THE LATEST FIGURES...
ANOTHER seven people have died in Wales after testing positive for coronavirus.
According to the latest data published by Public Health Wales on Saturday, March 27, there have been 201 new positive cases in the last 24-hour period, which brings the total number of people to have tested positive for coronavirus in the country since the outbreak began to 208,895.
The total number of people to have died in Wales within a month of testing positive now stands at 5,505.
The infection rate across the whole of Wales is currently 38.5 per 100,000 people, based on the seven days up to March 22
- the same as it was on Friday. Meanwhile the percentage of tests coming back with positive results is now 3% - below the key benchmark of 5%.
In terms of vaccinations the latest figures show that 1,365,355 people have received a first dose of a Covid vaccine and 400,743 people have had both doses.
Swansea was the county with the highest number of new cases in the most recent 24-hour period (up to Friday morning) with
21, followed by Cardiff with 19, Gwynedd with 17, Denbighshire with 15, Newport with 14, Caerphilly with 13, Anglesey and Merthyr Tydfil with 12, Neath Port Talbot with 11, and Wrexham with 10.
The other counties all had fewer than 10 new cases including Vale of Glamorgan, Flintshire, and Conwy with seven, Torfaen and Rhondda Cynon
Taf with six, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire with five, Monmouthshire with four, Powys with three, Blaenau Gwent and Bridgend with one, and Ceredigion with zero.
Cases per 100,000 based on seven-day rolling average (March 16 to March 22):
■ Merthyr Tydfil: 139.2 (up from 134.3)
■ Anglesey: 98.5 (up from 91.4)
■ Blaenau Gwent: 63.0 (down from 70.1)
■ Flintshire: 62.1 (down from 63.4)
■ Swansea: 53.8 (up from 51.4)
■ Conwy: 51.2 (down from 52)
■ Newport: 49.1 (down from (51.7) ■ Neath Port Talbot: 48.1 (down from 50.9)
■ Caerphilly: 40.3 (down from (44.7) ■ Cardiff: 33.8 (up from 32.7)
■ Gwynedd: 32.1 (unchanged)
■ Vale of Glamorgan: 31.4 (down from 32.2)
■ Carmarthenshire: 28.6 (up from 27.5)
■ Pembrokeshire: 24.6 (down from 27.8)
■ Wrexham: 24.3 (down from 29.4) ■ Rhondda Cynon Taf: 22.8 (up from 21.6)
■ Denbighshire: 21.9 (unchanged) ■ Powys: 20.4 (up from 19.6)
■ Monmouthshire: 20.1 (up from (12.7)
■ Torfaen: 19.2 (up from 17)
■ Bridgend: 17.0 (up from 15)
■ Ceredigion: 4.1 (down from 9.6)
■ Wales total: 38.5 (unchanged)