NEW figures from Public Health Wales show exactly where coronavirus has been circulating within the Powys community.

The map – provided by health officials in response to COVID-19 - presents data broken down beyond the standard local authority areas and shows how individual communities compare.

Lately we have switched to a weekly rather than three-weekly snapshot of the figures, and included the south of county, beyond the County Times' traditional patch.

It shows that cases have generally on the decrease across Powys again in the last week, although there has been a rise in cases most notably in Welshpool, where 16 new cases were recorded in the seven days to January 31.

Llanfyllin has also seen an increase in cases for the same time period.

Rhayader has again had the highest number of cases per 100,000 people in the last week, while the largest drop in the number of cases in the last seven days was in the Four Crosses and Guilsfield area.

The data is gathered using Office of National Statistics figures of middle layer super output areas (MSOAs) and present the rolling number of cases in either a seven-day or 21-day window.

Darker areas indicate higher concentrations of the virus whilst lighter areas show lower transmission rates. The map details state that case numbers are suppressed for any MSOA where there were fewer than three identified cases.