Wales has seen another encouraging fall in its Covid infection rate but another part of the UK has recorded a rise. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) infection survey for the week ending September 5 shows the estimated number of people testing positive for Covid was 28,200, equating to 0.93% of the population or around one in 110 people.
That is a fall on the 31,500 (1.04%%), or around one in 95 people, recorded in Wales for the week ending August 28. The rate of positive cases appears to be highest in the region covering Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan although differences between the regions are described as "small". The region covering Bridgend, Rhondda Cynon Taf, and Merthyr Tydfil has lower rates of positivity.
Across the UK as a whole Covid-19 infections are falling but not all parts of the country are showing a clear downward trend. The ONS said a total of 881,200 people in private households in the UK are estimated to have had coronavirus in the seven days to September 5. This is a drop of 7% from 944,700 in the previous week and is the lowest total since the seven days to September 25, 2021.
