Over 99,000 vaccines administered in Wrexham as North Wales total exceeds 600,000

Over 600,000 coronavirus vaccines have now been administered across North Wales.

Data released by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board on Wednesday show that the number of first and second doses combined takes the total up to 604,402.

Of these 411,889 have been first doses and 192,507 have been second.

In Wrexham 99,092 vaccinations have been administered so far. This breaks down into the following for each of the 10 groups.

• Residents in Older Persons Care Homes (1st and 2nd dose Vaccinated or declined): 106% and 91%
• Staff working in Older Persons Care Homes (1st and 2nd dose Vaccinated or declined): 88% and 68%
• People aged 80 years and over (1st and 2nd dose Vaccinated or declined): 99% and 92%
• Frontline Healthcare workers (1st and 2nd dose Vaccinated or declined): 95% and 85%
• Frontline social care workers (1st and 2nd dose Vaccinated or declined): 97% and 68%
• People aged 75 to 79 years (1st and 2nd dose Vaccinated or declined): 98% and 87%
• People aged 70 to 74 years (1st and 2nd dose Vaccinated or declined): 96% and 79%
• All those aged under 16-69 yrs who are clinically extremely vulnerable (1st and 2nd dose Vaccinated or declined): 94% and 65%
• All those aged 65 years and over (1st and 2nd dose Vaccinated or declined): 90% and 24%
• Moderate risk adults under 70 years of age (1st and 2nd dose Vaccinated or declined): 85% and 7%
• All those aged 60 – 64 years (1st and 2nd dose Vaccinated or declined): 88% and 4%
• All those aged 55 – 59 years (1st and 2nd dose Vaccinated or declined): 84% and 4%
• All those aged 50 – 54 years (1st and 2nd dose Vaccinated or declined): 82% and 3%
• All those aged 40 – 49 years (1st and 2nd dose Vaccinated or declined): 35% and 1%
• All those aged 30 – 39 years (1st and 2nd dose Vaccinated or declined): 11% and 1%
• All those aged 18 – 29 years (1st and 2nd dose Vaccinated or declined): 16% and 1%

Across Wales 1,873,152 doses of a coronavirus vaccine have been administered. Of this figure 783,120 have received both vaccinations.

Yesterday Wrexham.com reported that in recent weeks there has been what has been described as a “growing problem” with people failing to attend vaccine appointments.

Last week Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board urged employers to allow staff the time off to be vaccinated when contacted.

Other reasons include duplicate appointments, incorrect contact details or appointment letters arriving late.

However Gill Harris, Executive Director of Nursing and Midwifery, said in the majority of missed appointments are due to people failing to notify the health board that they can either not attend or do not want to be vaccinated.

Ms Harris said: “Vaccines are never thrown away, but each missed appointment wastes vital NHS resources and creates significant logistical challenges for our staff, who are pulled away from other duties to contact people next in line at short notice to fill appointment slots.

“Vaccination provides the best protection from becoming seriously ill with COVID-19, and it is our best route out of the pandemic.”