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media captionCovid: A third of hospital beds in Wales are taken by coronavirus patients
The number of Covid patients in Wales hospitals is now more than double the previous peak seen last April.
Welsh NHS Chief Executive Andrew Goodall said 2,870 Covid patients were being treated.
The effect of lockdown restrictions will take some weeks to be felt, he told coronavirus briefing.
There are some signs that coronavirus levels are starting to stabilise, although an official warned rates remained high in parts of north Wales.
Dr Goodall told Wednesday s press conference that - at current levels - the NHS would have to make some very difficult decisions about the services it could provide.
WALES is at a ‘critical moment’ and it is ‘more important that ever’ to follow the rules, says Chief Medical Officer. At the Welsh Government press conference on January 6, a clear message was sent out to the people of Wales. Coronavirus is still rapidly spreading through communities and is putting immense pressures on our NHS services. Chief Medical Officer Dr Frank Atherton said there is ‘good news’ about the Pfizer and Oxford vaccines which are speeding up the vaccination programmes across the UK. He added this ‘potentially offers a way out’ of the pandemic but it will ‘take quite a while’ to protect everyone who needs it.