Wales has recorded one new coronavirus death, latest figures show.
Public Health Wales (PHW), which records all lab-confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths, has published its latest daily update.
These are the key details from Monday’s release:
PHW said on Monday the number of lab-confirmed positive cases of coronavirus in Wales had increased by 19 to bring the total to 17,746.
Swansea had the highest number of new cases with four reported. Cardiff reported three new cases.
Wrexham, Newport and Rhondda Cynon Taf all reported two.
Caerphilly, Conwy, Denbighshire, Vale of Glamorgan, Merthyr Tydfil, and Powys each reported one new case.
All other local authorities had no new cases.
These are the areas with the highest seven-day rolling averages for new cases – one of the key benchmarks watched by Public Health Wales.
All figures are reported as cases adjusted for population (100k people).
Cardiff: 12.8 cases
Merthyr Tydfil: 11.6 cases
Gwynedd: 5.6 cases
Wrexham: 5.1 cases
Swansea: 4.9 cases
Denbighshire: 4.2 cases
(All other areas have below the Wales average of 4.0 cases per 100,000 people)
The cumulative number of deaths in Wales:
So-called “true” death figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which include deaths in all places and also when Covid-19 is suspected rather than confirmed, found that 2,544 had died with the virus in Wales registered up to August 15.
Despite testing capacity standing at more than 15,000 each day in Wales, 5,021 took place on Friday, August 21.
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First Minister Mark Drakeford gave an update on the situation in Wales on Friday.
He stated that Wales was the only part of the UK where the daily rate of new coronavirus infections was falling.
“In the past seven days, over 40,300 tests had been carried out in Wales and 141 of them were positive. That is a positivity rate of 0.3%,” he said.
He said that even though some areas of Wales had seen “peaks”, they were not resulting in community outbreaks.
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