MORE than 3,000 new Covid-19 cases have been confirmed in Wales.

Public Health Wales figures released on Friday (October 15) report that 3,130 new cases were recorded in the latest 24-hour period.

Of the new cases reported today, 475 were in North Wales.

Gwynedd had the most new cases of the virus - 98.

The new cases of covid in North Wales can be broken down to:

  • Gwynedd 98
  • Denbighshire 93
  • Flintshire 79
  • Anglesey 76
  • Wrexham 68
  • Conwy 61

Sadly, a further 15 people have died in Wales in the latest 24-hour period having tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 28 days. 6,005 people in Wales have died after a positive test since the start of the pandemic.

2,233,733 people have now had two doses of a coronavirus vaccine.

The seven-day rolling infection rate in Wales as a whole is now 531.7 cases per 100,000 people. In North Wales, only the rate in Denbighshire is above the national average.

The seven-day rolling infection rate in North Wales can be broken down to:

  • Denbighshire 545.5/100k
  • Anglesey 459.7
  • Flintshire 430.5
  • Conwy 420.6
  • Gwynedd 415.1
  • Wrexham 399.4