Numbers down today...the nice weather might play a part in the change of restrictions...

A Real Living Wage…? This needs to be implemented now… underpaid and overworked for far too long… All care and support workers should have had salaries that reflect the responsibility and difficulties associated with the roles long before now…There had been calls for a pay rise for social care workers in the wake of the Covid pandemic... At the May Senedd election Labour pledged to pay the "real living wage" to social care workers.

No new deaths and 98 new cases were reported by on Tuesday. Of these new cases, 48 are in the Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board area in North Wales, which covers Denbighshire. The infections in the local authority area were blamed on a series of gatherings of young people, including parties that brought them into close proximity with one another.

Wales' overall seven-day case rate has slowly risen to 20.1 per 100,000 up from 9.4 a week ago. This is the first time Wales has been above 20 cases per 100,000 since 4 April. The case rate remains highest in Conwy, where it has increased again to 57.2, followed by Denbighshire 48.1, Pembrokeshire 31 and Flintshire 30.7. The number of people who have died in Wales with the virus remains at 5,572, though total cases have hit 215,002. But Covid hospital numbers continue to remain low, with only two patients in critical care across Wales on Friday, out of 18 patients with confirmed Covid.

Every local authority in Wales has reported new cases, though north Wales has seen the largest numbers. The new cases include 15 in Conwy, 14 in Denbighshire, 9 in Cardiff, 8 in Flintshire and 7 in Wrexham. The weekly case rate per 100,000 people remains highest in Conwy County, having risen again to 57.2. Denbighshire's rate is now 48.1, with a cluster in Rhyl. But Merthyr Tydfil, which before Christmas had the UK's highest case rate, now, has the lowest in the mainland UK on 5 cases per 100,000. Caerphilly, Powys and Monmouthshire are all in the lowest 10 in the UK. 

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

Covid-19 vaccine update: 2,218,103 people in Wales have now had their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. 1,410,924 people are now fully vaccinated.

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

Thought for the Day… 

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