10-21-2021, 09:43 AM
Covid cases and hospital numbers rise in Wales
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The number of people in hospital with confirmed Covid in Wales is at its highest level in nearly a month.
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It comes as bed occupancy - the proportion of beds with patients in them compared to beds available - hit 90%, a high point during the pandemic.
Meanwhile, health board representatives warned we should expect the worst NHS Wales performance figures on Thursday.
The Welsh NHS Confederation said there were "huge levels of demand across the whole the system".
Director Darren Hughes said activity and performance figures were likely to be the worst on record due to the "enormous pressures the NHS and care sector are under, from all angles".
Hospital figures rising
Hospital figures have become the key indicator in looking at the impact of Covid.
The number of patients with confirmed Covid has risen to a daily average of 498, 15% up on the week before, with Cardiff and Vale and Cwm Taf Morgannwg health boards having the most patients.
There was a slight daily drop on Tuesday but the average number of patients with confirmed Covid has risen to 498, according to Digital Health and Care Wales.
This is still about a third of what we saw at this point in the second wave.
Cardiff and Vale and Cwm Taf Morgannwg's hospitals have each got more than 100 of these patients.
Covid cases are continuing to rise
The Wales case rate has risen for a fourth successive day, to 617 cases per 100,000 people - up from 524.1 a week ago.
The highest level was 652 on 23 September, the last peak in the third wave. During the second wave, the case rate peaked in mid-December on 635.9 - but the age profile was very different and before the vaccination programme had reached many older and vulnerable people.
The daily average is 2,779 positive tests a day - up from 2,360 a week ago, an 18% rise.
The number of people in hospital with confirmed Covid in Wales is at its highest level in nearly a month.
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It comes as bed occupancy - the proportion of beds with patients in them compared to beds available - hit 90%, a high point during the pandemic.
Meanwhile, health board representatives warned we should expect the worst NHS Wales performance figures on Thursday.
The Welsh NHS Confederation said there were "huge levels of demand across the whole the system".
Director Darren Hughes said activity and performance figures were likely to be the worst on record due to the "enormous pressures the NHS and care sector are under, from all angles".
Hospital figures rising
Hospital figures have become the key indicator in looking at the impact of Covid.
The number of patients with confirmed Covid has risen to a daily average of 498, 15% up on the week before, with Cardiff and Vale and Cwm Taf Morgannwg health boards having the most patients.
There was a slight daily drop on Tuesday but the average number of patients with confirmed Covid has risen to 498, according to Digital Health and Care Wales.
This is still about a third of what we saw at this point in the second wave.
Cardiff and Vale and Cwm Taf Morgannwg's hospitals have each got more than 100 of these patients.
Covid cases are continuing to rise
The Wales case rate has risen for a fourth successive day, to 617 cases per 100,000 people - up from 524.1 a week ago.
The highest level was 652 on 23 September, the last peak in the third wave. During the second wave, the case rate peaked in mid-December on 635.9 - but the age profile was very different and before the vaccination programme had reached many older and vulnerable people.
The daily average is 2,779 positive tests a day - up from 2,360 a week ago, an 18% rise.
