Covid in Wales: How many deaths have there been?
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A further 23 people in Wales have died with coronavirus, taking the total to 2,563, according to the latest figures.
Public Health Wales reported an additional 667 cases, taking the total to 81,009 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Of the 23 newly reported deaths, 20 were in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board area.
Blaenau Gwent currently has the highest rate of cases with 431.5 per 100,000 people.
It overtakes Torfaen as the county with the highest case rate over the past seven days, after the rate there fell from 442.7 to 410.8.
Seven of Wales' 22 counties - Blaenau Gwent, Torfaen, Neath Port Talbot, Merthyr Tydfil, Swansea, Newport and Rhondda Cynon Taf - currently have a case rate of more than 300.
Five counties have a case rate below 100, with Conwy (29.9) and Gwynedd (31.3) the lowest.
Neath Port Talbot has the highest positivity rate, with 20.1% of tests returning a positive result.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended the positivity proportion of tests should be no more than 5% before areas come out of restrictions.
A total of 7,372 new tests were carried out on Monday.
More than 1.5 million tests have been taken in Wales since the start of the pandemic.
Only two health board areas reported new deaths on Tuesday, with 20 in Cwm Taf Morgannwg and three in the Aneurin Bevan area.
Acute patients from Powys are usually treated across the border at hospitals in England, so deaths of Powys residents usually only appear in registrations reported later by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Those ONS figures - which are higher - also count both confirmed and suspected cases of Covid, as well as deaths in all settings, including care homes, hospices and people's own homes. The most recent weekly figures are the highest since May.
PHW reports new deaths daily, but these are usually from previous days.
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The postcode search has been updated to replace data for health boards in Scotland with data for local councils. In England, data for county councils has been replaced with data for district councils. Figures for boroughs and unitary authorities remain unchanged.
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