There were no new coronavirus cases reported in Powys today, according to data released by Public Health Wales.

The number of people who have tested positive for coronavirus in the Powys Teaching Health Board area remains at 227, further indicating that the county may have passed the local peak of the virus.

However, the true number of cases is likely to be much higher, as will the number of deaths, which currently stand at 12 in the county. Office for National Statistics figures show that 65 people have died with confirmed or suspected coronavirus.

Across Powys, 23.3 per cent of the 975 people who have been tested for the virus have recorded a positive result.

There has been a total of 1,173 suspected deaths from the coronavirus reported in Wales, and there have been 11,960 confirmed cases across the country.

Dr Robin Howe, Incident Director for the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak response at Public Health Wales, said: "Public Health Wales welcomes the announcement today by the First Minister of the traffic light roadmap ‘Unlocking our society and economy: continuing the conversation’ which sets out how Wales could exit the coronavirus lockdown.

"In conjunction with the Welsh Government’s 'Test, Trace, Protect' strategy published earlier in the week, Public Health Wales will continue to work in partnership with our communities, the Welsh Government, the wider NHS and local government in Wales to focus on protecting the health of the people of Wales as we support the implementation of the strategy.

"We have been working hard to increase our testing capacity, and as of Monday 11 May 2020 our capacity was at 5,330 tests a day in Wales. We know there is more to do as demand increases, and we will continue to ramp up this capacity".