Another 49 people have died in Wales with coronavirus, reports Public Health Wales. The number of deaths of people with Covid-19 in Wales is now 4,961. There were also 675 new Covid cases reported in the last 24 hour period, taking the total number of cases to 195,599.
Reports show that there were 23 deaths in the Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board area covering North Wales. A further 11 deaths were confirmed in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board area, with 6 in Cardiff and Vale and 3 in Aneurin Bevan Health Board, 3 in Swansea Bay Health Board and 3 in Hywel Dda Health Board area.
Wrexham continues to be the local authority area
with the highest case rate, 272.1
people per 100,000 population have
tested positive for the virus in the past seven days, with Flintshire next with
a rate of 233.8. The areas with the
lowest case rate are Ceredigion with 49.5
per 100,000 people, followed by
Gwynedd with 66.6 and Monmouthshire
with 80.3.
Merthyr Tydfil, which had the highest Covid case
rate in the UK before Christmas, recorded a seven day average of 81.4, making it the area with the
fourth-lowest case rate in Wales. This compares to a Wales-wide case rate of 123 per 100,000 of the population, according to figures published on
Saturday.
More than half a million people had now received
their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine in Wales 556,997 people now having been vaccinated. On Friday 33,995 people were vaccinated,
the highest number in a day since the start of the rollout in Wales, 17.7%
of the population have now had the vaccination.
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