Chief Medical Officer for Wales, Dr Frank Atherton, said: “"It is with regret that today I am confirming a patient in Wales has sadly died after contracting Covid-19. Thirty new cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed in Wales bringing the total to 124. On Monday Dr Giri Shankar, incident director for the coronavirus outbreak response at PHW, said: "We can confirm that 30 new cases have tested positive for novel coronavirus in Wales, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 124." Email webnews@mirror.co.ukPHW said the residential areas of 12 of Monday's confirmed cases were not yet available, but as of Monday the Swansea local authority area had 23 confirmed cases, Caerphilly and Newport had 14, and the capital Cardiff had 11. Only the local authority areas of Denbighshire and Gwynedd in North Wales and Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales had not registered a confirmed case.

Source: Daily Mirror March 16, 2020 13:39 UTC