POWYS businesses received more than £66 million in grants and nearly 3,500 employees benefitted from £1.7m in payment support – just some of the statistics revealed behind the county council’s response to coronavirus. In figures due to be presented to its cabinet later this month, Powys County Council (PCC) has compiled a third quarter report gauging performance against national and strategic targets. And between the months of October and December 2020, figures reveal that 2,150 positive Covid-19 cases were reported during the period, with 99 per cent of 9,036 contacts traced. A total of 1,032 young people received emotional health and wellbeing support via school youth workers as the council received just shy of 20,000 customer service calls (19,240).