Public Health Wales reported that 657 people tested positive for Covid-19 in Powys on Sunday, January 2.

This means that Powys Teaching Health Board currently has 496.1 Coronavirus cases per 100,000 members of the population.

The latest figure also means that the total number of cases in the health board’s area now stands at 19,573.

Of the latest figures, PHW also showed that 1,261 tests were completed meaning that 52.1 per cent of those who undertook a test on Saturday received a positive result.

In Wales, 22,317 new cases were reported yesterday bringing the total number of cases to 668,473.

There were 218,724 people who tested positive for Covid-19 in the UK yesterday - Monday, January 3 - which brings the total number of cases up to 13,641,520.

Covid-19 cases are identified by taking specimens from people and testing them for the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. If the test is positive - except for rapid lateral flow tests which have negative confirmatory lab-based PCR tests taken within 72 hours - this is referred to as a case.

If a person has more than one positive test, they are only counted as one case for all nations with the exception of Wales.

For more information and the latest figures, visit the Public Health Wales website by clicking here.