More than 280 new coronavirus cases have been reported in Wales in the past 24 hours, it has been revealed.
Latest figures from Public Health Wales published on Tuesday, June 29 identified 281 more positive cases of Covid-19 to bring the total since the pandemic began to 217,732.
No new deaths were reported on Tuesday, meaning the total number of deaths since the pandemic began remains at 5,575.
However, latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, which includes deaths in all settings including people's homes and in hospices and is seen as giving the fullest picture, has recorded 7,899 deaths in Wales. You can read more about that here.
PHW has confirmed that the overall infection rate in Wales now stands at 58.7 cases per 100,000 population based on the seven days between June 18 and June 24, up from 53.1 on Monday.
The figures are based on the date a test was done, not the date a test was put on the system, meaning it is an accurate reflection of how fast the virus is spreading in Wales.
There continues to be growing concern over Delta strain of coronavirus, with figures released by First Minister Mark Drakeford on Friday showing that the cases had more than doubled in a week from 500 to 1,100. You can read what he had to say here.
The area with the highest infection rate in Wales remains Flintshire with 145.4 cases per 100,000 population, up from 142.9 cases the day before. This is followed by Denbighshire with 112.9 cases per 100,000 and Wrexham with 112.5.
The percentage of tests coming back positive across Wales over the last week is now 3.9%, up from 3.6% reported on Monday. Flintshire has a far higher rate of 8.1%.
There were 20 people across Wales in hospital with confirmed coronavirus on June 28, and three with either confirmed or suspected Covid in an invasive ventilated bed, two of which were in Cardiff and Vale UHB and one in Betsi Cadwaladr UHB. Unlike the infection rate, hospital admissions do not appear to be increasing.
To date, 2,255,039 people in Wales have had at least one coronavirus vaccine (88.8% of the adult population), with 1,642,788 having both doses (64.7% of adult population).
Uptake of the first vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
- Care home residents: 14,409 (98.1%)
- Care home workers: 35,290 (92.7%)
- 80 years and older: 164,796 (96%)
- Healthcare workers: 136,974 (96%)
- Social care workers: 45,537 (no percentage available)
- 75-79 years: 128,159 (96.8%)
- 70-74 years: 176,012 (96.1%)
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 76,813 (94.4%)
- 65-69 years: 170,929 (94.8%)
- Clinical risk groups 16-64 years: 315,232 (89%)
- 60-64 years: 191,135 (93.1%)
- 55-59 years: 212,716 (91.1%)
- 50-54 years: 203,326 (89.1%)
- 40-49 years: 328,523 (83.4%)
- 30-39 years: 314,916 (74.1%)
- 18-29 years: 340,139 (71%)
Uptake of the second vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
- Care home residents: 13,846 (94.2%)
- Care home workers: 33,130 (87%)
- 80 years and older: 161,007 (93.8%)
- Healthcare workers: 130,758 (91.7%)
- Social care workers: 44,128 (no percentage available)
- 75-79 years: 126,027 (95.2%)
- 70-74 years: 173,639 (94.8%)
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 74,101 (91.1%)
- 65-69 years: 167,074 (92.7%)
- Clinical risk groups 16-64 years: 285,142 (80.5%)
- 60-64 years: 184,715 (89.9%)
- 55-59 years: 202,047 (86.6%)
- 50-54 years: 185,781 (81.4%)
- 40-49 years: 224,888 (57.1%)
- 30-39 years: 123,871 (29.1%)
- 18-29 years: 86,436 (18.1%)
Cardiff reported the most amount of cases on Tuesday with 40 followed by Flintshire with 27, Denbighshire with 21, and Caerphilly and RCT with 18 each.
Wrexham had 16 new cases, Conwy had 14, Gwynedd had 12 and Neath Port Talbot had 10.
Meanwhile Swansea recorded nine new cases, Torfaen and Bridgend had eight, Vale of Glamorgan and Pembrokeshire had seven, Monmouthshire and Powys had six, Newport, Anglesey and Carmarthenshire had five, Blaenau Gwent had two and Ceredigion had one.
Merthyr Tydfil was the only local authority not to record any new positive cases.
Cases per 100,000 based on seven-day rolling average (June 18 to June 24):
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Blaenau Gwent: 28.6 (up from 24.3)
Newport: 22.6 (up from 20)
Caerphilly: 30.9 (up from 29.8)
Torfaen: 35.1 (up from 29.8)
Monmouthshire: 32.8 (down from 34.9)
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Conwy: 90.4 (unchanged)
Anglesey: 60 (up from 52.8)
Gwynedd: 86.7 (up from 75.5)
Denbighshire: 112.9 (up from 104.5)
Flintshire: 145.4 (up from 142.9)
Wrexham: 112.5 (up from 91.2)
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Cardiff: 79.9 (up from 65.4)
Vale of Glamorgan: 53.9 (up from 50.9)
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Merthyr Tydfil: 21.5 (up from 16.6)
Rhondda Cynon Taf: 38.1 (up from 30.7)
Bridgend: 27.9 (unchanged)
Hywel Dda University Health Board
Carmarthenshire: 28.5 (up from 21.7)
Pembrokeshire: 45.3 (down from 50.1)
Ceredigion: 41.3 (up from 38.5)
Powys Teaching Health Board
Powys: 27.2 (up from 25.7)
Swansea Bay University Health Board
Neath Port Talbot: 37.7 (up from 33.5)
Swansea: 67.2 (up from 65.2)
Wales total: 58.7 (up from 53.1)
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People in north Wales are being advised to socially distance, take up the offer of a vaccine, self-isolate and get a test if they get coronavirus symptoms.
The increase in this region is thought to be linked to travel across the porous border with the north west of England.
Dr Eleri Davies, an incident director at PHW, said: "The Delta variant is known to be most common variant in all new cases in Wales and is shown to be more easily transmitted from person to person than the previously dominant Alpha variant. This means we all need to take steps to keep ourselves safe and reduce the risk of transmission.
"Our advice is particularly relevant to people travelling to areas where there are known clusters of coronavirus as community transmission of the variant is evident.
"We are seeing cases increase all over Wales but particularly in north east Wales where travel to and from England for work and leisure purposes is commonplace."
