AS levels of the virus begin to drop across the country, how are things looking in Wrexham and Flintshire? Public Health Wales can show exactly how our different communities compare with their mapping feature that was first added to the daily update provided by health officials in response to COVID-19 in October 2020. It presents data broken down beyond the standard local authority areas that people could previously access and now shows how individual communities compare. The data is gathered using Office of National Statistics figures of middle layer super output areas (MSOAs) and present the rolling number of cases in either a seven-day or 21-day window.
weekly data for Wrexham as a whole compared to other councils in North Wales
Table 2 – the summary of daily data for the 18 ‘MSOA’ statistical sub-areas of Wrexham used by Public Health Wales
The County Borough as a Whole (Table 1) (
NB – the data for week ending 10
th January are tentative and will not be finalised until next week).
Wrexham remains worst in Wales for the rate per 100,000 population (
867.9 today) and positivity (
28.8% today), but this is similar to that reported on Friday (851.7 and 29.3%) and slightly better than a few days ago. We can only hope that the virus has peaked, be redouble our efforts to ensure that it does not rise again. There have never been more tests undertaken in North Wales than in the week ending 10