Covid in Wales: How many deaths have there been?

Another 11 people have died with coronavirus in Wales, according to the latest figures.

This means a total of 1,859 people have died since the start of the pandemic.

A further 1,737 new cases were reported on Thursday, bringing the total number of known cases to 49,571, according to Public Health Wales data.

The highest number of new confirmed cases was in Rhondda Cynon Taf where 278 people tested positive.

This was followed by Cardiff, where 252 people had positive tests, and Swansea with 200 cases.

The area with the highest rate of coronavirus is Merthyr Tydfil, where there were 608.1 cases per 100,000 of the population in the last seven days.

Ceredigion, with 35.8 per 100,000, has the lowest case rate of any area in Wales.

The deaths reported on Friday included six in Cwm Taf Morgannwg and four in Swansea Bay. They included a death which happened on 22 October, which takes the total for that day to 25 - the highest daily total since the start of May.

The rolling average for deaths is now 13 a day for the week up to 28 October.

Another 12,665 tests were carried out yesterday and, of the 734,891 people tested in total, 685,320 have tested negative - in total over one million tests have taken place.

In Wales the proportion of tests coming back positive, looking at the last seven days, now stands at 17.8%.

But in nine of the 22 local authorities the proportion is above this average, with positive test rates in Merthyr Tydfil, Cardiff, Caerphilly, Blaenau Gwent, Swansea and Rhondda Cynon Taf above 20%.

PHW reports new deaths daily, but these have usually occurred over previous days, sometimes several days ago.

The figures do not include deaths of residents from Powys in hospitals in England, although these are later included in Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, which also shows deaths in care homes, hospices and people's own homes.

Analysis of thousands of swab results means the Office for National Statistics (ONS) can estimate that 26,100 people in Wales had coronavirus - about 0.86% or one in 120 people, in the week up to 23 October.

This is 9,400 more than estimated in the previous week.

The testing, which began at the end of June, has been expanded as part of this monitoring programme to help produce a fuller picture.

Over a six-week period, it asked 14,719 people in Wales for nose or throat swabs. It tested the results and found 67 positive results, from 52 people from 40 households.

From that, ONS makes its calculations, although it says data should be treated with caution.

"There is some evidence that positivity rates may now have levelled off, although uncertainty is high," it said.

The figures estimate one in 100 people in England had the virus in the same week, compared with one in 160 the week before.

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