Nil deaths today...Cases down...But care is the buzz word and do not get complacent...

There have been no new Covid-related deaths reported in the last 24 hours in Wales. The number of people who have died with coronavirus remains at 5,524, Public Health Wales (PHW) reports. A further 64 positive tests have been reported. It brings the total number of cases to 211,042. Ten of the new cases were in Cardiff and seven in both Newport and Bridgend. Nine of Wales' council areas have single-figure seven-day case rates.

The area with the highest case rate is Swansea, where 27.1 people per 100,000 people have tested positive for the virus in the past seven days. That is followed by Newport on 25.9 and Gwynedd with 25.7. The areas with the lowest case rates are Blaenau Gwent 1.4, Pembrokeshire 4 and Monmouthshire 4.2. PHW's rolling deaths average is down to 1.1 a day there have been eight days in the past month when no deaths have occurred.

 

On vaccinations, 1,712,372 people have now received their first dose and 622,513 have had their second. Wales' Covid case rate has dropped slightly to 15.2 per 100,000 people down from 15.4 on Tuesday.

Today’s numbers of Covid-19 cases in the local areas of Llanelli… 

Thought for the Day…

Eight cases of the Indian variant of coronavirus have been confirmed in Wales, health officials have said. On Monday, India was added to a Red List of countries from which most travel to the UK is banned. Dr Giri Shankar of Public Health Wales (PHW) said all eight cases were people who had either returned from India or were their close household contacts.

So remember...