Coronavirus infection rates have now reached their highest levels on record in Wales, new data from the Office for National Statistics has revealed. Their latest weekly bulletin, published on April 1, showed that an estimated 212,000 people had the virus in Wales in the week ending March 26.
That equates to 6.97% of the population or around one in 14 people. This tops the previous record of 6.35%, which was recorded the week before, and the January 2022 peak of 5.56% when Omicron first swept the nation.
However infection rates are thought to be even higher in some other parts of the UK. In England the ONS estimates that 4,122,700 people had Covid-19 in the week ending March 26, which equates to 7.56% of the population or around one in 13 people. In Scotland as many as one in 12 people are thought to have the virus over the same period while in Northern Ireland it's one in 15.
