PENARTH saw the highest rise in cases in the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board region and the second highest figure in Wales in recent days. In the seven days up to February 5 Penarth recorded 36 new cases – up from 12 on the previous week and by far the highest number in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan. If not for 42 cases in Holywell and Bagillt in the north of the country, Penarth would have recorded the highest number of Covid cases in Wales for that week. It came as Vale police officers pleaded with people not to travel to the seafront for the third week in succession.