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Rees, formerly of Aberystwyth Street, Splott, Cardiff, also assaulted PC Carly Brown on the night of January 12. Miss Shepherd said: “This was a sustained incident which lasted around 25 minutes and in which the defendant’s teeth were used as a weapon.” He pleaded guilty to causing actual bodily harm, two counts of assaulting an emergency worker and resisting a constable. The defendant also admitted the criminal damage of a police body worn camera and to a Gwent Police van by spitting in it. Rees has previous convictions for common assault, resisting a constable and drink driving. Giles Hayes, representing him, said: “Drugs and alcohol played their part in his behaviour. He wasn’t thinking properly.
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The average number of daily admissions in Wales last week was 100, down from 115 the previous week. While the average number of people in hospital with coronavirus each day was 2525, down from 2,701.
This chart shows how the number of people hospitalised with coronavirus in Wales has changed over the last two months However, despite the recent fall, pressure on the NHS in Wales remains high. Doctors who share coronavirus updates from their South Wales hospitals are being sworn at on social media, called liars and killers , and being likened to Nazi genetic scientists. Dr Ami Jones, intensive care consultant at Gwent s new Grange University Hospital, said she had received vicious messages online calling for her to be struck off or rounded up and put in prison .