Covid infections are falling rapidly in Wales, England and Northern Ireland, the latest figures from the ONS show, but have started to rise again in Scotland. It is the sixth week in succession that Covid cases have fallen in Wales.
The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show there were an estimated 1.1 million people in private households with the virus across the UK in the week to May 21, down from 1.3 million in the previous week. In Wales, around 52,900 people were likely to have Covid 19 - down from 80,700, or one in 40, the week before
That is the lowest estimate since the end of November 2021 when virus levels were starting to rise due to the spread of the original Omicron variant. Total infection have now fallen by 78% since the peak of the BA.2 wave in late March when a record 4.9 million people were estimated to have Covid-19.
