ANOTHER four new cases of coronavirus have been found in Powys today.

Public Health Wales figures show the number of confirmed cases in Powys has increased by four to 472, although the true figure is likely to be higher.

Powys Teaching Health Board has suggested Office for National Statistics (ONS) data to be the most accurate.

The ONS date shows deaths where coronavirus may have been present since the epidemic began.

The total number of deaths in the county from the virus remains 95.There has been 48 in care homes deaths, 38 deaths in hospital and nine in a home setting.

The ONS figures are considered the most accurate representation of the spread of the disease in Powys, despite including cases where coronavirus had not been confirmed in a laboratory, which the official data from Public Health Wales does not cover.

Dr Robin Howe, Incident Director for the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak response at Public Health Wales, said: “We are continuing to see a steady increase in cases in many communities across Wales, and our investigations show that many of these have been transmitted due to a lack of social distancing.

“The council areas of Cardiff, Swansea, the Vale of Glamorgan, Carmarthen, Anglesey, Conwy, Denbighshire and Flintshire are all areas of concern to us and we are watching the data from there carefully, but numbers of cases are increasing in all parts of Wales so there is no room for complacency in any area.

“We are also seeing an increase in the number of people who are seriously ill and have been admitted to hospital with COVID-19.

“We are concerned that much of the good work conducted over the past few months is at risk of going to waste. If the situation continues to worsen, we may find ourselves at the same levels of infection that we experienced earlier this year in March and April; and with that comes the potential for more extended restrictions to be imposed nationally."