A further 11 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 7 shows the total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test in Wales now stands at 6,452.
There were also 2,313 new positive cases recorded in the latest update bringing the total number since the pandemic began to 527, 538..
The latest seven-day infection rate across Wales, based on the cases for every 100,000 people (for the seven days up to December 3) now stands at 498.9 – a rise from the 493 reported on Tuesday.
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The local authority with the highest infection rate in Wales remains Gwynedd with 859.8 cases per 100,000 population over seven days followed by Anglesey with 819.5 and Bridgend with 615.4.
The test positivity rate across Wales is at 16.8%, which is unchanged from Tuesday.
The areas of the country recording the highest numbers of new Covid cases in the latest 24-hour period are Cardiff with 235, Flintshire with 165, Swansea with 158, Wrexham with 144, Rhondda Cynon Taf with 129, Gwynedd with 109, Powys with 106, Neath Port Talbot with 101 and Bridgend with 100.
Meanwhile, Newport had 99 cases, Caerphilly with 97, Denbighshire with 88, Pembrokeshire with 86, Conwy with 85, and Vale of Glamorgan with 80.
The counties with the lowest cases were Anglesey with 72, Monmouthshire with 68, Carmarthenshire with 61, Blaenau Gwent with 59, Torfaen with 51, Merthyr Tydfil with 40, and Ceredigion with 38.
As of December 7, there were 502 people in general and acute hospital beds with coronavirus (confirmed, suspected, and recovering), a fall on the 542 reported on December 6.
There were 35 people in a ventilated intensive care bed with Covid-19 on December 7, down from 37.
The latest data showed that 2,473,583 people had received one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 2,274,197 had been given both doses.
To date, 977,675 people have received their Covid booster vaccine according to PHW, including more than three-quarters of care home residents (82.3%) and over 80s (81%), over two-thirds of healthcare workers (74%) and over half of all care home workers (63.7%).
Uptake of the first vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
- Severely immunosuppressed: 99.2%
- Care home residents: 98.3%
- Care home workers: 94.6%
- 80 years and older: 96.2%
- Healthcare workers: 97.3%
- Social care workers: 45,859
- 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: 90.1%
- 40-49 years: 85.4%
- 30-39 years: 79.1%
- 18-29 years: 79.2%
- 16-17 years: 78.8%
- 12-15 years: 55.2%
Uptake of the second vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
Severely immunosuppressed: 85.1%
- Care home residents: 97.2%
- Care home workers: 92.2%
- 80 years and older: 95.5%
- Healthcare workers: 95.9%
- Social care workers: 45,376
- 75-79 years: 96.5%
- 70-74 years: 95.9%
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 94.4%
- 65-69 years: 94.4%
- Clinical risk groups 12-64 years: 86.9%
- 60-64 years: 92.6%
- 55-59 years: 90.6%
- 50-54 years: 88.5%
- 40-49 years: 82.8%
- 30-39 years: 74.7%
- 18-29 years: 72%
- 16-17 years: 41.6%
- 12-15 years: 2%
Uptake of booster vaccines (according to PHW)
- Care home residents: 83.7%
- Care home workers: 65%
- 80 years and older: 85.4%
- Healthcare workers: 85.1%
- Social care workers: 33,474
- 75-79 years: 85.5%
- 70-74 years: 85.3%
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 47.8%
- 65-69 years: 79.2%
- Clinical risk groups 12-64 years: 40.2%
- 60-64 years: 54.9%
- 55-59 years: 37.5%
- 50-54 years: 35%
- 40-49 years: 18.8%
- 30-39 years: 11.8%
- 18-29 years: 7.5%
- 16-17 years: 2.4%
Infection rate for every 100,000 people in each area for the seven days up to December 3:
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Blaenau Gwent: 515.3 (up from 511)
Newport: 485.5 (up from 505.6)
Caerphilly: 481.6 (up from 468.3)
Torfaen: 459.8 (down from 476.8)
Monmouthshire: 477.6 (476.8)
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Conwy: 380.5 (up from 376.3)
Anglesey: 819.5 (up from 748.1)
Gwynedd: 859.8 (down from 849.4)
Denbighshire: 449.3 (unchanged)
Flintshire: 515.7 (up from 529.8)
Wrexham: 578.1 (up from 559.7)
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Cardiff: 487.3 (down from 493)
Vale of Glamorgan: 612.3 (up from 591.4)
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Merthyr Tydfil: 412.8 (unchanged)
Rhondda Cynon Taf: 403.7 (up from 402)
Bridgend: 615.4 (up from 597.1)
Hywel Dda University Health Board
Carmarthenshire: 414.8 (up from 412.1)
Pembrokeshire: 596.1 (down from 600.9)
Ceredigion: 268.2 (up from 251.7)
Powys Teaching Health Board
Powys: 443.2 (down from 448.5)
Swansea Bay University Health Board
Neath Port Talbot: 386.6 (down from 411.8)
Swansea: 436.4 (up from 374.7)
Wales total: 498.9 (up from 493.3)
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