Wales has recorded 17 new coronavirus deaths, according to latest figures from Public Health Wales.
The data published on Wednesday, February 9 and covering a 24-hour period, shows 1,388 new positive cases to bring the total to 795,161.
The overall number of people who have died within 28 days of testing positive in Wales stands at 6,889.
Read more: The pockets of Wales where vaccination takeup has been lower than expected
The latest infection rate based on PCR tests, for the seven days up to February 4, now stands at 427.9 cases for every 100,000 people – a reduction from the 443.2 recorded on Tuesday.
The infection rate based on PCR tests is only a guide to the spread of Covid in Wales as it does not include lateral flow test results, which are reported weekly in Wales. People with no symptoms who test positive on an LFT no longer need a confirmatory PCR test.
The highest infection rate in each Welsh local authority for the seven days between January 29 and February 4 was Carmarthenshire with 602.3 cases per 100,000, followed by Newport with 532.1 and Cardiff with 512.9.
Cardiff recorded the most positive cases over the latest 24-hour period with 192, followed by Swansea with 119, Carmarthenshire with 114, RCT with 82, Wrexham with 81, and Caerphilly with 80.
Meanwhile Flintshire had 67 new cases, Vale of Glamorgan had 64, Newport and Neath Port Talbot had 58, Bridgend and Pembrokeshire had 51, Powys and Torfaen both had 46 and Denbighshire had 45.
The areas with the lowest cases were Monmouthshire with 35, Gwynedd with 30, Merthyr Tydfil with 28, Ceredigion and Conwy both with 26, Anglesey with 22, and Blaenau Gwent with 19.
In the seven days to February 4 a total of 32% of PCR tests across Wales gave a positive result, a fall on the 32.5% reported on Tuesday.
The highest positivity rates were in Cardiff (36.9%), Swansea (35.2%) and Carmarthenshire (35.2%).
As of February 8 there were 1,109 people in general and acute hospital beds with coronavirus (confirmed, suspected, and recovering), a rise on the 1,102 on February 7.
There were 15 people in ventilated intensive care beds with confirmed Covid-19 on February 8. This was one more than reported on February 7 but still way down on the Omicron wave peak of 39 on January 5.
Aneurin Bevan UHB and Swansea Bay UHB now have no Covid patients in an invasive ventilated bed.
A total of 2,514,744 people have received one dose of the coronavirus vaccine and 2,373,698 have been given two doses. Meanwhile, 1,853,908 people have been given their booster jabs in Wales. The Welsh Government has confirmed that all eligible adults were offered one by the end of December.
Infection rate for every 100,000 people in each area for the seven days up to February 4:
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Blaenau Gwent: 429.4 (down from 433.7)
Newport : 532.1 (down from 556.6)
Caerphilly : 421.9 (down from 447.9)
Torfaen : 453.5 (down from 481.1)
Monmouthshire : 349.9 (down from 351)
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
Conwy: 376.3 (down from 378)
Anglesey: 375.5 (up from 368.3)
Gwynedd: 335.6 (down from 343.6)
Denbighshire: 363.7 (down from 377.2)
Flintshire: 413.8 (down from 416.4)
Wrexham: 446.5 (down from 467.8)
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Cardiff: 512.9 (down from 529.8)
Vale of Glamorgan: 452.1 (down from 494.1)
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Merthyr Tydfil: 392.9 (down from 404.5)
Rhondda Cynon Taf: 331.6 (down from 353.6)
Bridgend: 325.1 (down from 339.3)
Hywel Dda University Health Board
Carmarthenshire: 602.3 (down from 628.3)
Pembrokeshire: 368 (down from 376.7)
Ceredigion: 253.1 (unchanged)
Powys Teaching Health Board
Powys: 364 (down from 365.5)
Swansea Bay University Health Board
Neath Port Talbot: 395.6 (down from 406.1)
Swansea: 483 (down from 499.2)
Wales total: 427.9 (down from 443.2 )
The latest data on lateral flow tests, published on Thursday for the week to January 30, show there have been a further 23,065 positive test results reported. That's up from 21,127 the previous week. Positivity also increased to 11.87% . The highest incidence rate was in the Hywel Dda University Health Board area with 778.8 positive tests for every 100,000 people. You can read more ab out that here.
The headlines from the latest ONS infection survey published at 2pm on Wednesday, February 2, suggest that the percentage of people testing positive for Covid in Wales has increased again during the week ending January 29.
It estimates 139,100 people in Wales, equivalent to one in 20, had Covid in the week ending January 29, the same percentage as in England. That's a jump of more than 1% compared to the previous week. Meanwhile, Scotland is estimated to have the lowest Covid rates, with one in 30 people having had Covid in the same week, while in Northern Ireland, it's around one in 15.
The next three-weekly review of the coronavirus regulations will be carried out by February 11 when the Welsh Government will review all the measures at alert level zero.
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