Positive tests rise for 12 days in a row, but this is not reflected in critical care numbers.
She said: "We've been pretty quiet in terms of Covid in intensive care for the last little while, but I have noticed in my population of colleagues, we've got lots of people off sick.The Covid case rate - which measures the number of new infections per 100,000 people over seven days - has increased for each of the past 12 days, with this figure at 290.7 on Thursday.
There were twice as many cases involving the sub-variant of Omicron sequenced in the last week compared to the main Omicron variant .There has been a small increase in the number of people with Covid being admitted to hospital - up to an average of 26 per day from 21 over the past week, and about 80% of hospital patients with Covid were being treated for something else.
One of which is Dr Jones' Aneurin Bevan health board, which has had no critical care patients for eight days, while the Swansea Bay and Cwm Taf Morgannwg health boards have not had any for 13 days.The Welsh government isshe thought masks and free testing should remain in place.
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