Eight more people in Powys have died with suspected coronavirus, figures from Britain's data monitoring service showed today.

Four of the deaths, which occurred in the week ending May 15, did so in hospital, three in care homes, and one in the person's home.

The figures from the Office for National Statistics mean the total number of people to have died with suspected cases of the disease in the county has now reached 84.

That is nine more than had been counted last week, after the figures for the week ending May 8, were revised upwards by one.

During the course of the entire outbreak so far, five people in Powys have died at home, 34 have passed away in hospital, while care homes account for more than half of all deaths with 45 people having died in hospital.

Nationally, the number of deaths involving coronavirus in the UK reached its lowest weekly level for six weeks in May, new figures show.

There were 4,210 deaths involving Covid-19 registered in the week ending May 15, according to the most recent data from the ONS.

Data differences

Figures are released by Public Health Wales each day which show a far lower fatality rate than the ONS data.

The latest figures show 13 confirmed deaths of people with coronavirus in Powys, but the two sources differ for a number of reasons.

The health body's figures relate to cases where coronavirus has been confirmed, and only include people who have died in hospital settings in Wales.

As such, this excludes people who have died in hospitals in England, those who have passed away in care homes, and those who died without having been tested to confirm the presence of coronavirus.

The ONS figures refer to all cases in which Covid-19 is mentioned on a death certificate, even where it may not have been the primary cause of death.