NINE FURTHER DEATHS WITH COVID
NINE more people have died with coronavirus in Wales, according to latest figures from Public Health Wales.
New figures published yesterday, which cover the 24 hours up to 9am on November 5, show the total number of Covid-related deaths in Wales now stands at 6,223.
There were also 2,583 new positive cases recorded in the latest update, bringing the total number since the pandemic began to 455,023.
The latest seven-day infection rate across Wales based on the cases for every 100,000 people (for the seven days up to November 1) now stands at 546.8 – a drop from the 548.4 reported on Friday.
The local authority with the highest infection rate in Wales is now Vale of Glamorgan with 767 cases per 100,000 people over seven days, followed by Torfaen with 755.6 and Caerphilly with 710.2.
The test positivity rate across Wales is at 22.5%, which is slightly down on the 23.2% reported on Friday.
The areas of the country recording the highest numbers of Covid cases in the latest 24-hour period were Cardiff with 398 and Swansea with 205, Caerphilly with 174 and Carmarthenshire and Neath Port Talbot both with 152.
Meanwhile, the Vale of Glamorgan has 147 cases, Rhondda Cynon Taf 133, Powys has 132, Torfaen has 119, Newport has 118 and Bridgend has 116.
Eleven places had under 100 cases, including Flint with 97, Wrexham with 87, Conwy with 90, Monmouthshire with 68, Gwynedd with 66, Blaenau Gwent with 58, Denbighshire with 56, Pembrokeshire with 53, and Merthyr Tydfil with 44.
The two lowest figures were 43 in Anglesey and 41 in Ceredigion.
Vale of Glamorgan had 96 new cases, Powys had 91, Neath Port Talbot had 89, Wrexham had 84, Torfaen had 73, Gwynedd had 72 and Pembrokeshire and Conwy both had 65.
As of November 4 there were 761 people in general and acute hospital beds with coronavirus (confirmed, suspected, and recovering) – a fall on the 785 reported the day before – and 73 people in invasive ventilated beds in Wales with coronavirus.
Yesterday Public Health Wales figures showed that 2,448,879 people have had one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 2,246,996 have had both doses.
PHW has now released figures on the number of people who have received their Covid booster vaccine.
To date 492,433 have had it, including more than two-thirds of care home residents (71.6%), two-thirds of healthcare workers (66.6%), and more than half of care home workers (56.5%) and those over 80 years old (64%).