The number of people sticking rigidly to Covid rules has dropped by up to a third, research suggests.
The latest public engagement survey by PHW, which has spoken to 18,000 people since the start of the pandemic, said the proportion of adults "very worried" about catching Covid had dropped massively since the start of the year - falling from 31% to just 8%.
It comes as well over two million people in Wales have now received at least one dose of Covid vaccine, and over a million have been completely vaccinated.Fewer people are now "very worried" about catching coronavirus, according to a PHW study "Overall, there is a picture emerging that we can see over the last couple of weeks, certainly the last few months, there has been a dip in compliance," said Dr Williams, who is a senior lecturer in people and organisation at Swansea University's School of Business."It's a classic case of mixed messages. We see at a UK level the message that there is an irreversible roadmap, that we are going to open up further in June.
There have been 30 more cases sequenced of the B.1.617.2 variant - the one of concern - in the most recent week. They had been detected in all health board areas except Powys, but were primarily in traceable clusters in Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan, according to health officials.