No deaths as infection rate continues to drop
WALES reported no new coronavirus deaths in the latest figures released yesterday.
New data published by Public Health Wales (PHW) reported a further 50 new positive coronavirus cases, bringing the total to 210,447 since the pandemic began.
The total number of lab-confirmed coronavirus deaths in Wales remains at 5,531.
The infection rate across Wales has fallen again and now stands at 17.5 cases per 100,000 people for the seven days leading up to April 7, a drop from 17.6 on Sunday.
All of Wales’s local authorities are now reporting fewer than 35 cases per 100,000 people for the seven days up to April 7.
Six of them reported zero new positive cases yesterday.
Meanwhile the percentage of tests coming back with positive results is now 2%, significantly below the key benchmark of 5%.
The latest figures also show that 1,587,851 people have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine and 528,199 people have had both doses.
Uptake of the first vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
Care home residents: 15,095 (97.4%)
Care home workers: 34,005 (89.3%)
80 years and older: 166,471 (95.2%)
Healthcare workers: 132,649 (93.2%)
Social care workers: 44,709 (no percentage available)
75-79 years: 127,624 (95.8%) 70-74: 174,897 (95.2%) Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 75,250 (92.4%)
65-69 years: 168,301 (93.3%)
Clinical risk groups 16-64 years: 292,209 (82.9%)
60-64 years: 186,181 (90.5%)
55-59 years: 204,545 (87.5%)
50-54 years: 183,951 (80.7%)
40-49 years: 171,127 (43.7%)
30-39 years: 102,444 (24.4%)
18-29 years: 79,117 (17.1%)
Cardiff reported the most cases on Monday with nine followed by Flintshire with six and Gwynedd with five.
RCT and Carmarthenshire had four each while Swansea had three.
Caerphilly, Newport, Anglesey, Conwy, Bridgend, Powys and Neath Port Talbot all had two, while Wrexham, Vale of Glamorgan and Powys had one.
Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire, Torfaen, Denbighshire, Merthyr Tydfil and Ceredigion all had no new cases.
Cases per 100,000 based on seven-day rolling average (April 1 to April 7):
Cardiff: 31.6 (down from 32.4)
Swansea: 31.6 (down from 32)
Anglesey: 31.4 (up from 22.8)
Gwynedd: 21.7 (down from 26.5)
Neath Port Talbot: 18.8 (down from 20.2)
Rhondda Cynon Taf: 18.7 (up from 17.4)
Wrexham: 17.7 (down from 20.6)
Blaenau Gwent: 15.7 (up from 12.9)
Vale of Glamorgan: 15 (unchanged)
Torfaen: 14.9 (down from 16)
Newport: 14.2 (unchanged)
Conwy: 12.8 (up from 11.1)
Caerphilly: 12.1 (up from 11)
Merthyr Tydfil: 11.6 (down from 19.9)
Flintshire: 11.5 (down from 13.5)
Bridgend: 10.9 (up from 7.5)
Pembrokeshire: 10.3 (down from 13.5)
Denbighshire: 9.4 (down from 10.4) Powys: 9.1 (up from 6.8) Carmarthenshire: 8.5 (down from 9)
Ceredigion: 5.5 (up from 2)
Monmouthshire: 2.1 (unchanged)
All-wales average: 17.5 (down from 17.6)