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
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