The Welsh Rugby Union has cancelled all league and cup competitions for the rest of the season due to coronavirus.

The cancellation means there will be no promotion or relegation in any WRU league, with all teams remaining in their current division.

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Ford Bridgend is the latest automotive company to stop production for several weeks because of the economic impact of Coronavirus.Its 1,300 workers will stop work on Wednesday with the summer shutdown being brought forward to join the planned Easter closure .The employees will only paid their basic salary.The Bridgend plant makes engines for Ford cars assembled in mainland Europe and engines for Jaguar .From Monday, the factories responsible for making two-thirds of the cars produced in the UK will have ceased production for several weeks because of the virus.Wales has 18,000 people working in a wide range of companies making parts for car makers. Shutdowns have already been announced by BMW, Toyota and Honda, and will hit those firms supplying parts.Fewer cars assembled means fewer parts needed and "just in time" manufacturing means that stocks of finished parts are not kept.

It will be very difficult for components firms not to cut back their production too.

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The Wales National Pool in Swansea is to close due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The £11m facility is where some of our greatest swimmers like Jazz Carlin and David Davies trained before going on to win Commonwealth titles.

Fiifty healthcare workers have written an open letter to Welsh Government calling for "urgent steps" to protect NHS staff and tackle the Covid-19 outbreak.

The letter claims a lack of protection for staff from contracting the virus and a ‘dangerous’ shortage of intensive care beds and ventilators in Welsh hospitals.

In a letter backed by the trade union Unison and the union body TUC, the professionals are demanding testing for all healthcare staff and new patients, protective equipment for frontline workers and mass production of ventilators.

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A number of supermarkets are advertising jobs to help meet increased demand from shoppers.

MP for Vale of Glamorgan and former Welsh secretary Alun Cairns tweeted, encouraging businesses hiring to respond.

£10m is being made available to councils to "protect" the homeless and rough sleepers in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Welsh Government wants councils to take "immediate and direct action" - and hopes the funding will help authorities "secure" accommodation so the vulnerable can be "protected, supported, and isolated if necessary".

The government said this could include buying B&B or hotel rooms, empty student accommodation and other premises to operate alongside existing provision.

But official said any new provision will need to be "managed and supported by the professionals working in this sector to ensure high quality support, hygiene standards and appropriate monitoring for symptoms and illness".

Car giant Ford is to close its plant in Bridgend "due to the dramatic impact" of the coronavirus outbreak.

The vehicle manufacturer will shut down its Dagenham engine plant in east London from Monday and then its engine plant in south Wales from Wednesday.

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Examination board WJEC and Qualifications Wales have given more details of how they will award grades for GCSE, A level and Skills Challenge Certificate (Welsh Bacc).

They confirmed they would base grades on a mix of completed assessments and teacher-assessed grades.

WJEC said it would be in contact with schools and colleges in April to provide further details on how and when to submit the teacher-assessed grades.

They are continuing to discuss how they will award grades for vocational qualifications.

Ian Morgan, chief executive of WJEC, said: “Today, Qualifications Wales has published a letter to schools and colleges outlining the key aspects of the process, which will draw on different sources of evidence such as marks achieved by learners in previous internal and external assessments as well as standardised teacher assessed qualification grades.

“Qualifications Wales has clearly outlined that teacher assessed grades must be based on the overall qualification grade each learner is likely to achieve at the end of their course of study, based on their performance on a range of classroom and external assessments and on their overall commitment to their studies and ability in the subject.

"Teacher-assessed grades, for this purpose, are not target grades or ambitious grades that learners might aspire to achieve.

"We will consider the full range of evidence, including teacher assessed grades, and will standardise these across the full cohort, thus leading to a final grade to award to each learner.”

Here are the key lines Wales from the past few hours:

• 21 new cases have been confirmed
• There has been a third death from the virus
• School are preparing to close at the end of the school day
• Letters are being sent to more than 65,000 retired doctors and nurses in England and Wales asking them to return to the NHS
• Social distancing would be needed for "at least half of the year" to stop intensive care units being overwhelmed, according to the UK government's scientific advisers

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Muslim Council Wales says it is "strongly urging mosques to suspend congregational prayers until further notice".

It added: "We urge all Welsh mosques to undertake an assessment of their activities and cease those that present a risk to themselves or others."

Lois, a year 13 pupil at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Bro Myrddin in Carmarthen said:

"Some people are quite happy that they don't have to sit exams and they're getting their predicted grades but some other people feel quite guilty - that they're getting the grades without working - they feel that they should sit the exams in order to achieve something. There are mixed emotions and reactions but overall, we're all just a bit confused."

Fellow pupil Steffan said: "It's a bit sad because we now realise this is the last day in school and as year 13s we might never see each other again and we've had to rush to thank the teachers - that's the worst thing about it."

Young people with time on their hands should volunteer to help those in need, the Archbishop of Wales will say in his message for Mothering Sunday

The Most Rev John Davies will appeal to those whose college courses or jobs have been suspended to get involved in groups that are being set up in communities to help those struggling to cope with the coronavirus crisis.

There will be no Mothering Sunday services in churches this weekend and all public worship has been suspended for the foreseeable future.

People are being invited to share prayers online and some services are being streamed on social media.

The coronavirus pandemic is having a "devastating" impact on Wales' cycling industry, with parks closing and others limiting their activity, according to people in the industry.

Mountain biking is worth more than £54m a year to the Welsh economy, but the sector faces challenging times ahead.

Three parks in north Wales have already closed temporarily.

A body representing more than 700 pharmacy owners in Wales says they are under "unprecedented and challenging demand" .

Community Pharmacy Wales has asked people to plan ahead and order prescription medication seven days in advance.

Despite schools shutting, the Welsh Government said childcare services have not been asked to close.

This includes childcare settings on school sites.

The founder of the housebuilder Redrow has said he will donate £1m per week to charity in order to fight the "war on coronavirus".

Steve Morgan said his foundation will donate to charities in north Wales, Merseyside and Cheshire to help the most vulnerable members of society.

Mr Morgan said more than 50 charities have approached the foundation for financial help since the crisis began.

Bus services are being reduced across Wales.

Stagecoach announced a temporary reduced service to operate from Monday following the latest government advice on social contact and non-essential travel.

On Sunday there will be a normal Sunday service, on Monday and Tuesday there will be a Saturday service, from Wednesday there will be an enhanced Sunday until further notice and from 29 March there will be no Sunday service until further notice.

Cardiff Bus said from Monday it was moving to a Saturday timetable.

Residents of a care home in Maesteg have come up with a novel approach to keeping entertained during a period of isolation.

People living at Bryn Celyn played life-size hungry hippos using their wheelchairs, and the results are incredible...