The Numbers that Matter...: Another 4 weeks of restrictions...Delta variant 1

Today Welsh Government confirmed a 4-week pause to the coronavirus rules as the monitoring of the spread of the Delta variant is continued…Full details…

No further deaths today with coronavirus in Wales, reports Public Health Wales. PHW reported 163 new cases, bringing the total to 214,545. Of the new cases, there were 23 in both Cardiff and Flintshire, 15 in Conwy and 14 in Wrexham. The number of people who have died with the virus in Wales remains at 5,572. The case rate is 23.6 infections per 100,000 people, a rise from 22.5 reported on Thursday. Positive tests are running at an average of 101 per day, compared to 56 in the previous week.

The weekly case rate per 100,000 people remains highest in Conwy County, where a cluster of cases of the Delta variant has been confirmed, having risen again to 82.8 from 71.7 on Thursday. That is followed by Denbighshire on 77.3 and Flintshire on 38.4. There are a higher incidence of cases among the under 25s and this also shows up in Covid data for schools. There were 62 positive tests among school pupils and staff in North Wales in the most recent seven-day period out of 105 across Wales, reported by Public Health Wales. They include 21 in Conwy, 15 in Denbighshire and 13 in Flintshire. Half of the 204 cases linked to pupils and staff in Wales in the last three weeks were in the Betsi Cadwaladr area.

The area with the lowest case rate currently is Powys 8.3 cases per 100,000, the second lowest in the mainland UK. This is followed by Blaenau Gwent at 8.6 and Merthyr Tydfil at 9.9.

Covid-19 vaccine update: 2,228,532 people in Wales have now had their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. 1,473,927 people are now fully vaccinated.

Today’s numbers of new Covid cases in the Local Authorities of Wales…