Wales recorded a single new coronavirus death on Wednesday following no deaths at all reported on the previous two days.
Public Health Wales (PHW) confirmed on Wednesday, July 23, that the number of deaths with lab-confirmed Covid-19 since the outbreak began had risen to 1,548, a rise of one in the previous 24 hours. It can, however, take several days for a death to be logged officially.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) the true death toll in Wales, where the virus was mentioned on a death certificate, was already 2,484 by July 10.
Meanwhile PHW said the number of lab-confirmed positive cases of coronavirus in Wales had increased by 22 to bring the total to 16,987.
Of the 22 new cases half of them were in Wrexham and four in Flintshire with one new case confirmed in Caerphilly, Conwy, Denbighshire, RCT, Powys, Neath Port Talbot, and Swansea.
Though testing capacity stands at 15,000 each day in Wales just 16% of that was used with 2,444 tests carried out on Tuesday, July 21.
Wales has also started to release figures for how many people are known or thought to have contracted Covid-19 in Wales' hospitals with more than 10% of all confirmed coronavirus cases in Wales believed to have been the result of hospital transmission.
The data shows that the areas with the greatest number of cases also saw the highest levels of hospital transmission.
