Wales has recorded no new coronavirus deaths according to latest figures published by Public Health Wales.
New data released on Tuesday, February 15, and covering a 24-hour period shows 923 new positive cases, bringing the total to 803,360.
The overall number of people who have died within 28 days of testing positive in Wales remains at 6,923.
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The latest infection rate based on PCR tests, for the seven days up to February 10, now stands at 326.8 cases for every 100,000 people – a reduction from the 339.1 cases recorded on Monday.
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 10 was Carmarthenshire with 452.9 followed by Ceredigion with 449.8 and Cardiff with 390.8.
Cardiff recorded the most positive cases over the latest 24-hour period with 141 followed Carmarthenshire with 77, Swansea with 73, Rhondda Cynon Taf with 58, Newport with 46, Conwy with 45 and Flintshire with 44.
Meanwhile, Caerphilly had 40 new cases, Wrexham and Vale of Glamorgan both had 38, Gwynedd had 36, Bridgend had 30, Monmouthshire had 29 and Powys had 28.
The areas with the lowest new cases reported were Neath Port Talbot with 26, Denbighshire with 25, Blaenau Gwent with 21, Torfaen with 19, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire both with 17, Anglesey with 16 and Merthyr Tydfil with 12.
In the seven days to February 10 a total of 28.6% of PCR tests across Wales gave a positive result, a fall on the 29% reported on Monday. The highest positivity rates were in Cardiff (32.2%), Swansea (31.9%), and Ceredigion (31.7%).
As of February 14 There were 14 patients in ventilated intensive care beds with confirmed Covid-19. This was one less than reported on February 9 and way down on the Omicron wave peak of 39 on January 5.
New figures are also being published showing the number of people being specifically treated for Covid, rather than testing positive for the virus but being in hospital for other reasons. As of February 11, out of 341 patients in acute hospitals with Covid there were only 94 people actively being treated for Covid in Wales.
A total of 2,516,883 people have received one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 2,378,179 have been given two doses. Meanwhile 1,865,020 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 10:
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Blaenau Gwent: 329.2 (down from 342.1)
Newport: 312.3 (down from 340.7)
Caerphilly: 268.4 (down from 294.4)
Torfaen: 357.6 (down from 382.1)
Monmouthshire: 286.5 (down from 303.4)
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Conwy: 290.9 (down from 301.2)
Anglesey: 287 (down from 301.2)
Gwynedd: 293.8 (down from 318.7)
Denbighshire: 289.5 (down from 307.2)
Flintshire: 316.5 (down from 331.8)
Wrexham: 320 (down from 342)
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Cardiff: 390.8 (down from 393.8)
Vale of Glamorgan: 321.1 (down from 324.9)
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Merthyr Tydfil: 319.9 (up from 315)
Rhondda Cynon Taf: 260.7 (up from 259.1)
Bridgend: 242.8 (down from 244.8)
Hywel Dda University Health Board
Carmarthenshire: 452.9 (down from 486.8)
Pembrokeshire: 324.3 (down from 329.8)
Ceredigion: 449.8 (up from 367.3)
Powys Teaching Health Board
Powys: 288.4 (down from 305.8)
Swansea Bay University Health Board
Neath Port Talbot: 308.4 (down from 319.6)
Swansea: 347 (down from 369.2)
Wales total: 326.8 (down from 339.1)
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 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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