Nine more people have died with coronavirus in Wales according to latest figures from Public Health Wales.
New figures published on Sunday, November 7, which covers the 24 hours up to 9am on November 5, shows the total number of Covid-related deaths in Wales now stands at 6,223.
There were also 2,583 new positive cases recorded in the latest update bringing the total number since the pandemic began to 455, 023.
The latest seven-day infection rate across Wales based on the cases for every 100,000 people (for the seven days up to November 1) now stands at 546.8 – a slight drop from the 548.4 reported on Friday.
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The local authority with the highest infection rate in Wales is now Vale of Glamorgan with 767 cases per 100,000 population over seven days followed by Torfaen with 755.6 and Caerphilly with 710.2.
The test positivity rate across Wales is at 22.5%, which is slightly down on the 23.2% reported on Friday.
The areas of the country recording the highest numbers of Covid cases in the latest 24-hour period were Cardiff with 398 and Swansea with 205, Caerphilly with 174, Caerphilly with 174 and Carmarthenshire and Neath Port Talbot both with 152.
Meanwhile the Vale of Glamorgan has 147 cases, Rhondda Cynon Taf with 133, Powys with 132, Torfaen with 119, Newport with 118 and Bridgend with 116.
Eleven places had under 100 cases, including Flint with 97, Wrexham with 87, Conwy 90, Monmouthshire with 68, Gwynedd with 66, Blaenau Gwent with 58, Denbighshire with 56, Pembrokeshire with 53, Merthyr Tydfil with 44.
The two lowest figures were 43 in Angelsey and 41 in Ceredigion.
Vale of Glamorgan had 96 new cases, Powys had 91, Neath Port Talbot had 89, Wrexham had 84, Torfaen had 73, Gwynedd had 72 and Pembrokeshire and Conwy both had 65.
As of November 4 there were 761 people in general and acute hospital beds with coronavirus (confirmed, suspected, and recovering), a fall on the 785 reported the day before.
Aneurin Bevan UHB had the most Covid patients in general and acute hospital beds on November 4 with 187 followed by Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB with 145, Cardiff and Vale UHB with 134, Hywel Dda UHB with 104, Betsi Cadwaladr UHB with 96 and Swansea Bay UHB with 94.
As of November 4 there were 73 people in invasive ventilated beds in Wales with coronavirus. Cardiff and Vale UHB had 20, Betsi Cadwaladr UHB had 14, Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB had 12, Hywel Dda UHB had 11, Aneurin Bevan UHB had 10 and Swansea Bay UHB had six.
On Sunday Public Health Wales figures showed that 2,448,879 people have had one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 2,246,996 have had both doses.
PHW has now released figures on the number of people who have received their Covid booster vaccine. To date 492,433 have had it including more than two-thirds of care home residents (71.6%), two-thirds of healthcare workers (66.6%), and more than half of care home workers (56.5%) and those over 80 years old (64%).
On Tuesday the Welsh Government confirmed that it has now offered a Covid jab to all 12 to 15-year-olds. However to date only 46.5% of people in this age group have actually had it. You can read more about that here.
Uptake of the first vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
- Severely immunosuppressed: 99.2%
- Care home residents: 98.2%
- Care home workers: 94.3%
- 80 years and older: 96.2%
- Healthcare workers: 97.1%
- Social care workers: 45,544
- 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: 90.1%
- 40-49 years: 85.2%
- 30-39 years: 78.8%
- 18-29 years: 78.2%
- 16-17 years: 75%
- 12-15 years: 46.5%
Uptake of the second vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
Severely immunosuppressed: 49%
- Care home residents: 96.8%
- Care home workers: 91.7%
- 80 years and older: 95.4%
- Healthcare workers: 95.6%
- Social care workers: 45,015
- 75-79 years: 96.4%
- 70-74 years: 95.8%
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 93.7%
- 65-69 years: 94.3%
- Clinical risk groups 12-64 years: 86.3%
- 60-64 years: 92.5%
- 55-59 years: 90.5%
- 50-54 years: 88.3%
- 40-49 years: 82.4%
- 30-39 years: 73.8%
- 18-29 years: 70.9%
- 16-17 years: 26.6%
- 12-15 years: 0.5%
Uptake of booster vaccines (according to PHW)
- Care home residents: 71.6%
- Care home workers: 56.5%
- 80 years and older: 64%
- Healthcare workers: 66.6%
- Social care workers: 29,035
- 75-79 years: 61.5%
- 70-74 years: 50.8%
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 18.3%
- 65-69 years: 23.8%
- Clinical risk groups 12-64 years: 3.2%
- 60-64 years: 12.1%
- 55-59 years: 11.9%
- 50-54 years: 11.2%
- 40-49 years: 9.3%
- 30-39 years: 6.8%
- 18-29 years: 4.4%
- 16-17 years: 0.7%
Infection rate for every 100,000 people in each area for the seven days up to October 31:
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Blaenau Gwent: 645.6 (up from 634.1)
Newport: 596.1 (down from 611.6)
Caerphilly: 710.2 (down from 725.1)
Torfaen: 755.6 (down from 768.4)
Monmouthshire: 577.2 (up from 575.1)
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Conwy: 386.5 (up from 375.4)
Anglesey: 404 (down from 405.5)
Gwynedd: 501.8 (up from 495.3)
Denbighshire: 458.7 (down from 462.9)
Flintshire: 435 (up from 429.9)
Wrexham: 409 (down from 425.9)
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Cardiff: 611.9 (down from 617.3)
Vale of Glamorgan: 767.3 (down from 774.8)
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Merthyr Tydfil: 462.5 (up from 459.2)
Rhondda Cynon Taf: 474.6 (down from 477.9)
Bridgend: 493 (down from 495.1)
Hywel Dda University Health Board
Carmarthenshire: 497.4 (up from 492.7)
Pembrokeshire: 658.9 (down from 667.6)
Ceredigion: 423.7 (up from 419.6)
Powys Teaching Health Board
Powys: 473.4 (up from 465.1)
Swansea Bay University Health Board
Neath Port Talbot: 630.1 (up from 619.6)
Swansea: 496 (up from 485.4)
Wales total: 546.8 (down from 548.4)
A top health expert has said that new cases have peaked in the UK.
The UK Health Security Agency's Dr Susan Hopkins said the peak number of new cases was on October 18, with nearly 58,000 people being diagnosed.
She told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that while the UK is now at the flattening of the peak, the country could still stay at a "very, very high level like this, which will mean that we have deaths that could be prevented by vaccination".
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