Homeless people showing coronavirus symptoms are being given emergency shelter in shipping containers to self-isolate in Cardiff, while a hotel is being used to get people off the streets.

Cardiff council has announced a range of new measures to help people stay safe during the outbreak, including taking over the 41-bed OYO Hotel in Riverside, to use as homeless accommodation.

Shipping containers, in Ely and Butetown, are now also being used to house people living on the streets who are showing signs of potentially having the virus.

The council said it was working with refuge providers to try and address potential risks of people coming to contact in shared spaces, and it was in conversation with a number of hotel owners.

Council leader Huw Thomas said: “By providing fully-contained emergency accommodation, we are ensuring that rough sleepers who are showing symptoms of the virus are able to self-isolate like everybody else that needs to.

“We are still continuing to look at other buildings which we can temporarily take over to help the most vulnerable people in our society," he added.

“Our outreach team continues to do an excellent job in very challenging conditions and we are asking all those who are sleeping on the streets of Cardiff to come into the accommodation which is available for them.”

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Caravan parks, campsites, tourist hotspots and popular beauty spots will be immediately closed to visitors, the first minister has confirmed.

It means people will no longer be able to visit mountains such as Snowdon, Pen y Fan and the Sugar Loaf, which saw a large influx of visitors over the weekend.

“My message is simple. Please stay at home and save lives," Mark Drakeford said in a statement.

The new measures will not affect people living permanently in park homes.

Licensed premises such as pubs which continue to trade will risk losing their licence, the Welsh Government added.

The announcement was welcomed by the chief medical officer for Wales Dr Frank Atherton, who said it remained important to stay active but encouraged people to do so "closer to home".

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Police in Carmarthen have praised residents for staying indoors.

Their post on social media was accompanied by images showing the town looking completely deserted.

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A north Wales football club has defended its players after they were seen training together despite government advice on social distancing.

Elenid Ifans said she saw about 10 Bangor City players training on a football pitch in the village of Felinheli on Monday, and claimed they were putting the local community at risk.

Chris O'Neal, Bangor City's operations manager, said the players involved are from abroad, mostly Italy, and this has left the club with a problem during the virus outbreak.

But following the complaint, Mr O'Neal said the players have now been told not to train there again.

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Mid Wales water company Hafren Dyfrdwy has decided to shut its visitor sites to help limit the spread of coronavirus.

Lake Vyrnwy and Llyn Clywedog will be closed to visitors for the foreseeable future and all events and activities such as watersports will be cancelled.

The area was featured on last night's edition of Countryfile on BBC One.

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Farmers are calling for rules to be changed to stop people using public footpaths which cross over farmland as they try to get fresh air during the virus outbreak.

The Farmers' Union of Wales (FUW) is calling for the UK and Welsh Governments to act to protect food producers and rural communities.

The union says that people travelling to rural communities to self isolate, and those using public footpaths through farmland could put farmers and the food supply network at risk.

FUW President Glyn Roberts said while people thought the risk was low in the countryside compared to in cities, this was not necessarily the case on popular footpaths, where people were coming into contact at gates and stiles.

Caravan parks and campsites across Wales will be made to close, BBC Wales political correspondent reports.

Police are warning people to be extra cautious after fraudsters used the coronavirus crisis to try and scam people.

Action Fraud said that between 1 February and 18 March people had lost about £970,000 to scams about the virus.

Most of the incidents involved people ordering face masks and hand sanitiser online.

Gwent Police Cyber Crime team urged people to be extra cautious online.

Europe's biggest agricultural event is the latest casualty of the coronavirus crisis.

A leading Powys councillor is urging tourists to stay away from the rural county until the coronavirus crisis is over.

People may be stopped hiking up Snowdon if thousands continue to flock to the mountain during the virus outbreak.

Snowdonia National Park Authority said it had experienced its "busiest visitor weekend in living memory".

The authority is now working with police and councils to close down all main visitor car parks, and said it would look at shutting the most popular mountains and sites if people continued to ignore advice.

Chief executive Emyr Williams urged people to exercise at home, instead of heading to popular routes, to protect the community and health services in north Wales.

He said: "The crowds we saw on Snowdon and around key sites in Snowdonia over the weekend were alarming as it became evident people were not heeding the Government’s advice to avoid non-essential journeys and to maintain safe social distancing, therefore we must act quickly to ensure that this issue is addressed.

"Today we are taking action. Our priority in these challenging times must be to protect our rural communities and the vital and over-stretched health and emergency services."

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Pictures are being shared of queues outside McDonald's branches in Cardiff and Merthyr as people rush to get their last happy meal and chicken nuggets.

The fast food chain has said it will close all 1,270 of its restaurants in the UK by the end of Monday.

Rail passengers at Cardiff Central say the station is unusually quiet today, as people heed the advice to work from home.

A Newport newsagent says he is concerned elderly shoppers are risking their health to buy lottery tickets.

Pritpar Singh said he had been concerned that so many people in their 80s were still coming into his store on to buy non-essential items such as newspapers and lottery tickets.

Mr Singh said he had been advising them to self isolate and wants people to take the outbreak more seriously.

Monmouthshire council has closed household waste and recycling sites for the time being as "a matter of social distancing".

The council says collections will continue as normal and it is trying to catch up on any missed collections.

It has also made the decision to close all skate parks and children's play areas.

Holidaymakers have accused a cruise company of dumping them in the "worst coronavirus country in the world".

One Welsh couple were among the 1,454 people that left the ship on Sunday evening in Genoa - but claim they were "effectively dumped with an 11-hour wait" at Rome airport for a flight home after a six-hour coach journey from the port.

Italy has had more deaths than any other country in Covid-19 pandemic - its death toll from the virus now stands at 4,827, with 795 dying overnight.

"They effectively dumped us with an 11-hour wait in the worst country in the world for coronavirus," Julia Hann, 60, from Cardiff, told BBC Radio Wales.

Costa said the "complexity" of an "evolving scenario" was the reason.

Here's a breakdown of the 400+ confirmed coronavirus cases in Wales, although the figures are expected to be higher.

Here's a chart to show the number of cases being reported by date from Public Health Wales.

In an update on Monday, it said an additional 71 people had tested positive, taking the total to 418, although actual figures are likely to be higher.

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Bangor City Council has announced it will close Bangor Pier to the public as a result of the increasing spread of coronavirus.

The Grade II-listed Garth Pier will be closed from 16:30 today.

The council apologised for any inconvenience this may cause.

Frances Hughes, 74, who has been self-isolating at home in Merthyr Tydfil for more than a week, says she is astonished at the attention a video of her and her daughter has attracted online.It shows Melanie Lewis delivering food to her mother and being told to "leave it on the bin".Mrs Hughes says she’s happy her video has made people smile, but doesn’t think people are taking coronavirus seriously enough.

“I wish everyone else would use their heads and stay safe," she tells BBC Wales.