A further nine people have died with coronavirus in Wales according to the latest figures from Public Health Wales.
New data published which covers the 24-hour period up to 9am on December 9 shows the total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test in Wales now stands at 6,476.
There were also 2,462 new positive cases recorded in the latest update bringing the total number since the pandemic began to 532,302.
The latest seven-day infection rate across Wales, based on the cases for every 100,000 people (for the seven days up to December 5) now stands at 504.6 – a slight drop from the 507.1 reported on Thursday.
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The local authority with the highest infection rate in Wales is now Anglesey with 840.9 cases per 100,000 population over seven days followed by Gwynedd with 789.2 and Wrexham with 617.8.
The test positivity rate across Wales is at 16.8% which is slightly down on the 16.9% from Thursday.
The areas of the country recording the highest numbers of new Covid cases in the latest 24-hour period are Swansea with 191, Cardiff and Wrexham with 180 each, Rhondda Cynon Taf with 146, Newport and Bridgend with 138 each, Gwynedd with 136, Flintshire with 131, Caerphilly with 123, Carmarthenshire with 121, Neath Port Talbot with 120 and De3nbighshire with 101.
Meanwhile, the Vale of Glamorgan had 95 new cases, Anglesey had 90, Monmouthshire, Torfaen and Conwy had 74 each, Powys had 72 and Blaenau Gwent had 62.
The counties with the lowest cases were Merthyr Tydfil with 49, Pembrokeshire with 42 and Ceredigion with 28.
As of December 9, there were 515 people in general and acute hospital beds with coronavirus (confirmed, suspected, and recovering), a rise on the 482 reported on December 8.
There were 39 people in a ventilated intensive care bed with Covid-19 on December 9, up from 36.
The latest data showed that 2,474,675 people had received one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 2,276,428 had been given both doses.
To date 1,018,630 people have received their Covid booster vaccine according to PHW, including more than three-quarters of care home residents (83.9%) and over 80s (82.2%), over three-quarters of healthcare workers (75.8%) and nearly two-thirds of all care home workers (65.4%).
Uptake of the first vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
- Severely immunosuppressed: 99.2%
- Care home residents: 98.2%
- Care home workers: 94.6%
- 80 years and older: 96.2%
- Healthcare workers: 97.3%
- Social care workers: 45,929
- 75-79 years: 97%
- 70-74 years: 96.4%
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 95.4%
- 65-69 years: 95.2%
- Clinical risk groups 12-64 years: 90.3%
- 60-64 years: 93.6%
- 55-59 years: 91.9%
- 50-54 years: 90.2%
- 40-49 years: 85.4%
- 30-39 years: 79.2%
- 18-29 years: 78.8%
- 16-17 years: 76.7%
- 12-15 years: 55.4%
Uptake of the second vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
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Severely immunosuppressed: 85.5%
- Care home residents: 97.2%
- Care home workers: 92.3%
- 80 years and older: 95.5%
- Healthcare workers: 95.9%
- Social care workers: 45,449
- 75-79 years: 96.5%
- 70-74 years: 95.9%
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 94%
- 65-69 years: 94.5%
- Clinical risk groups 12-64 years: 86.9%
- 60-64 years: 92.6%
- 55-59 years: 90.7%
- 50-54 years: 88.5%
- 40-49 years: 82.8%
- 30-39 years: 74.8%
- 18-29 years: 72%
- 16-17 years: 43.3%
- 12-15 years: 2.2%
Uptake of booster vaccines (according to PHW)
- Care home residents: 84.2%
- Care home workers: 65.8%
- 80 years and older: 82.5%
- Healthcare workers: 76.2%
- Social care workers: 34,960
- 75-79 years: 85.9%
- 70-74 years: 85.6%
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 48.3%
- 65-69 years: 80.1%
- Clinical risk groups 12-64 years: 43.9%
- 60-64 years: 59.2%
- 55-59 years: 42.4%
- 50-54 years: 31.5%
- 40-49 years: 20.2%
- 30-39 years: 12.6%
- 18-29 years: 8%
- 16-17 years: 2.5%
Infection rate for every 100,000 people in each area for the seven days up to December 5:
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Blaenau Gwent: 525.3 (up from 503.9)
Newport: 478.4 (down from 484.9)
Caerphilly: 470.5 (down from 485.4)
Torfaen: 486.43 (up from 469.3)
Monmouthshire: 486.3 (down from 488.4)
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Conwy: 416.4 (down from 421.5)
Anglesey: 840.9 (up from 839.5)
Gwynedd: 789.2 (down from 872.7)
Denbighshire: 529.8 (up from 499.5)
Flintshire: 543.2 (up from 531.7)
Wrexham: 617.8 (up from 602.4)
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Cardiff: 472.9 (down from 474.5)
Vale of Glamorgan: 596.6 (up from 592.9)
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Merthyr Tydfil: 407.8 (down from 414.4)
Rhondda Cynon Taf: 392.1 (down from 407.9)
Bridgend: 617.5 (down from 620.2)
Hywel Dda University Health Board
Carmarthenshire: 414.8 (down from 416.4)
Pembrokeshire: 586.8 (down from 588.9)
Ceredigion: 293 (up from 283.4)
Powys Teaching Health Board
Powys: 459.8 (up from 456.8)
Swansea Bay University Health Board
Neath Port Talbot: 418 (up from 406.8)
Swansea: 457.5 (down from 459.9)
Wales total: 504.6 (down from 507.1)
The First Minister said Wales would remain at alert level zero over the festive period but warned that people should expect Omicron cases to rise "quickly and sharply".
From tomorrow (Saturday) people will be asked to wear face coverings in pubs and restaurants when they aren’t eating or drinking.
Mark Drakeford fronted a coronavirus briefing on Friday to explain the current situation in Wales. Read what he said, together with analysis and response, here.
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