wales There were 69 deaths reported on Sunday - the highest number since the start of the pandemic Public Health Wales (PHW) has reported 69 deaths on Sunday, the highest number of deaths reported in a single 24-hour period since the start of the pandemic in March. It is double the number reported the day before, meaning 3,115 people have now died in Wales since March with lab-confirmed coronavirus.

uk New coronavirus variant: What do we know? The rapid spread of a new variant of coronavirus has been blamed for the introduction of strict tier four mixing rules for millions of people, harsher restrictions on mixing at Christmas in England, Scotland and Wales, and other countries placing the UK on a travel ban. So how has it gone from being non-existent to the most common form of the virus in parts of England in a matter of months? The government's advisers on new infections now say they have "high" confidence that it is more able to transmit than other variants. All the work is at an early stage, contains huge uncertainties and a long list of unanswered questions.