THERE have been no new coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Powys in the last 48 hours.

Today's Public Health Wales Figures show no more cases of coronavirus has been confirmed in Powys, leaving the total number at 299.

There have been 14 deaths in the county overall according to their figures, but Powys Teaching Health Board has indicated a preference to use the ONS data as the strongest indicator of the spread of the disease in the county.

ONS data shows there have been 90 coronavirus deaths in Powys as their figures refer to all cases in which coronavirus is mentioned on a death certificate, even where it may not have been the primary cause of death

Dr Robin Howe, Incident Director for the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak response at Public Health Wales, said:

“Public Health Wales is currently supporting two local outbreaks.

“Following a multi-agency Outbreak Control Team meeting which took place on Wednesday 24 June, a total of 201 cases of Novel Coronavirus have been identified in the workforce associated with the 2 Sisters plant in Llangefni, Anglesey.

“Rapid screening of the workforce continues, with more than 500 samples taken so far. The small increase in cases indicates that the focused track and trace programme is working well.

“We are confident that we have successfully identified the majority of cases associated with the 2 Sisters workforce, and that our tracking and control measures are working to bring the outbreak to a rapid conclusion.

“As focused testing continues we may identify additional cases, but this what we anticipated would happen when any population group is put under close scrutiny. Any increase in the number of cases found in the workforce does not mean that the infection is increasing in the local population as a whole.”

“Testing of the workforce associated with an outbreak of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Wrexham area is continuing.

“The mobile testing unit at the Rowan Foods Ltd site has tested in excess of 1,000 people since Sunday, supplemented by community and postal test services. We are in the process of combining information to identify the full scope of the ongoing testing process and total number of positive cases. To date a total of 97 cases have been identified.

“Rapid contact tracing also continues, and as expected, is identifying additional cases associated with the workforce."