We'll also start to include data from the Office for National Statistics Covid-19 infection survey when it is published. Public Health Wales also publishes a weekly report on lateral flow testing which we will start including in his bulletin on the days it is published.
Over time, Public Health Wales expects the stability of the case figures to improve. We are continuing to report the daily figures but comparing today's infection rate with previous figures is now unreliable. This change in guidance is expected to lead to 10% fall in the number of positive cases being officially recorded by Public Health Wales and the seven-day infection rate across Wales reported today is the first to be affected by this. People with symptoms should still seek a PCR test first.
Last week the Welsh Government announced that people who are asymptomatic who test positive on a lateral flow will no longer need to have a follow-up PCR test. Read more: Staff shortages, rising Covid cases, and frustrated patients: Working in a Valleys GP surgery in winter The overall number of people who have died within 28 days of testing positive in Wales has now reached 6,668. The data, published on Wednesday, January 12, and covering a 24-hour period, shows 2,886 new positive cases to bring the total to 732,548. A further fourteen people have died with coronavirus in Wales, according to latest figures from Public Health Wales.
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