UK Covid live: Wales tightens measures for shops and workplaces; PM’s plans for school testing in disarray
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The Welsh first minister, Mark Drakeford, has said there are signs that coronavirus cases are stabilising or reducing across much of Wales.
Drakeford said the all-Wales coronavirus rate has dropped below 400 per 100,000 people for the first time in “many weeks”.
These signs of improvements show all the hard work and sacrifice is really paying off. We have to continue making this effort.
There have been a further 1,808 cases of coronavirus in Wales, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 177,864. Public Health Wales reported another 54 deaths, taking the total in Wales since the start of the pandemic to 4,171.
The rapid COVID-19 surveillance dashboard has been updated
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