Dr Gillian Richardson, senior responsible officer for Wales’ Covid-19 vaccination programme, said: “Just four weeks since the first Covid-19 vaccine was approved for use in the UK and almost 50,000 people have received a vaccine.
“This is the first mass vaccination programme of its kind in Wales and the efforts by NHS Wales and Public Health Wales have been exceptional.
“The number of doses unable to be used have been incredibly low – at around 1% – and significantly below anticipated levels, thanks to the robust appointment planning and reserve lists.
“The recent approval of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is a real game-changer and will help us speed up our vaccination programme considerably.
The jabbing rates for every Welsh health board as North Wales lags behind with vaccinations
People in Mid Wales are more than three times more likely to have had the jab than those in the north
16:13, 7 JAN 2021
Latest Public Health Wales figures relate only to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The number of people being jabbed is expected to rise sharply once health boards have regular supplies of the Oxford vaccine (Image: Danny Lawson/PA Wire)
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Hywel Dda University Health Board area has seen a further 156 new coronavirus cases according to today’s (Wednesday, January 5) figures. Public Health Wales figures show 83 new cases in Carmarthenshire, 47 new cases in Pembrokeshire and 26 in Ceredigion. The total number of cases across the three counties now totals 11,826 – 8,188 in Carmarthenshire, 1,329 in Ceredigion and 2,309 in Pembrokeshire. There were 2,238 new cases reported throughout Wales, bringing the total amount of cases since the start of the pandemic to 161,516. In Wales there have been 3,738 deaths with suspected links to coronavirus, 76 of those were reported today. In the three counties of Pembrokeshire, Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire there has been a total of 250 Covid-19 related deaths, with six more reported in the Hywel Dda area in the last 24 hours.