A further 17 people have died with coronavirus in Wales - but the seven-day infection rate has fallen sharply.
New figures from Public Health Wales (PHW) published on Monday, November 1, which covers the 48 hours up to 9am on October 31, shows the total number of Covid-related deaths in Wales now stands at 6,167.
There were also 4,983 new positive cases recorded in today's update, bringing the total number since the pandemic began to 442,953.
The latest seven-day infection rate across Wales based on the cases for every 100,000 people (for the seven days up to October 27) now stands at 558.9 – a significant fall from the 618.1 reported on Sunday and a fifth consecutive day where rates have fallen. For more health-related content please go here.
The local authority with the highest infection rate in Wales is now Torfaen with 792.9 cases per 100,000 population over seven days, followed by Vale of Glamorgan with 734.4 and Caerphilly with 715.7.
The test positivity rate across Wales is at 23%, which is slightly up from 22.8% on Sunday. Nearly three in ten people in Neath Port Talbot are having their test come back positive (27.6%) - the highest of any local authority.
The areas of the country recording the highest numbers of Covid cases in the latest 24-hour period were Cardiff with 567, Caerphilly with 408, RCT with 332, Swansea with 326, Vale of Glamorgan with 298, Pembrokeshire with 280, Newport with 274, Carmarthenshire with 263 and Neath Port Talbot with 232.
Meanwhile Wrexham had 191 new cases, Bridgend had 186, Torfaen and Gwynedd both had 179, Powys had 169, Flintshire had 164 and Monmouthshire had 156.
The local authorities with the lowest number of cases included Denbighshire with 125, Blaenau Gwent with 121, Conwy with 116, Ceredigion with 100, Merthyr Tydfil with 86 and Anglesey with 80.
As of October 29, there were 758 people in general and acute hospital beds with coronavirus (confirmed, suspected, and recovering), a rise on the 754 reported the day before.
Aneurin Bevan UHB had the most Covid patients in general and acute hospital beds on October 29 with 182 followed by Cardiff and Vale UHB with 141, Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB with 128, Hywel Dda UHB with 116, Swansea Bay UHB with 101 and Betsi Cadwaladr UHB with 88.
As of October 29 there were 68 people in invasive ventilated beds in Wales with coronavirus. Cardiff and Vale UHB had 13, Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB and Aneurin Bevan UHB had 12 each, Betsi Cadwaladr UHB had 11, and Swansea Bay UHB and Hywel Dda UHB both had 10.
On Sunday Public Health Wales figures showed that 2,445,438 people have had one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 2,244,276 have had both doses.
PHW has now released figures on the number of people who have received their Covid booster vaccine. To date, 432,716 have had it including more than two-thirds of care home residents (68.5%), close to two-thirds of healthcare workers (65.3%), an more than half of care home workers (54.8%) and those over 80 years old (59.1%).
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is now being administered to 12 to 15-year-olds in mass vaccination centres and some schools. You can read more about that here.
Uptake of the first vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
- Severely immunosuppressed: 99.3%
- Care home residents: 98.2%
- Care home workers: 94.3%
- 80 years and older: 96.2%
- Healthcare workers: 97.1%
- Social care workers: 45,464
- 75-79 years: 97%
- 70-74 years: 96.4%
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 95.3%
- 65-69 years: 95.2%
- Clinical risk groups 12-64 years: 90%
- 60-64 years: 93.6%
- 55-59 years: 91.9%
- 50-54 years: 90%
- 40-49 years: 85.2%
- 30-39 years: 78.7%
- 18-29 years: 78.1%
- 16-17 years: 74.8%
- 12-15 years: 45.1%
Uptake of the second vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
Severely immunosuppressed: 43.5%
- Care home residents: 96.8%
- Care home workers: 91.6%
- 80 years and older: 95.3%
- Healthcare workers: 95.5%
- Social care workers: 44,930
- 75-79 years: 96.3%
- 70-74 years: 95.8%
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 93.7%
- 65-69 years: 94.3%
- Clinical risk groups 12-64 years: 86.2%
- 60-64 years: 92.4%
- 55-59 years: 90.5%
- 50-54 years: 88.3%
- 40-49 years: 82.3%
- 30-39 years: 73.7%
- 18-29 years: 70.7%
- 16-17 years: 25.3%
- 12-15 years: 0.5%
Uptake of booster vaccines (according to PHW)
- Care home residents: 68.5%
- Care home workers: 54.8%
- 80 years and older: 59.1%
- Healthcare workers: 65.3%
- Social care workers: 27,982
- 75-79 years: 52.8%
- 70-74 years: 42.1%
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 15.6%
- 65-69 years: 16.7%
- Clinical risk groups 12-64 years: 2.1%
- 60-64 years: 10.1%
- 55-59 years: 11%
- 50-54 years: 10.5%%
- 40-49 years: 8.9%
- 30-39 years: 6.5%
- 18-29 years: 4.2%
- 16-17 years: 0.6%
Infection rate for every 100,000 people in each area for the seven days up to October 25:
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Blaenau Gwent: 712.8 (down from 847)
Newport: 662 (down from 758.4)
Caerphilly: 715.7 (down from 812.4)
Torfaen: 792.9 (down from 872.7)
Monmouthshire: 604.7 (down from 657.6)
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Conwy: 346.4 (down from 378.8)
Anglesey: 374.1 (up from 371.2)
Gwynedd: 424.7 (down from 440.8)
Denbighshire: 478.6 (down from 520.4)
Flintshire: 376.7 (down from 388.2)
Wrexham: 365.6 (down from 368.5)
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Cardiff: 616.5 (down from 684.9)
Vale of Glamorgan: 734.4 (down from 790.5)
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Merthyr Tydfil: 538.7 (down from 636.5)
Rhondda Cynon Taf: 527.6 (down from 594.8)
Bridgend: 484.2 (down from 560.4)
Hywel Dda University Health Board
Carmarthenshire: 536.6 (down from 564.7)
Pembrokeshire: 683.5 (down from 764.6)
Ceredigion: 499.3 (down from 575)
Powys Teaching Health Board
Powys: 475.7 (down from 572.1)
Swansea Bay University Health Board
Neath Port Talbot: 676.1 (down from 737.5)
Swansea: 523.5 (down from 591.9)
Wales total: 558.9 (down from 618.1 )
On Friday, Mark Drakeford issued a stark warning as part of the latest review of Wales' Covid rules. He warned restrictions could be reintroduced in Wales in three weeks if cases do not drop and announced some new rule changes which come into immediate effect.
The changes coming into force are:
- Changes to the rules around self-isolation. You can read all the details here.
- You'll need a Covid Pass in theatres and cinemas. Read more about that here.
- Headteachers will be helped to introduce measures if case rates are high locally.
- Shops have been encouraged to get people to stick to the rules to wear masks.
- Businesses will be encouraged to resume working from home.
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