Two more deaths linked to Covid

TWO more people have died in Wales after testing positive for coronavirus, latest figures show.

New data published by Public Health Wales (PHW) yesterday also recorded 46 more positive cases to bring the overall number since the pandemic began to 212,434.

The seven-day infection rate across Wales as a whole now stands at 9.7, based on the number of new infections confirmed per 100,000 population in the week up to May 17, a slight increase on the 9.5 reported on Friday.

The overall Covid death toll in Wales, according to PHW figures, is 5,566 people since the start of the pandemic.

The percentage of Covid tests coming back with a positive result is 1%. The figure has been fluctuating around the same level for the past three weeks.

The case rate in Newport, where seven-day infection rates are the highest in Wales, has increased slightly to 33 cases per 100,000 after four days at 29. Some 2.6% of tests were returned as positive between May 11 and 17. The second most is Cardiff with 1.7%.

This weekend, Wales reached the milestone of fully vaccinating one million adults against coronavirus, with 1,000,706 how having received two doses of the vaccine.

Some 2,091,824 over-18s have also now received their first dose.

Cardiff and Swansea reported the most new cases today with eight each, followed by Carmarthenshire with four and Newport, Torfaen, Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taf and Neath Port Talbot, which all had three apiece.