First Minister Mark Drakeford has announced a number of changes to Wales' Covid rules from next week. From Monday, March 28 people will no longer have to wear masks in shops or on public transport, but they will still be needed in health and social care and businesses will still have to carry out risk assessments.
The latest review of coronavirus rules saw the Welsh Government stop short of relaxing all restrictions as it had said it hoped to do earlier this month. This is due to the BA.2 variant of coronavirus which is causing rising case numbers in Wales. If you want to know more about that you can see what we know so far here, and to keep up to date with the latest coronavirus news, subscribe to our daily briefing newsletter here.
Explaining the decision on Friday, Mr Drakeford said: "We had hoped, as you know, to have lifted all legal restrictions on Monday of next week, we're not we're not able to do that, in the light of the numbers that we're currently seeing. So we continue our step-by-step approach to dealing with the virus, lifting some of the legal restrictions on Monday, but having to keep others in place."
