ONE new case of coronavirus has been found in Powys.

Public Health Wales figures show the number of confirmed cases in Powys has increased to 463, although the true figure is likely to be higher.

But figures released earlier today by the Office for National Statistics show that no-one from the county died with the virus in the week leading up to September 19.

Powys Teaching Health Board has suggested Office for National Statistics (ONS) data to be the most accurate.

The ONS date shows deaths where coronavirus may have been present since the epidemic began.

Latest figures from the Office for National Statistics released today show that no one in the county died after contracting a suspected case of Covid-19, meaning the total number of deaths in the county from the virus remains 95.

There has been 48 in care homes deaths, 38 deaths in hospital and nine in a home setting.

The ONS figures are considered the most accurate representation of the spread of the disease in Powys, despite including cases where coronavirus had not been confirmed in a laboratory, which the official data from Public Health Wales does not cover.

Dr Giri Shankar, Incident Director for the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak response at Public Health Wales, said: “We are continuing to see a steady increase in cases in many communities across Wales, and our investigations show that many of these have been transmitted due to a lack of social distancing.

“The council areas of Cardiff, Swansea, the Vale of Glamorgan, Carmarthen, Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire and Flintshire are all areas of concern to us and we are watching the data from there carefully, but numbers of cases are increasing in all parts of Wales so there is no room for complacency in any area.

“We are also seeing an increase in the number of people who are seriously ill and have been admitted to hospital with COVID-19.