A further eight people have died with coronavirus in Wales according to the latest figures from Public Health Wales.
New figures published on Monday, November 22, which cover the 48-hour period up to 9am on November 21, show the total number of Covid-related deaths in Wales now stands at 6,357.
There were also 4,489 new positive cases recorded in the latest update bringing the total number since the pandemic began to 491,640.
The latest seven-day infection rate across Wales, based on the cases for every 100,000 people (for the seven days up to November 17) now stands at 521 – a very slight drop from the 521.2 reported on Sunday. For more health-related content please go here
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The local authority with the highest infection rate in Wales is Gwynedd with 868.7 cases per 100,000 population over seven days followed by Vale of Glamorgan with 695.4 and Monmouthshire with 597.3.
The test positivity rate across Wales is at 18.8%, a fall from the 19.2% reported on Sunday.
The areas of the country recording the highest numbers of new Covid cases are Cardiff with 551, Carmarthenshire with 282, Gwynedd with 276, Swansea with 274, Vale of Glamorgan with 256, RCT with 248, Wrexham with 241, Caerphilly with 222, Pembrokeshire with 219 and Flintshire with 202.
Meanwhile, Neath Port Talbot had 189 new cases, Newport and Bridgend both had 180, Powys had 169, Monmouthshire had 160, Conwy had 131, Denbighshire had 117, Anglesey had 115 and Torfaen had 112.
The local authorities recording the fewest cases were Merthyr Tydfil with 86, Blaenau Gwent with 72, and Ceredigion with 55.
As of November 19 there were 653 people in general and acute hospital beds with coronavirus (confirmed, suspected, and recovering), a fall on the 722 reported on November 18. There were 57 people in a ventilated intensive care bed with Covid-19 on November 19, a drop on the 59 reported the day before.
Public Health Wales vaccination figures aren't updated over the weekend. The latest data showed that 2,464,221 people had received one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 2,257,689 had been given both doses.
To date 725,181 people have received their Covid booster vaccine according to PHW, including three-quarters of care home residents (78.1%) and over 80s (77.5%), over two-thirds of healthcare workers (71%) and over half of all care home workers (61.4%).
Uptake of the first vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
- Severely immunosuppressed: 99.2%
- Care home residents: 98.2%
- Care home workers: 94.5%
- 80 years and older: 96.2%
- Healthcare workers: 97.2%
- Social care workers: 45,773
- 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: 90.1%
- 60-64 years: 93.6%
- 55-59 years: 91.9%
- 50-54 years: 90.1%
- 40-49 years: 85.3%
- 30-39 years: 79%
- 18-29 years: 78.5%
- 16-17 years: 75.8%
- 12-15 years: 52.5%
Uptake of the second vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
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Severely immunosuppressed: 77.69%
- Care home residents: 96.8%
- Care home workers: 92%
- 80 years and older: 95.4%
- Healthcare workers: 95.8%
- Social care workers: 45,263
- 75-79 years: 96.4%
- 70-74 years: 95.8%
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 93.9%
- 65-69 years: 94.4%
- Clinical risk groups 12-64 years: 86.6%
- 60-64 years: 92.5%
- 55-59 years: 90.6%
- 50-54 years: 88.4%
- 40-49 years: 82.6%
- 30-39 years: 74.3%
- 18-29 years: 71.5%
- 16-17 years: 30.3%
- 12-15 years: 0.8%
Uptake of booster vaccines (according to PHW)
- Care home residents: 78.1%
- Care home workers: 61.4%
- 80 years and older: 77.5%
- Healthcare workers: 71%
- Social care workers: 31,805
- 75-79 years: 81.3%
- 70-74 years: 78.8%
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 37.2%
- 65-69 years: 59.2%
- Clinical risk groups 12-64 years: 12.3%
- 60-64 years: 24%
- 55-59 years: 18%
- 50-54 years: 15.4%
- 40-49 years: 11.6%
- 30-39 years: 8.2%
- 18-29 years: 5.3%
- 16-17 years: 1.7%
Infection rate for every 100,000 people in each area for the seven days up to November 15:
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Blaenau Gwent: 470.9 (down from 495.3)
Newport: 489.4 (down from 504.3)
Caerphilly: 495.9 (down from 507)
Torfaen: 548.1 (down from 567.3)
Monmouthshire: 597.3 (up from 556.1)
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Conwy: 376.3 (up from 361.8)
Anglesey: 432.6 (up from 352.6)
Gwynedd: 868.7 (up from 772.3)
Denbighshire: 500.5 (down from 514.1)
Flintshire: 449.7 (up from 436.3)
Wrexham: 560.5 (up from 553.1)
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Cardiff: 532 (down from 556.8)
Vale of Glamorgan: 695.4 (unchanged)
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Merthyr Tydfil: 571.9 (up from 557)
Rhondda Cynon Taf: 486.2 (up from 461.7)
Bridgend: 454.3 (down from 465.8)
Hywel Dda University Health Board
Carmarthenshire: 505.9 (down from 548.8)
Pembrokeshire: 543.6 (up from 484.8)
Ceredigion: 253.1 (down from 279.2)
Powys Teaching Health Board
Powys: 527.1 (down from 547.4)
Swansea Bay University Health Board
Neath Port Talbot: 484.9 (down from 508.7)
Swansea: 505.3 (down from 524.3)
Wales total: 521 (down from 521.2 )
It is now compulsory for visitors to cinemas, theatres, and concert halls in Wales to show a Covid pass. You can read more about that here.
A week ago health officials recommended the Covid-19 vaccine booster programme should be extended to include healthy 40 to 49-year-olds. Read more here.
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) said all adults over the age of 40 should be offered a booster six months after their second dose. It is now up to the governments in all parts of the UK whether they act on the recommendation. You can find the Welsh Government statement here.
It has also said that 16 and 17-year-olds should come forward for a second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech jab – which should be given at least 12 weeks after the first.
Those over 50 have already been offered a third jab, a booster, after it was found that immunity from the first two jabs had waned.
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