THE number of patients being admitted to Welsh hospitals with coronavirus fell in the week leading up to most Covid restrictions being lifted.
A total of 5,935 people were admitted to hospital for any reason in the week ending January 23, Public Health Wales has confirmed.
Of these 376 (six per cent) were known to have tested positive for coronavirus before admission, while a further 142 people (two per cent) tested positive on admission.
This means the number of people who tested positive for Covid on or prior to admission has dropped from 572 the previous week to 518 in the latest update.
The number of people who tested positive for Covid on or prior to admission for the week ending January 16 had previously been reported as 569, but Public Health Wales has since clarified the figure as 572.
“Due to ongoing data cleaning to improve data quality and linkage, some previously reported numbers are subject to change,” said a Public Health Wales spokesperson.
Of the 1,263 admissions in Gwent, 123 people (10 per cent) tested positive prior to admission. A further 27 (two per cent) tested positive on admission.
This means there was a slight rise from the previous week in the number of people testing positive prior to or on admission, from 135 to 150.
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Across Wales, 10 patients were admitted to critical care units having tested positive for Covid, while a further three test positive on admission. This came from 1,158 critical care admissions across Wales during the week.
Both in Gwent and further afield across Wales, the number of probable or definite hospital onset cases has risen slightly.
In Gwent, from 3,729 cases in the week up to January 23, a total of 27 were deemed either definite (24) or probable (three) hospital onset - meaning they had caught the infection in hospital - cases.
This is a slight rise from 22 in the previous week.
The origin of a further eight cases could not be identified.
Of the 16,697 cases recorded across Wales in the week covered by the latest Public Health Wales figures, 220 were either probable or definite hospital onset cases.
A further 161 cases were determined to have been definite hospital onset cases, and 59 were found to be probable, with a further 65 deemed indeterminate.
The number of probable or definite hospital onset cases rose from 215 across Wales in the previous week.
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