Thread by @statsjamie

🚨🚨 Covid19 cases in Wales are up 117% week on week - this increase is the highest weekly increase seen by any of the home nations since the summer.

➡️ Cases have less relevance with #Omicron so much more transmissible - patients in intensive care unchanged and deaths down

🚨🚨 311 confirmed #COVID19 patients in general beds in Wales - up 32% on a week ago but 79% lower than last year

◼️ No change in no of patients in ventilated beds the past week - 72% lower than last year

https://twitter.com/statsjamie/status/1476541695273709574?s=20

We continue to see a fall in the number of deaths linked to #Covid19 in Wales although there is a time lag with cases.

Deaths are currently 94% lower than this time last year.

Both the case rate per 100k people and positivity rate (% of tests positive) are the highest they have been recorded.

It's likely it was higher at the start in March 2020 but there was very little testing happening.

Rates are highest in the South Wales areas of Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil

Rates lowest in Powys, Carmarthenshire and Monmouthshire but even these rates are high compared to the past.

#Wales #COVID19 #Vaccine Tracker as at 29 December

1️⃣ 2,489,359 first doses given out - 90.5% of 12 and over

2️⃣ 2,301,312 second doses given out - 83.6% of 12 and over

3️⃣ 1,645,650 booster / third doses given out - 59.8% of 12 and over