Two deaths and 102 new cases recorded over 48-hour period
TWO more people have died with coronavirus in Wales and in excess of 100 new positive cases have been identified.
The 102 new cases reported on Monday by Public Health Wales (PHW), which cover a 48-hour period, bring the total number since the pandemic began up to 210,925.
Wales’s overall number of lab-confirmed coronavirus deaths now stands at 5,540.
The infection rate across Wales now stands at 15.9 cases per 100,000 people for the seven days up to April 14, a drop from 17.9 on Sunday.
PHW no longer publishes its daily coronavirus figures on a Saturday meaning that Sunday’s update featured the data recorded in the 24 hours up until 9am on Friday. As a result the figures reported ysterday included a 48-hour period - double the length of time usually reported in the daily update.
Meanwhile the percentage of tests coming back with positive results is now down to 1.7%. The latest figures also show that 1,692,463 people have received the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine and 602,807 people have had both doses.
Uptake of the first vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
Care home residents: 15,053 (97.5%)
Care home workers: 34,316 (90.1%)
80 years and older: 166,478 (95.4%)
Healthcare workers: 133,715 (93.8%)
Social care workers: 45,083 (no percentage available)
75-79 years: 127,847 (96%)
70-74 years: 175,099 (95.4%)
Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 75,475 (92.7%)
65-69 years: 168,670 (93.5%)
Clinical risk groups 16-64 years: 296,994 (84.2%)
60-64 years: 187,226 (91%)
55-59 years: 206,659 (88.4%)
50-54 years: 195,282 (85.7%)
40-49 years: 234,336 (59.8%)
30-39 years: 120,464 (28.7%)
18-29 years: 85,668 (18.4%)
Cardiff was by far the local authority reporting the most cases with 19 followed by Gwynedd with 10, Powys with eight, and Swansea and Caerphilly with seven.
Newport and Bridgend had six new cases, Torfaen and Rhondda Cynon Taf had five, and Anglesey, Carmarthenshire, and
Flintshire had four.
Wrexham had three new cases while Denbighshire, Vale of Glamorgan, and Neath Port Talbot had two each. Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire, and Ceredigion had one each.
Conwy, Merthyr Tydfil and Pembrokeshire all recorded no new cases.
Cases per 100,000 based on seven-day rolling average (April 8 to April 14):
Swansea: 31.2 (up from 30.4)
Newport: 30.4 (up from 29.1)
Cardiff: 25.6 (down from 28.1)
Gwynedd: 24.1 (down from 30.5)
Neath Port Talbot: 19.5 (up from 18.1)
Flintshire: 19.2 (down from 22.4)
Rhondda Cynon Taf: 17 (down from 21.1)
Wrexham: 16.9 (down from 19.1)
Powys: 16.6 (down from 17.4)
Merthyr Tydfil: 14.9 (up from 11.6)
Vale of Glamorgan: 10.5 (down from 13.5)
Carmarthenshire: 9.5 (down from 10.1)
Anglesey: 8.6 (down from 21.4)
Conwy: 8.5 (down from 10.2)
Denbighshire: 7.3 (down from 8.4)
Blaenau Gwent: 7.2 (down from 10)
Pembrokeshire: 7.2 (down from 7.9)
Ceredigion: 6.9 (up from 5.5)
Caerphilly: 6.1 (down from 7.7)
Bridgend: 6.1 (down from 12.9)
Monmouthshire: 4.2 (up from 1.1)
Torfaen: 1.1 (down from 3.2)
All-wales average: 15.9 (down from 17.9)
On Friday it was announced that the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advised that pregnant women should be offered the Covid-19 vaccine at the same time as the rest of the population based on their age and clinical risk group.
Dr Giri Shankar, incident director for the novel coronavirus outbreak response at Public Health Wales, added: “As there is more experience of the use of the Pfizer Biontech and Moderna vaccines in pregnancy those vaccines are therefore the preferred vaccines to offer to pregnant women.
“We would like to remind the public that coronavirus is still circulating in our communities and a large number of people have not been fully vaccinated. It is therefore vital that people observe social distancing, wear face coverings when in indoor spaces, and wash hands regularly. These actions will help to prevent transmission of the virus.”