There have been 576 new Covid-19 cases recorded in the Hywel Dda Health Board area in 72 hours by Public Health Wales, according to the latest figures.
PHW figures for today (Tuesday, March 29) state there were 281 new cases in Carmarthenshire, 180 in Pembrokeshire and 115 in Ceredigion since the last report.
The total number of cases across the three counties now stands at 85,214 – 47,098 in Carmarthenshire, 25,599 in Pembrokeshire and 12,517 in Ceredigion.
Data on a Monday is for a 24 hour period up to 9am Friday, and data on a Tuesday is for the 72 hours up to 9am Monday.
Since January 6, Covid-19 testing policy has changed and asymptomatic people do not have to do a PCR test following a positive lateral flow test.
For the seven-day period ending on March 20, there were 19,189 lateral flow testing episodes across the three counties – with a person potentially recording multiple episodes – of which 4,367 were positive.
There was one new Covid-related death recorded in the Hywel Dda area. The total now stands at 726 throughout the pandemic.
In total, 4,853 new cases of coronavirus and four new Covid-related deaths have been reported across Wales, bringing the national total to 858,983 cases and 7,126 deaths.
There have been 19,867 PCR tests done across the country since the last report.
Across Wales 2,528,664 have had their first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine and 2,399,341 have had their second dose.
‘Booster’ doses have been given to 1,923,997 people and 75,435 people have received a three-dose primary course of Covid-19 vaccine.
