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A further 176 cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Wales on Sunday, says Public Health Wales. There were no new deaths with Covid and the latest figures bring the number of reported cases to 214,721 in Wales. Wales' overall infection rate is now 25 cases per 100,000 people compared to less than 10 at the start of June but it is down on the second wave rates.  The number of people who have died with the virus in Wales remains at 5,572. 

Although 2.5% of tests are now positive tests compared to less than 1% last month, PHW data says there hasn't been a death from Covid since 9 June. The areas with the highest number of new cases are Cardiff with 35, Swansea with 17 and Pembrokeshire with 12 only Ceredigion did not report a new Covid positive test.

 

The areas of Wales with the highest case rates for the seven day period leading up to 14 June are all in north Wales. Denbighshire has the highest rates in Wales with 82.6 cases per 100,000 people, followed by Conwy 81.9 and Flintshire 47.4. The lowest case rates can be seen in the South Wales valley areas of Blaenau Gwent 5.7 and Merthyr Tydfil 6.6.

 

There were 29 patients with confirmed Covid in hospital beds according to the latest figures, including the one patient on a ventilated or critical care bed in Cardiff and Vale. Just under half of the 54 confirmed and suspected Covid admissions in hospitals in the last week have been in north Wales, although numbers remain small averaging eight a day across the whole of Wales.

 

Only one patient was being treated in critical care with Covid-19 in Welsh hospitals on Wednesday equalling a record low. NHS Wales chief executive Dr Andrew Goodall said they were keeping an eye over the next three or four weeks for any impact on hospital admissions but there had been very minimal cases involving the Delta variant in hospitals so far. 

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

Covid-19 vaccine update: 2,236,091 people in Wales have now had their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. 1,509,144 people are now fully vaccinated.

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

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Sunday's figure covers 24 hours up to 09:00 on Friday as data is not published on Saturday.  Monday's data will cover 48 hours to 09:00 on Sunday. Hospital numbers continue to be amongst lowest seen during the pandemic.