Number of new cases still falling
THERE were three new coronavirus deaths reported in Wales yesterday, though there were only 53 new cases.
Seven parts of Wales had no new Covid cases at all yesterday.
New data published by Public Health Wales reports a further 53 new coronavirus cases in Wales, meaning Wales has now seen a total of 210,397 cases since the pandemic began.
The total number of lab-confirmed coronavirus deaths in Wales is now at 5,531.
The infection rate across Wales has fallen again and now stands at 17.6 cases per 100,000 people for the seven days leading up to April 6, a drop from 18.7 on Saturday.
All of Wales’s local authorities are now reporting fewer than 35 cases per 100,000 people for the seven days up to April 6. Meanwhile, the percentage of tests coming back with positive results is now 2%, a fall from 2.2% the day before and way below the key benchmark of 5%.
The latest figures also show that 1,572,752 people have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine and 525,177 have had both doses.
Uptake of the first vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
Care home residents: 15,105 (97.4%)
Care home workers: 33,955 (89.3%)
Healthcare workers: 132,562 (93.1%)
Social care workers: 44,686 (no percentage available)
80 years and older: 166,497 (95.2%)
75-79 years: 127,626 (95.8%)
70-74 years: 174,889 (95.2%)
Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 75,237 (92.4%)
65-69 years: 168,240 (93.3%)
Clinical risk groups 16-64 years: 291,890 (82.8%)
60-64 years: 186,079 (90.5%)
55-59 years: 203,998 (87.3%)
50-54 years: 179,020 (78.6%)
40-49 years: 163,619 (31.8%)
30-39 years: 101,2490 (24.1%)
18-29 years: 78,529 (17%)
Cardiff reported the most cases with 12, followed by Swansea and Newport with five each.
RCT had four with Flintshire, Gwynedd, Wrexham, Carmathenshire and Powys all seeing three.
Blaenau Gwent and Caerphilly had two each, and Conwy, the Vale of Glamorgan and Bridgend had just one.
Torfaen, Anglesey, Denbighshire, Merthyr, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and Neath Port Talbot had no new cases.
Cases per 100,000 based on seven-day rolling average (March 31 to April 6):
Cardiff: 32.4 (down from 35.7)
Swansea: 32 (unchanged)
Gwynedd: 26.5 (up from 21.7)
Anglesey: 22.8 (down from 25.7)
Wrexham: 20.6 (down from 22.1)
Neath Port Talbot: 20.2 (down from 20.9)
Merthyr Tydfil: 19.9 (down from 21.5)
Rhondda Cynon Taf: 17.4 (up from 17) Torfaen: 16 (unchanged) Vale of Glamorgan: 15 (up from 14.2)
Newport: 14.2 (up from 12.9)
Flintshire: 13.5 (down from 16.7)
Pembrokeshire: 13.5 (down from 15.9)
Blaenau Gwent: 12.9 (down from 15.7)
Conwy: 11.1 (up from 10.2)
Caerphilly: 11 (up from 10.5)
Denbighshire: 10.4 (down from 16.7)
Carmarthenshire: 9 (down from 13.2)
Bridgend: 7.5 (up from 4.1)
Powys: 6.8 (down from 7.6)
Monmouthshire: 2.1 (down from 8.5)
Ceredigion: 2 (down from 6.9)
All-wales average: 17.6 (down from 18.7)