FOUR FURTHER DEATHS

FOUR more people have died with coronavirus in Wales according to latest figures from Public Health Wales (PHW).

The data, published yesterday, also revealed there were 2,266 new positive cases, bringing the total number since the pandemic began to 386,516. The four additional deaths recorded brings the overall toll to 5,978 in Wales.

The latest seven-day infection rate across Wales based on the cases for every 100,000 people (seven days up to October 8) now stands at 522.9 – a rise on the 514.8 reported on Tuesday. The figures announced yesterday are for the 24-hour period up to 9am on October 12 according to PHW.

The local authority with the highest infection rate in Wales is Torfaen with 720.5 cases per 100,000 people over seven days, followed by Vale of Glamorgan with 703.7 and Cardiff with 650.6.

Test positivity rates across Wales now stand at 17%, with Vale of Glamorgan having the greatest proportion of tests coming back positive at 21.5%.

The areas of the country recording the highest numbers of Covid cases in the latest 24-hour period were Cardiff with 393, Swansea with 209, Vale of Glamorgan with 167, Rhondda Cynon Taf with 165, Carmarthenshire with 155, Wrexham with 128, Gwynedd with 108, and Pembrokeshire with 100.

Meanwhile Denbighshire had 95, Flintshire had 77, Conwy had 76, Powys had 75, Torfaen had 70, Bridgend had 63, Caerphilly had 59, Newport had 58, and Neath Port Talbot had 52.

The local authorities with the lowest numbers of cases were Anglesey with 47, Merthyr Tydfil with 38, Ceredigion with 33, Monmouthshire with 31 ,and Blaenau Gwent with 15.

As of Tuesday there were 605 people in general and acute hospital beds with coronavirus (confirmed, suspected, and recovering) – up on the 594 reported in the previous day’s figures – and 51 people in invasive ventilated beds in Wales with coronavirus.

Swansea Bay UHB had the most with 11, Hywel Dda UHB and Betsi Cadwaladr UHB had 10 each, Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB had nine, Aneurin Bevan UHB had six, and Cardiff and Vale UHB had five.

Yesterday’s PHW figures showed that 2,403,211 people have had one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 2,231,804 have had both doses.