Wales is the only nation in the UK recording a fall in its Covid-19 infection rate, it has been revealed. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) infection survey, which is based on a random sample, has revealed that the estimated number of people testing positive for the virus for the week ending October 17 was 86,100, which equates to 2.83% of the population or around one in 35 people.
That's down on the previous week where 117,600 (3.87%), or around one in 35 of Wales' population, was thought to have Covid. Meanwhile the ONS said the latest rise in infections in England appears to be levelling off, but virus numbers are continuing to increase in Scotland and Northern Ireland
The total number of people in private households in the UK testing positive for coronavirus stood at 2.05 million in the week to October 17, broadly unchanged on 2.01 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.
