410 (no percentage available)
■ 80 years and older: 166,455 (94.9%)
■ 75-79 years: 127,330 (95.5%)
■ 70-74 years: 174,431 (94.9%)
■ Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 74,636 (91.5%)
■ 65-69 years: 167,378 (92.8%)
■ Clinical risk groups 16-64 years: 273,466 (78.1%)
■ 60-64 years: 181,459 (88.3%)
■ 55-59 years: 174,638 (74.8%)
■ 50-54 years: 108,788 (47.8%)
Swansea was the county with the highest number of new cases confirmed on Sunday with 33, followed by Neath Port Talbot with 16, Cardiff with 13 and Gwynedd with 11.
All other counties had fewer than 10 new cases, including Rhondda Cynon Taf and Carmarthenshire with seven, Caerphilly and Flintshire with five, Blaenau Gwent and Newport with four, and Vale of Glamorgan and Bridgend with three.
Five local authorities reported two cases including Torfaen, Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire and Wrexham, while Powys and Merthyr Tydfil reported one case each.
Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Monmouthshire all reported no cases on Monday.
Cases per 100,000 based on seven-day rolling average (March 18 to March 24):
■ Merthyr Tydfil: 127.6 (down from 134.3)
■ Anglesey: 118.5 (up from 114.2)
■ Swansea: 65.2 (up from 62.3)
■ Flintshire: 52.5 (down from 57.7)
■ Neath Port Talbot: 51.6 (up from 50.2)
■ Blaenau Gwent: 48.7 (down from 54.4)
■ Newport: 47.2 (down from 49.1)
■ Conwy: 42.7 (up from 41.8)
■ Caerphilly: 37.6 (up from 37.0)
■ Gwynedd: 36.9 (up from 33.7)
■ Cardiff: 33.5 (up from 32.2)
■ Vale of Glamorgan: 26.2 (down from 28.4)
■ Denbighshire: 25.1 (up from 19.9)
■ Carmarthenshire: 24.9 (down from 25.4)
■ Pembrokeshire: 23.8 (up from 23.0)
■ Rhondda Cynon Taf: 22.4 (up from 20.7)
■ Torfaen: 21.3 (up from 20.2)
■ Monmouthshire: 21.1 (unchanged)
■ Powys: 21.1 (up from 20.4)
■ Wrexham: 19.9 (down from 23.5)
■ Bridgend: 17.7 (unchanged)
■ Ceredigion: 5.5 (up from 4.1)
■ All-wales average: 38.1 (up from 37.8 ).