Eight more people have died with coronavirus in Wales according to latest figures from Public Health Wales.
The data published on Wednesday, October 6 also revealed there were 2,007 new positive cases, bringing the total number since the pandemic began to 368,629.
The latest seven-day infection rate across Wales based on the cases for every 100,000 people (seven days up to October 1) has begun to fall and now stands at 507.3 - a significant drop on the 530.5 reported on Tuesday.
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The local authority with the highest infection rate in Wales is now Torfaen with 688.6 cases per 100,000 population over seven days, followed by Denbighshire with 632.2 and Vale of Glamorgan with 630.3.
Test positivity rates across Wales now stands at 14.5%, with Denbighshire having the greatest proportion of tests coming back positive at 17.1%. Test positivity has been slowly falling for the last month after peaking at 22% across Wales in the first week of September.
The areas of the country recording the highest numbers of Covid cases in the latest 24-hour period were Cardiff with 321, Swansea with 229, Carmarthenshire with 160, RCT with 139, Caerphilly with 128 and Vale of Glamorgan with 114.
Meanwhile Neath Port Talbot had 96 new cases, Torfaen had 92, Pembrokeshire had 86, Powys had 84, Newport had 80, Flintshire had 71, Bridgend had 69, Conwy had 47, Denbighshire had 43, Monmouthshire had 42 and Wrexham had 40.
The local authorities with the lowest numbers of cases are Anglesey with 35, Ceredigion with 28, Gwynedd with 27, Blaenau Gwent with 16 and Merthyr Tydfil with 15.
As of October 5 there were 565 people in general and acute hospital beds with coronavirus (confirmed, suspected, and recovering) – down on the 5 84 reported in the figures as of October 4.
Betsi Cadwaladr UHB had the most Covid patients in general and acute hospital beds on October 5 with 134, followed by Aneurin Bevan UHB with 130, Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB with 117, Cardiff and Vale UHB with 84, Swansea Bay UHB with 58 and Hywel Dda UHB with 42.
As of October 5 there were 47 people in invasive ventilated beds in Wales with coronavirus. Cwm Taf Morgannwg UHB had the most with 11, Hywel Dda UHB had 10, Swansea Bay UHB had eight, Cardiff and Vale UHB had seven, Betsi Cadwaladr UHB had six, and Aneurin Bevan UHB had five
On Wednesday Public Health Wales figures showed that 2,385,622 people have had one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 2,226,708 have had both doses.
The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine will start to be administered to 12 to 15-year-olds this week 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):
- Care home residents: 98.1%
- Care home workers: 94.2%
- 80 years and older: 96.2%
- Healthcare workers: 97%
- Social care workers: 45,114 (no percentage available)
- 75-79 years: 97%
- 70-74 years: 96.3%
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 95%
- 65-69 years: 95.1%
- Clinical risk groups 16-64 years: 90.6%
- 60-64 years: 93.5%
- 55-59 years: 91.8%
- 50-54 years: 90%
- 40-49 years: 85.1%
- 30-39 years: 78.3%
- 18-29 years: 77.6%
- 16-17 years: 71.9%
Uptake of the second vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
- Care home residents: 96.2%
- Care home workers: 91.3%
- 80 years and older: 95.2%
- Healthcare workers: 95.3%
- Social care workers: 44,522 (no percentage available)
- 75-79 years: 96.2%
- 70-74 years: 95.7%
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 93.3%
- 65-69 years: 94.2%
- Clinical risk groups 16-64 years: 87.4%
- 60-64 years: 92.3%
- 55-59 years: 90.3%
- 50-54 years: 88.1%
- 40-49 years: 82%
- 30-39 years: 72.9%
- 18-29 years: 69.6%
- 16-17 years: 16.6%
Infection rate for every 100,000 people in each area for the seven days up to October 1:
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Blaenau Gwent: 433.7 (down from 498.1)
Newport: 482.9 (down from 526.3)
Caerphilly: 594.2 (down from 635.1)
Torfaen: 688.6 (down from 691.8)
Monmouthshire: 326.7 (down from 357.3)
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Conwy: 450.5 (down from 451.4)
Anglesey: 499.7 (down from 506.8)
Gwynedd: 443.2 (down from 465.6)
Denbighshire: 632.2 (up from 630.1)
Flintshire: 429.2 (down from 447.8)
Wrexham: 366.3 (down from 386.9)
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Cardiff: 557.4 (up from 551.1)
Vale of Glamorgan: 630.3 (up from 628.8)
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Merthyr Tydfil: 409.4 (down from 485.7)
Rhondda Cynon Taf: 520.2 (down from 580.3)
Bridgend: 456.3 (down from 462.4)
Hywel Dda University Health Board
Carmarthenshire: 580.6 (down from 594.9)
Pembrokeshire: 512.6 (up from 480.1)
Ceredigion: 323.3 (down from 365.9)
Powys Teaching Health Board
Powys: 319.4 (down from 355.6)
Swansea Bay University Health Board
Neath Port Talbot: 599.4 (down from 662.9)
Swansea: 546.2 (down from 589.1)
Wales total: 507.3 (down from 530.5 )
On Tuesday the Senedd voted to make it mandatory for people to show Covid passes before entering nightclubs and mass events in Wales.
But the legislation was only went through because one Conservative Member of the Senedd, Gareth Davies, did not take part - resulting in 28 voting in favour and 27 against.
The Welsh Conservatives have blamed "technical difficulties" for why the Vale of Clwyd MS could not take part.
The Night Time Industries Association has called for the vote to be held again, but none of the Senedd's party groups have done so.
Under the new law evidence of full vaccination or a negative Covid test within 48 hours will be required when visiting nightclubs or large events.
The plan is for the scheme to come into force from Monday, October 11, at:
- Nightclubs;
- Indoor, non-seated events for more than 500 people, such as concerts or conventions;
- Outdoor non-seated events for more than 4,000 people;
- Any setting or event with more than 10,000 people in attendance.
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