The number of people who tested positive for Covid-19 in Monmouthshire on January 2 was 234, this brings the total number of cases in Monmouthshire up to 14,611. This includes either lab-reported or rapid lateral flow tests.

There were 157,758 people who tested positive for Covid-19 in the UK on the same day, which brings the total number of UK cases up to 13,422,815.

Covid-19 cases are identified by taking specimens from people and testing them for the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. If the test is positive - except for rapid lateral flow tests which have negative confirmatory lab-based PCR tests taken within 72 hours - this is referred to as a case. If a person has more than one positive test, they are only counted as one case for all nations with the exception of Wales.