WALES has recorded 752 new coronavirus cases - the biggest daily increase in a 24-hour period since April.

The Cardiff and Vale University Health Board region has recorded 131 new coronavirus cases in total, according to Public Health Wales.

Cardiff has 108 new cases (the most in Wales today), with 23 in the Vale.

Three more coronavirus deaths have been confirmed in Wales. They are in the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board area (two), which includes Rhondda Cynon Taf, Merthyr Tydfil and Bridgend, and in the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board area in north Wales.

The rolling weekly case rate per 100,000 of the population now in the Vale is 57.6, while it is 120.2 in Cardiff.

The all-Wales rolling weekly case rate has risen again, to 92.6 per 100,000.

Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf continue to have the highest rolling weekly case rates, of 200.6 per 100,000, and 178.2 respectively.

The other newly confirmed cases today in Wales are located as follows:

Rhondda Cynon Taf - 92

Swansea - 76

Flintshire - 54

Wrexham - 41

Bridgend - 34

Neath Port Talbot - 29

Caerphilly - 25

Carmarthenshire - 25

Merthyr Tydfil - 23

Denbighshire - 17

Blaenau Gwent - 15

Newport - 15

Ceredigion - 14

Torfaen - 13

Conwy - 10

Gwynedd - eight

Pembrokeshire - eight

Powys - eight

Monmouthshire - seven

Anglesey - four

Unknown location - 10

Resident outside Wales - 91

Public Health Wales figures for coronavirus deaths include only those that have been confirmed by a laboratory test. The Office for National Statistics - which counts all deaths in which coronavirus is mentioned on the death certificate - puts the number of deaths in Wales much higher.