Wales coronavirus case rate back above 100 per 100,000 for the first time in almost five months.

WALES' rolling weekly coronavirus case rate has risen above 100 per 100,000 people for the first time in almost five months.

The rate for the week ending July 1, the latest available, is 103.2 per 100,000, almost three times that of just a week earlier - and it is the first time above three figures since the week ending February 7.

A further 698 cases have been confirmed across Wales today, taking the total confirmed in the past week to more than 4,000.

Of these, 629 cases have been in Gwent, including the 103 confirmed today, as follows - Newport, 32; Torfaen, 28, Caerphilly, 27; Monmouthshire, nine; Blaenau Gwent, seven.




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