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Three more people have died from coronavirus in Wales and more than 1,600 new cases have been identified.
Public Health Wales (PHW), in its daily update on Monday, November 2, confirmed that 1,646 more people have been diagnosed with Covid-19 after a laboratory test.
It’s a significant increase from Sunday when 819 were confirmed. However, PHW said “data transfer issues” between them and the NWIS may have led to some results not being included in yesterday’s tally.
PHW also added that three more people have lost their lives to the virus in Wales, bringing the death toll to 1,891.
Merthyr Tydfil it remains, in some way, the local authority with the highest number of cases per 100,000 in an average of seven days in 689.6, an increase of 634.9 on Sunday.
Rhondda Cynon Taf had the second highest incidence rate with 506.5 cases per 100,000, down from 522.2 on Sunday, while Blaenau gwent was third with 496.7, arise from 476.7 the day before.
Welsh as a whole now averages 258.5 houses per 100,000 people, a welcome decrease of 267.5 on Sunday.
The numbers look at a rolling seven-day average between October 24 and October 30. However, Public Health Wales has said that due to a delay in receiving data, the cases sampled over the past few days will not be fully reflected in today’s data, so the most recent incidence is likely to be underestimated.
Here are the key details for Monday:
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Deaths reported today: 3 (compared to 16 on Sunday)
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Cases reported today: 1,646 (vs. 819 on Sunday)
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Number of tests performed: 13,843 (vs 7,280 on Sunday)
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Total laboratory confirmed coronavirus deaths in Wales: 1,891
Cardiff reported the most positive cases in the last 24 hours with 252, followed by Rhondda Cynon Taf with 201, Swansea with 182, Caerphilly with 145 and Wrexham and Neath Port Talbot with 102.
Other local authorities who reported large numbers of cases were Merthyr Tydfil with 97, Bridgend with 95, Blaenau Gwent with 66, Newport with 60, Carmarthenshire with 49 and Torfaen with 35.
Meanwhile, Vale of Glamorgan was 31, Monmouthshire and Flintshire had 29, Powys had 25, Conwy and Denbighshire had 19, Pembrokeshire had 17, Anglesey and Ceredigion had 10, and Gwynedd had nine.
Cases per 100,000 for seven consecutive days
Aneurin Bevan University Board of Health
Blaenau Gwent: 496.7 (top)
Caerphilly: 339.1 (top)
Torfaen: 260.7 (bottom)
Newport: 177.8 (bottom)
Monmouthshire: 161.8 (bottom)
Betsi Cadwaldr University Board of Health
Wrexham: 289.8 (up)
Flintshire: 192.8 (top)
Anglesey: 109.9 (bottom)
Conwy: 108.4 (unchanged)
Denbighshire: 125.4 (top)
Gwynedd: 61 (bottom)
Cardiff and Vale University Board of Health
Cardiff: 309.9 (bottom)
Vale of Glamorgan: 130.3 (top)
Cwm Taf Glamorgan University Board of Health
Merthyr Tydfil: 689.6 (top)
Rhondda Cynon Taf: 506.5 (bottom)
Bridgend: 276.8 (bottom)
Hywel Dda University Board of Health
Carmarthenshire: 159.5 (bottom)
Ceredigion: 30.3 (bottom)
Pembrokeshire: 53.3 (top)
Powys Teaching Health Council
Powys: 120.8 (up)
Swansea Bay University Board of Health
Swansea: 381.0 (bottom)
Neath Port Talbot: 357.3 (bottom)
Wales Total – 258.5 (Down)
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Wales has now been on their 17-day fire lockdown for over a week.
The rules require people to stay home whenever possible, nonessential retail has been closed, and high schools will close for those in the ninth grade and up after midterm.
- Welsh residents are asked to stay home until Monday 9 November
- All non-essential retail, leisure, hotel and tourism businesses will close, as was the case during the close of March.
- Community centers, libraries and recycling centers will also close and places of worship will be closed except for funerals or wedding ceremonies.
- Elementary and special schools will reopen normally after midterm, but high schools will only reopen to students in years seven and eight during the second week of the fire outage.
- Indoor or outdoor gatherings with people from other households will not be allowed, with the only exceptions of adults living alone and single parents who may join another household for support.
However, Prime Minister Mark Drakeford confirmed on Monday that travel restrictions will be lifted after the firewall ends on November 9 and pubs, cafes and restaurants will reopen.
Meanwhile, the people of two households will be able to bubble again. The new rules will last for two weeks, after which they will be reviewed to see if further changes can be made.
He said: “We have to do the minimum, not the maximum, that the rules allow.
“Our true strength lies in the decisions we make and the actions we take together.
“When we came out of the lockdown in the spring, we took a cautious approach, loosening restrictions gradually to make sure we didn’t lose all the gains we had worked so hard for.
“We will take that approach again: During the first two weeks after the firewall ends, national measures will be designed to maximize the impact of the work we have all been doing to control the spread of the virus.
“We will review the situation within fifteen days to see if we can make further changes.”
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