Wales On Sunday

THE FIGURES

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ANOTHER 22 people have died in Wales with coronaviru­s, Public Health Wales confirmed yesterday.

The latest figures show that

400 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the past 24 hours – down from 608 on Friday – bringing the total in Wales since the outbreak of the pandemic to 198,761.

The number of people in Wales to have died with coronaviru­s within a month of a positive test now stands at 5,106.

The infection rate across Wales is currently 98.7 per 100,000 population based on the seven days up to February 8, a decrease from 102.3 on Friday. The current rate is the lowest it has been since September.

The latest data also shows that 749,445 have now received a first dose of the coronaviru­s vaccine, up from 715,944 published 24 hours earlier. Meanwhile, 4,224 have now received both doses of the vaccine.

Wrexham remains the local authority with the highest infection rate in Wales with a seven-day rate of 186.1 cases per 100,000 population, down from 199.3 on Friday.

Flintshire is in second with a seven-day rate of 161.4 cases per 100,000 population, which is down from 172.3 when compared with the day before.

Anglesey remains the thirdhighe­st rate with 144.2 cases per 100,000, down from 164.2 on the previous day.

Across Wales the positivity rate of tests is down to 8.5% for the past seven-day period which is below a key Welsh Government threshold for easing lockdown restrictio­ns. The highest rate is in Flintshire where 12.8.% of tests have come back positive in the last week.

Cases per 100,000 based on seven-day rolling average (February 2 to February 8):

Wrexham: 186.1 (down from 199.3)

Flintshire: 161.4 (down from 172.3)

Anglesey: 144.2 (down from 164.2)

Conwy: 127.1 (down from 138.2) Torfaen: 114.9 (down from 127.7) Rhondda Cynon Taf: 109.4 (up from 99.9)

Powys: 107.2 (up from 98.2)

Vale of Glamorgan: 105.5 (up from 101.8)

Newport: 100.2 (down from 104.1) Merthyr Tydfil: 94.5 (down from 102.8)

Cardiff: 93.5 (down from 97.3) Blaenau Gwent: 93.0 (down from 98.8)

Caerphilly: 90.0 (down from 92.8) Gwynedd: 89.9 (up from 86.7) Carmarthen­shire: 87.9 (down from 98.5)

Neath Port Talbot: 88.6 (down from 90)

Denbighshi­re: 76.3 (down from 84.6)

Bridgend: 70.0 (down from 74.1) Swansea: 67.2 (up from 66) Monmouthsh­ire: 65.5 (down from 68.7)

Pembrokesh­ire: 46.9 (down from 54.8)

Ceredigion: 33.0 (down from 38.5) Wales total: 98.7 (down from 102.3)

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