THERE were 64 new cases of coronavirus reported in Wales today, health chiefs have said.

This takes the total number of cases in Wales to 211,042 since the start of the pandemic.

Of the new cases recorded on Wednesday, just 10 were in the Betsi Cadwalader Health Board area here in North Wales.

In Wrexham and Flintshire there were five new cases, with no new cases reported in Denbighshire.

North Wales cases can be broken down to:

  • Anglesey - 2
  • Conwy - 0
  • Denbighshire - 0
  • Flintshire - 2
  • Gwynedd - 3
  • Wrexham - 3

The seven-day infection rate for Wales as a whole continues to fall, standing at 15.2 per 100,000 members of the population on Wednesday.

In Wrexham the rate is 14.7 per 100k, in Flintshire it is 18.6/100k, and the rate in Denbighshire is 8.4/100k.

The highest rate in North Wales is in Gwynedd where it is 25.7/100k.

In Conwy, the rate is 7.7/100k and in Anglesey it is 11.4/100k.

There were no additional covid-related deaths recorded in Wales.

Public Health Wales daily statement:

Dr Christopher Williams, Incident Director for the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak response at Public Health Wales, said: “Welsh Government has announced that six people (not including children under 11 years old or carers) be able to meet outdoors from Saturday 24 April, without a restriction on the number of households. The current rule states that six people from two households can meet outdoors.

“People should observe social distancing when meeting with others from outside their household or support bubble.

“The rules on meeting other people indoors remain unchanged.“In addition, Welsh Government confirmed that outdoor hospitality can resume on Monday 26 April.

“Public Health Wales recently published its latest surveillance report analysing COVID-19 vaccine uptake by sex, socioeconomic deprivation and ethnic group.

“According to the findings, inequality gaps in vaccine uptake of at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine between ethnic and socioeconomic groups in older adults in Wales have narrowed since March but, despite this, significant inequalities still remain.

“On Friday the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advised that pregnant women should be offered the COVID-19 vaccine at the same time as the rest of the population, based on their age and clinical risk group. JCVI advice is followed in Wales.

“As there is more experience of the use of the Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna vaccines in pregnancy those vaccines are therefore the preferred vaccines to offer to pregnant women."