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Posted: Sat 10th Apr 2021 Parents asked “please avoid car-sharing and please don’t hang around at the school gates” in latest detailed council update The latest local update has been published by Wrexham Council, detailing the precise local area figures and a return of the local data tables. If you want to check the figures where you live, visit the Public Health Wales data dashboard and click on the ‘MSOA’ tab, and select Wrexham on the right hand side to get a zoomed in map. In another positive update the data shows only one sub-area (Wrexham West) has over the 51 case per 100k benchmark, with the council adding “None has more than 6 cases in the week; in fact, all but that one have 0 to 3 cases. There are, therefore, no ‘hotspots’.” The number of cases locally in the seven day window is recorded as 44 across Wrexham up to the 4th. ....
The latest local update has been published by Wrexham Council, detailing the precise local area figures. Wrexham Council have said, “People in Wales will no longer be asked to stay at home. Instead, they’ll be asked to ‘stay local.’ As always, common sense will be needed…so please take things slowly, stay local and stick to […] ....
for positivity. Local household transmission remains the principal driver of the disease, rather than international travel or work places (though there are some workplace clusters). Hospital admissions in North Wales due to Covid-19 have fallen by 2/3 in the last three weeks to levels last seen in December. Deaths in North Wales due to Covid-19 have fallen by ½ in the last three weeks to levels last seen in December (i.e. there being a lag between new cases and these data). TABLE 2: Covid-19 in the Sub-Areas of Wrexham (MSOA areas used by PHW in its Tableau)
The situation is improving rapidly throughout Wrexham too, though with some exceptions. ....
TABLE 1: Covid-19 in the County Borough as a whole compared to other Councils in North Wales Comment The figures have fallen rapidly and consistently over the last few weeks. The rate per 100,000 population is now 122, compared to 199 last week, and positivity is 9.5%, compared to 13.3% last week. These are the lowest figures since late last September 2020, just as the second wave of infections began and Wrexham has fallen from worst place in Wales to 2 nd th for positivity. However, continued effort is needed over the next few months to suppress the infection. The small number of ‘South Africa’ variant cases in North Wales has increased by one, which was not travel-related. There are no cases of the much more worrying variants, but it is to be expected that new variants will emerge until transmission of the disease is completely suppressed. ....
Please find attached: Table 1 – the summary of 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 (PHW) in their Tableau The County Borough as a Whole (Table 1) The data show that the virus has definitely peaked, with the rate per 100,000 population ( 438.4) and positivity ( 21.6%) being much lower today than the 660.5 and 26.5% reported last Friday. However, Wrexham remains worst in Wales and it is likely to take 3 weeks before these rates can be halved, when they will still be high. ....