Another 10 people have died with
coronavirus in Wales, taking the total to 5,011, reports Public Health
Wales (PHW). Its data also showed 351 more people had tested positive for Covid-19, taking the total
to 197,021. Of the new deaths, 3 were
reported by Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board covering North Wales, 2 for Hywel Dda Health Board, 2 in Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board, 2 in Aneurin Bevan Health Board and 1 death in Swansea Bay Health Board.
The local authority area with the highest case rate is Wrexham, where 235 people for every 100,000 of the population has tested positive for the virus in the past seven days. It is followed by Flintshire at 221 and Anglesey at 178.5. The area with the lowest case rate is Ceredigion with 59.2, followed by Pembrokeshire with 65 and Monmouthshire with 77.2.
There were 361 deaths with Covid-19 in Wales in the latest weekly figures from the Office for National Statistics. This is 86 fewer than last week and the second successive fall, but Covid still accounts for 37.1% of all deaths. It takes the total number of deaths, as measured by the ONS, in the pandemic in Wales to 6,843.
Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board area with 73 deaths experienced its second worst week of the pandemic. They included 42 deaths in hospitals in North Wales and 29 in care homes, for the week ending 29th January. Nearly two thirds of these were in North East Wales, which has been the hotpot for Covid in Wales in recent weeks. There were 13 deaths in hospital involving Flintshire residents and 12 in Wrexham, which also had 12 deaths involving care home residents.
There were also 66 deaths in Cwm Taf Morgannwg,
including 23 hospital deaths in Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) and 14 in Bridgend. There
were also 27 hospital deaths in Cardiff, while Carmarthenshire had 18 care home
deaths and 17 in hospitals.
It was still the sixth highest weekly total of
deaths involving Covid, although it has fallen back from numbers seen in
mid-January. Up to and registered by 29 January, the total is 6,691 people.
When deaths registered over the following few days are counted, the total is
6,843.
Rhondda Cynon Taf (RCT) with 821 deaths has the
largest number of Covid-19 deaths occurring in Wales, followed by Cardiff with
753 up to the latest week. When looking at crude death rates based on local
populations Wales has four of the highest 10 across England and Wales. RCT
has 340.3 deaths per 100,000 in total so far in the pandemic. Merthyr is third
with 323.2. Bridgend and Blaenau Gwent are also in the highest 10. There were
93 deaths involving Covid in care homes in Wales.
Today's numbers of #COVID19 cases in the local areas of Llanelli...
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