One more death
with Covid-19 has been reported in Wales, according to Public Health Wales. It means the total number of deaths reported by PHW since the start of the
pandemic has risen to 5,557. A further 30 people have tested positive for the virus. The
total number of people in Wales who have tested positive since the start of the
pandemic is 211,961. The seven-day rate of infection has risen to 8.8 cases for every 100,000 people in Wales, with less than 1% of tests returning a
positive result. Newport has the highest rate in Wales with 25.2 cases per 100,000 people and Blaenau Gwent is showing the lowest case
rate at 1.4.
There were deaths involving Covid-19 in only six Welsh council
areas, the latest week of figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)
show. There were no deaths in 16 out of Wales' local
authority areas, including across the whole of the Hywel Dda and Powys Health
Board areas. When broken down by local authority area, there were:
- Two deaths in Bridgend, in a hospital and a care
home
- One death each in hospitals in Cardiff, Gwynedd,
Swansea and Torfaen
- A death in a care home in Vale of Glamorgan
The
number of people who have had their first coronavirus vaccine dose is 1,948,683, with 854,441 receiving both doses.
Today’s numbers of Covid-19 cases in the local areas of Llanelli…
Thought for the Day…




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