No deaths as 64 cases recorded
WALES has recorded no new coronavirus deaths - but more than 60 new positive cases in the latest daily update.
New data published by Public Health Wales (PHW) yesterday recorded 64 more positive cases to bring the total number since the pandemic began to 211,042.
The country’s overall number of lab-confirmed coronavirus deaths remains at 5,542.
The infection rate across Wales now stands at 15.2 cases per 100,000 people for the seven days up to April 16 - a drop from 15.4 on Tuesday.
However, there are now concerns around an Indian variant of coronavirus which has been found in eight people in Wales to date. It is understood that all eight cases were people who had either returned from India or were their “close household contacts”.
Meanwhile, the percentage of tests coming back with positive results remains at 1.7% - significantly below the key benchmark of 5%.
The latest figures also show that 1,712,372 people have received the first dose of a Covid19 vaccine and 622,513 people have had both doses.
Uptake of the first vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
■ Care home residents: 15,065 (97.5%)
■ Care home workers: 34,370 (90.2%)
■ 80 years and older: 166,468 (95.4%)
■ Healthcare workers: 133,851 (93.9%)
■ Social care workers: 45,100 (no percentage available)
■ 75-79 years: 127,882 (96.1%)
■ 70-74 years: 175,157 (95.4%)
■ Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 75,519 (92.8%)
■ 65-69 years: 168,739 (93.6%)
■ Clinical risk groups 16-64 years: 297,863 (84.4%)
■ 60-64 years: 187,433 (91.1%)
■ 55-59 years: 206,947 (88.5%)
■ 50-54 years: 195,805 (85.9%)
■ 40-49 years: 247,137 (63.1%)
■ 30-39 years: 123,728 (29.4%)
■ 18-29 years: 88,065 (19%)
Cardiff was the local authority reporting the most cases on Wednesday with 10 followed by Newport and Bridgend with seven, Swansea with six, and Neath Port Talbot with five.
Caerphilly had four new cases, Monmouthshire, Gwynedd and Wrexham had three, Blaenau Gwent, Torfaen, Anglesey, Flintshire, Carmarthenshire and Powys had two, and Vale of Glamorgan and Ceredigion had one.
Conwy, Denbighshire, Merthyr Tydfil, RCT, and Pembrokeshire all had no new cases.
Cases per 100,000 based on seven-day rolling average (April 10 to April 16):
■ Blaenau Gwent: 1.4 (unchanged)
■ Newport: 25.9 (down from 27.8)
■ Caerphilly: 7.2 (down from 7.7)
■ Torfaen: 16 (up from 10.6)
■ Monmouthshire: 4.2 (unchanged)
■ Conwy: 7.7 (unchanged)
■ Anglesey: 11.4 (up from 8.6)
■ Gwynedd: 25.7 (up from 24.9)
■ Denbighshire: 8.4 (up from 6.3)
■ Flintshire: 18.6 (down from 19.9)
■ Wrexham: 14.7 (down from 16.9)
■ Cardiff: 22.6 (down from 23.2)
■ Vale of Glamorgan: 10.5 (up from 9.7)
■ Merthyr Tydfil: 13.3 (unchanged)
■ Rhondda Cynon Taf: 15.3 (unchanged)
■ Bridgend: 8.8 (up from 8.2)
■ Carmarthenshire: 7.9 (down from 9)
■ Pembrokeshire: 4 (down from 4.8)
■ Ceredigion: 5.5 (down from 6.9)
■ Powys: 15.1 (down from 16.6)
■ Neath Port Talbot: 18.8 (up from 18.1)
■ Swansea: 27.1 (down from 29.2)
■ Wales total: 15.2 (down from 15.4 )
The Welsh Government announced on Monday that six people can meet outdoors from Saturday, April 24, without a restriction on the number of households.