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Wales Online
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Cathy Owen

Covid briefing: Cases in Wales plummet and shoppers in England still asked to wear mask despite law change

Here are the morning headlines for Thursday, January 27, as new official figures show that the number of people with Covid-19 in Wales has fallen rapidly.

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics shows that has cases have fallen dramatically since January 6.

Infection rates are now dropping as fast as they rose over Christmas and while Wales' infection rate started levelling off after January 1, in England, rates continued to climb with nearly 6% of the population still testing positive for Covid-19 for the two-week period ending January 15.

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