CEREDIGION has recorded four new cases of coronavirus, according to Public Health Wales figures, released this afternoon.

This takes the total of new cases in the county over the past seven days to 19.

Gwynedd, which unlike many other parts of North Wales, does not face a local lockdown from 6pm tonight, has recorded five new cases today, taking its seven-day total to 19 as well.

Powys has recorded six new cases today, bringing its seven-day total to 29.

Carmarthenshire has recorded 14 new cases today, bringing the seven-day total to 125, whilst Pembrokeshire has logged three new cases, taking the seven-day total in that county to 13.

30 new cases of coronavirus have been identified in Wales to people who are resident outside of Wales.

398 new cases of Covid-19 in total have been recorded today in Wales and six new deaths have been attributed to the virus, taking the nation’s death toll to 1,622.

Of those deaths, 423 have been recorded by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board in North Wales, 68 in Hywel Dda, which covers Ceredigion, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire and 15 in Powys Health Board.

Giving a daily update, Dr Robin Howe, Incident Director for the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak response at Public Health Wales, said: “Public Health Wales supports the introduction of new coronavirus restrictions in four local authority areas in North Wales – Denbighshire, Flintshire, Conwy and Wrexham – following a rise in cases.

“The new measures will come into force at 6pm today, to protect people’s health and control the spread of the virus in the four areas.

“These arrangements are necessary in order to bring transmission of the virus under control in these areas. It is very important that we abide by the regulations in the areas in which we live and that we do not travel between local authority areas without a reasonable excuse.

“We remind people living in areas of Wales where there are currently no restrictions in place to remember, at all times, the importance of adhering to the regulations to prevent further local restrictions.

“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.”