Covid in Wales: How many deaths have there been?

A further 31 people have died with coronavirus in Wales, taking the total to 2,849.

The number of positive Covid tests has reached 100,725, with 2,494 new cases, according to Public Health Wales.

A total of 19,837 tests were carried out Friday.

The highest number of newly-confirmed cases was in Cardiff, where 327 people tested positive, followed by 324 cases in Swansea.

That compares with three new cases on Anglesey, 10 in Conwy and 15 in Gwynedd.

The area with the highest rate of coronavirus was Merthyr Tydfil, where there were 808.9 cases per 100,000 of the population in the past seven days, compared with an all-Wales average of 430.1.

The new data comes after Merthyr Tydfil recorded the previous worst case rate for Covid-19 in the UK in November when its figures hit 741 cases per 100,000 people in a seven day period.

Anglesey has the lowest rate of any area in Wales with 31.4 cases per 100,000 people, followed by Gwynedd with 45.8 cases per 100,000 people.

A total of 1,061,717 people have now been tested since the outbreak started in Wales, with 960,992 testing negative.

Among the latest deaths, nine were in the Aneurin Bevan health board area, which covers the old Gwent region and Caerphilly county.

There were six deaths in Swansea Bay health board area, six in Hywel Dda health board area in west Wales and a further six in Cwm Taf Morgannwg, which covers part of the south Wales valleys.

There were a further two deaths in both the Cardiff and Vale health board area and Betsi Cadwaladr health board area, which covers north Wales.

PHW is due to publish its next update on Monday at midday following planned maintenance of the NHS Welsh Laboratory Information Management System, which means there will be no report of deaths or cases on Sunday.

On Friday it was reported that 10 local council areas - as well as Wales as a whole - reported their highest case rates.

Broken down further at local levels, the hotspots remain in the south Wales valleys and Neath Port Talbot, although Caerau near Maesteg, Bridgend county, reported the highest local case rate recorded so far - 2,005.9 cases per 100,000.

This means 142 people living in the area have tested positive in the past week.

Bridgend county is one of eight local council areas with more than 20% of tests proving positive.

Council leader Huw David said cases had trebled in the past 10 days and it was an "exceptionally challenging time".

"Now more than ever, people need to take the pandemic seriously and act to protect their friends, family, neighbours and themselves," he added.

The number of patients in hospital with Covid in Wales on 10 December stood at 1,966 according to the latest NHS figures. This is a record high, up 157 on the week before.

All areas, other than Betsi Cadwaladr, have seen a rise in hospital numbers with Aneurin Bevan seeing the biggest increase and has the most patients, 586.

Of those patients in Welsh hospitals - 1,143 were confirmed Covid-19 patients and there were 195 patients with suspected Covid and a record 628 recovering from the virus.

Covid-19 patients make up nearly 25% of all patients in hospital. This compares to around 18% at the end of May and is slowly rising.

There were 86 people being treated on invasive ventilated beds with confirmed or suspected coronavirus, that is 12 more than last week.

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.

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.