Wales sees second day with no new Covid-19 deaths reported
Wales has seen its second day in which no new Covid-19 deaths have been reported, Public Health Wales figures show.
It comes after there were no new deaths for the first time in Wales on Monday.
The data also revealed a further ten people have tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Wales to 15,939.
1,540 people have died with the virus, according to Public Health Wales.
The death toll in the UK increased by 48. As of 5pm on Thursday, 44,650 have died across all settings from those tested positive for coronavirus in the UK.
The figures, from the Department of Health and Social Care (DoH), do not include all deaths involving Covid-19 across the UK, which are thought to have passed 55,000 according to Office for National Statistics data.
The numbers released by the government include all deaths in hospitals, care homes and the wider community in people who have tested positive for coronavirus.
On Wednesday, three Welsh hospitals announced they had no new confirmed cases of Covid-19.
Cwm Taf Morganwwg University Health Board said the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, in Llantrisant, Prince Charles Hospital, in Merthyr Tydfil, and Princess of Wales Hospital, in Bridgend, were all free of new Covid-19 cases.
The health board also confirmed on Tuesday the Royal Glamorgan Hospital had no coronavirus patients.