Another person has died with coronavirus in Wales according to the latest figures published by Public Health Wales.
New data released on Sunday, February 13, and covering a 24-hour period shows 1,495 new positive cases, bringing the total to 800,316.
The overall number of people who have died within 28 days of testing positive in Wales now stands at 6,913.
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The latest infection rate based on PCR tests, for the seven days up to February 7, now stands at 379.0 cases for every 100,000 people – a reduction from the 400.3 cases recorded on Friday, which was a drop on the 412.9 recorded on Thursday.
The infection rate based on PCR tests is only a guide to the spread of Covid in Wales as it does not include lateral flow test results, which are reported weekly in Wales. People with no symptoms who test positive on an LFT no longer need a confirmatory PCR test.
The latest data on lateral flow tests, published on Thursday for the week to February 6, show there have been a further 18,690 positive test results reported. That's down from 23,066 the previous week. Positivity also decreased from 11.87% to 10.24%. The highest incidence rate was in the Hywel Dda University Health Board area with 680.2 positive tests for every 100,000 people.
The area of Wales with the highest infection rate for the seven days up to February 7 was Carmarthenshire with 563.1 followed by Cardiff with 445.6 and Swansea with 418.2.
Cardiff recorded the most positive cases over the latest 24-hour period with 235 followed Swansea with 115, Carmarthenshire with 107, Rhondda Cynon Taf with 91, Flintshire with 84, Vale of Glamorgan with 77, Wrexham with 64, and Conwy with 61. Meanwhile Neath Port Talbot recorded 58 new cases, Pembrokeshire 57, Torfaen 51, Newport and Denbighshire 50 each, Ceredigion and Bridgend 49 each, Caerphilly 48, and Gwynedd 44.
The areas with the lowest new cases reported were Powys with 39, Monmouthshire with 34, Blaenau Gwent with 29, Anglesey 25, and Merthyr Tydfil with 20.
In the seven days to February 7 a total of 30.4% of PCR tests across Wales gave a positive result, a fall on the 31.2% reported on Friday. The highest positivity rates were in Cardiff (34.6%), Swansea (34.4%), and Carmarthenshire (34.3%).
As of February 10 there were 1,080 people in general and acute hospital beds with coronavirus (confirmed, suspected, and recovering), a fall on the 1,101 on February 9.
There were 16 people in ventilated intensive care beds with confirmed Covid-19 on February 10. This was the same amount as reported on February 9 but still way down on the Omicron wave peak of 39 on January 5. Swansea Bay UHB now has no Covid patients in an invasive ventilated bed.
A total of 2,515,537 people have received one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 2,374,949 have been given two doses. Meanwhile 1,859,032 people have been given their booster jabs in Wales.
Infection rate for every 100,000 people in each area for the seven days up to February 7:
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Blaenau Gwent: 363.6 (down from 425.1)
Newport: 396.3 (down from 455.8)
Caerphilly: 352.9 (down from 385.5)
Torfaen: 394.8 (down from 433.2)
Monmouthshire: 316.1 (down from 326.7)
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Conwy: 334.5 (down from 363.5)
Anglesey: 338.4 (down from 339.8)
Gwynedd: 331.6 (up from 311.5)
Denbighshire: 330.2 (down from 333.3)
Flintshire: 356.8 (down from 397.8)
Wrexham: 415.6 (down from 422.2)
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Cardiff: 445.6 (down from 478.9)
Vale of Glamorgan: 392.3 (down from 434.2)
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Merthyr Tydfil: 351.4 (down from 394.5)
Rhondda Cynon Taf: 287.2 (down from 298.8)
Bridgend: 265.2 (down from 284.3)
Hywel Dda University Health Board
Carmarthenshire: 563.1 (unchanged)
Pembrokeshire: 360.8 (unchanged)
Ceredigion: 323.3 (up from 266.9)
Powys Teaching Health Board
Powys: 337.5 (down from 357.2)
Swansea Bay University Health Board
Neath Port Talbot: 363.5 (down from 376.8)
Swansea: 418.2 (down from 449)
Wales total: 379.0 (down from 400.3)
The headlines from the latest ONS infection survey published at 2pm on Wednesday, February 9, suggest the percentage of people testing positive for Covid in Wales has decreased during the week ending February 5.
It estimates 121,200 people in Wales, equivalent to one in 25, had Covid in the week ending February 5. In England it’s one in 19 people. In Scotland one in 25 people had Covid in the same week, the same as Wales, while in Northern Ireland it’s around one in 13.
On Friday the Welsh Government will start to ease Covid pass and mask rules in Wales. From Friday, February 18, the legal requirement to show a Covid pass to enter certain venues and events will be lifted and from Monday, February 28, face coverings will no longer need to be worn in all indoor public places. Schools will be able to set their own rules from the same date. You can read the full list of changes here.
Economy minister Vaughan Gething said in a press briefing on Friday: "The improving public health situation in Wales, together with the ongoing success of our vaccination programme, means we can now begin to gradually and carefully relax some of the protections we have in place at alert level zero.
"We will not be removing all the protective measures at once. While we can be confident that cases of coronavirus are falling that doesn’t mean it’s gone away."
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