Wales has the lowest Covid infection rate of any UK nation, but the picture remains mixed across the rest of the UK. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) infection survey, which is based on a random sample, has revealed that the estimated number of people in Wales testing positive for the virus for the week ending October 24 was 77,500, which equates to 2.55% of the population, or around one in 40 people.
That's down on the previous week where 86,100 (2.83%), or around one in 35 of Wales' population, was thought to have Covid. Meanwhile the ONS said that England had seen a decrease for the first time since mid-September, while Northern Ireland had seen an increase. The trend in Scotland remained "uncertain".
The total number of people in private households in the UK testing positive for coronavirus stood at 1.87 million in the week to October 24, down on the 2.05 million in the previous week. This is some way below the peak of nearly four million reached in early July, during the wave caused by the Omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants of the virus.
