Nine things you need to know about Covid as Wales pledges to offer booster to all adults by the end January

Published date07 December 2021
Publication titleWalesOnline (Wales)
NHS Wales has already started to ramp up the booster programme and is currently administering more than 19,000 vaccinations a day. Over the coming weeks, the aim is to give more than 200,000 vaccines a week

The Welsh Government says health boards will do this by providing more vaccination centres in easy-to-access locations, including walk-in and drive-through clinics with longer opening hours.

They have asked for the military to help while GPs and community pharmacies will continue to deliver the vaccine and local government, fire services and students will provide other support to clinics.

Wednesday marks the one year anniversary of the first Covid-19 vaccination was administered in Wales.

It is a year today since Margaret Keenan became the first person in the world to receive a Covid-19 jab as part of a mass vaccination programme, but around one in 10 eligible people in the UK -6.4 million -remain unvaccinated.

Across the four UK nations, Scotland has the lowest proportion of eligible people who are still unvaccinated 9%, followed by Wales 10%, England 11% and Northern Ireland 14%.

The latest figures for Wales show that 2,472,737 people had received one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 2,272,339 had been given both doses.

To date, 940,915 people have received their Covid booster vaccine according to PHW, including more than three-quarters of care home residents 82.3% and over 80s 81%, over two-thirds of healthcare workers 74% and over half of all care home workers 63.7%.

Health Minister Eluned Morgan is set to take the latest Welsh Government from 12.15pm and is expected to say: "Please wait until you are invited for your booster and prioritise your appointment over everything else to support the hard-working staff and volunteers at our vaccination centres, who will be spending a second festive period helping to keep Wales safe.

“With high levels of the Delta variant in the community and the emergence of the Omicron variant, you can continue to disrupt the transmission of the virus by wearing a face covering in indoor public places, getting tested, self-isolating when positive and getting vaccinated.”

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Latest infection rate in Wales

A further six people have died with coronavirus in Wales according to the latest figures from Public Health Wales.

New data published which covers the 48-hour period up to 9am on December 5 shows the total number of deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid test in Wales now stands at 6,439.

There were also 4,405 new positive cases recorded in the latest update bringing the total number since the pandemic began to 523,118.

The latest seven-day infection rate across Wales, based on the cases for every 100,000 people for the seven days up to November 29 now stands at 484.2 – a rise from the 471.9 reported on Sunday.

The local authority with the highest infection rate in Wales remains Gwynedd with 869.5 cases per 100,000 population over seven days followed by Anglesey with 696.7 and Vale of Glamorgan with 595.5. Cases for your area here.

New cases of Omicron in Wales

Three new cases the Omicron Covid variant in Wales have been confirmed.

Public Health Wales shared the news after the cases were identified in the...

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