EIGHT MORE DIE AS INFECTION RATE DROPS
A FURTHER eight people have died with coronavirus in Wales, according to the latest figures from Public Health Wales (PHW).
New figures published yesterday, which cover the 48-hour period up to 9am on November 21, show the total number of Covid-related deaths in Wales now stands at 6,357. There were also 4,489 new positive cases recorded, bringing the total number since the pandemic began to 491,640.
The latest seven-day infection rate across Wales, based on the cases for every 100,000 people (for the seven days up to November 17) now stands at 521 – a very slight drop from the 521.2 reported on Sunday.
The local authority with the highest infection rate in Wales is Gwynedd with 868.7 cases per 100,000 population over seven days, followed by Vale of Glamorgan with 695.4 and Monmouthshire with 597.3. The test positivity rate across Wales is at 18.8%, a fall from the 19.2% reported on Sunday.
The areas of the country recording the highest numbers of new Covid cases are Cardiff with 551, Carmarthenshire with 282, Gwynedd with 276, Swansea with 274, Vale of Glamorgan with 256, RCT with 248, Wrexham with 241, Caerphilly with 222, Pembrokeshire with 219 and Flintshire with 202.
Meanwhile, Neath Port Talbot had 189 new cases, Newport and Bridgend both had 180, Powys had 169, Monmouthshire had 160, Conwy had 131, Denbighshire had 117, Anglesey had 115 and Torfaen had 112.
The local authorities recording the fewest cases were Merthyr Tydfil with 86, Blaenau Gwent with 72 and Ceredigion with 55.
As of November 19 there were 653 people in general and acute hospital beds with coronavirus (confirmed, suspected, and recovering) – down from 722 – and 57 people in a ventilated intensive care bed with Covid-19 on November 19, a drop on the 59 reported the day before.
The latest PHW data also shows that 2,464,221 people have received one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 2,257,689 have been given both doses.
To date, 725,181 people have received their Covid booster vaccine according to PHW, including three-quarters of care home residents (78.1%) and over-80s (77.5%), over two-thirds of healthcare workers (71%) and over half of all care home workers (61.4%).