TWO FURTHER DEATHS AMID 3,200 NEW CASES

A FURTHER two people have died with coronavirus according to latest figures from Public Health Wales (PHW).

The data, published yesterday, also revealed there were 3,200 new positive cases, bringing the total number since the pandemic began to 404,844.

The two new additional deaths recorded brings the overall toll within 28 days of a positive Covid test to 6,037 in Wales.

The latest seven-day infection rate across Wales based on the cases for every 100,000 people (seven days up to October 14) has now risen to 585.1 – up from 560.4 on Monday.

The local authority with the highest infection rate in Wales is Torfaen with 822.7 cases per 100,000 people over seven days, followed by Cardiff with 779.2 and Pembrokeshire with 760.6.

Test positivity rates across Wales have risen to 20.1%, meaning a fifth of all those getting tests are coming back positive. A quarter of people in Pembrokeshire having their test come back positive (25.1%) – the highest of any local authority.

The areas of the country recording the highest numbers of Covid cases in the latest 24-hour period were Cardiff with 320, Caerphilly with 313, RCT with 304, Newport with 262, Neath Port Talbot with 246, Blaenau Gwent with 180, Torfaen with 155, Pembrokeshire with 146, the Vale of

Glamorgan with 141, Swansea with 127, Carmarthenshire with 125, Powys with 121 and Bridgend with 120.

The local authorities with the lowest numbers of cases include Wrexham with 47, Anglesey with 37 and Conwy with 36.

As of October 15 there were 611 people in general and acute hospital beds with coronavirus (confirmed, suspected, and recovering) – down from 618 – and 51 people in invasive ventilated beds in Wales with coronavirus.

On Monday Public Health Wales figures showed that 2,418,115 people have had one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 2,236,392 have had both doses.