Adults over the age of 18 will have another chance to get vaccinated in Newport this weekend at a drop-in vaccination clinic.
Any adult still waiting for their first dose of the coronavirus jab will be able to drop in to Newport Centre on Saturday, July 3 and will not need to book an appointment beforehand.
It follows similar drop-in vaccination clinics over the weekend in both Newport and Ebbw Vale, where more than 800 people turned up to receive their jabs.
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Aneurin Bevan health board - which covers Newport, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent, Monmouthshire and Torfaen - confirmed that 519 people attended the clinic in Newport on June 26, while a further 287 attended the Ebbw Vale clinic.
The clinic in Newport this Saturday will run between 8:30am and 4:00pm. There will also be another drop-in clinic running in Newbridge leisure centre on Saturday, which will be open between 8:30am and 1:30pm and which also does not require an appointment.
So far, Aneurin Bevan health board has given a total of 429,564 first vaccination doses and 322,176 second doses, bringing the total to 751,740 combined first and second doses.
As of June 14, the uptake of doses by priority group in Gwent is:
- 65 years and older - 96% have had first dose, 95% have had both doses
- Group 6 (at risk) - 90% have had first dose, 83% have had both doses
- Aged 60-64 - 94% have had first dose, 92% have had both doses
- Aged 55-59 - 91% have had first dose, 84% have had both doses
- Aged 50-54 - 92% have had first dose, 89% have had both doses
- Aged 40-49 - 86% have had first dose, 74% have had both doses
- Aged 30-39 - 78% have had first dose, 29% have had both doses
- Aged 18-29 - 75% have had first dose
On Monday, Public Health Wales said it had identified 670 more positive coronavirus cases across the country - up from the previous 416 reported in its previous batch of figures.
The overall infection rate in Wales currently stands at 53.1 cases per 100,000 population based on the seven days between June 17 and June 23 , up from 42.3 cases on Sunday.
Uptake of the first vaccine dose by priority group across Wales (according to Public Health Wales):
- Care home residents: 14,423 (98.1%)
- Care home workers: 35,268 (92.6%)
- 80 years and older: 164,848 (96%)
- Healthcare workers: 136,873 (96%)
- Social care workers: 45,540 (no percentage available)
- 75-79 years: 128,168 (96.8%)
- 70-74 years: 176,019 (96.1%)
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 76,795 (94.4%)
- 65-69 years: 170,929 (94.8%)
- Clinical risk groups 16-64 years: 315,199 (88.9%)
- 60-64 years: 191,130 (93.1%)
- 55-59 years: 212,702 (91.1%)
- 50-54 years: 203,294 (89.1%)
- 40-49 years: 328,358 (83.4%)
- 30-39 years: 314,372 (74%)
- 18-29 years: 338,975 (70.8%)
Uptake of the second vaccine dose by priority group (according to PHW):
- Care home residents: 13,852 (94.2%)
- Care home workers: 33,096 (86.9%)
- 80 years and older: 161,024 (93.8%)
- Healthcare workers: 130,504 (91.5%)
- Social care workers: 44,092 (no percentage available)
- 75-79 years: 125,999 (95.1%)
- 70-74 years: 173,615 (94.8%)
- Clinically extremely vulnerable 16-69 years: 74,071 (91.1%)
- 65-69 years: 166,994 (92.6%)
- Clinical risk groups 16-64 years: 285,142 (80.5%)
- 60-64 years: 184,527 (89.8%)
- 55-59 years: 201,710 (86.4%)
- 50-54 years: 184,097 (80.7%)
- 40-49 years: 217,514 (55.2%)
- 30-39 years: 119,550 (28.1%)
- 18-29 years: 84,872 (17.7%)
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."
