David Sims, 31, from Swansea has created 3D printed face masks for NHS workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

He has an order for 70 masks already and it asking for more requests.

"I'm currently locked in like everyone else and it was just my way of trying to help," Mr Sims said.

A high-voltage fault has cut power to residents staying indoors due to coronavirus in the Vale of Glamorgan.

Some 1,600 homes in the Cowbridge area are without electricity.

Western Power Distribution says it hopes to fix the fault by 16:30 GMT.

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An intensive care consultant has told how he was laid low by coronavirus - after catching it from a hospital colleague.

Dr David Hepburn, from the Royal Gwent Hospital in Newport, described being wiped out by the killer virus and sleeping for 18 hours a day - despite being "fit and well".

He told how many of the patients that end up in intensive care are not old and vulnerable, but are young and active.

The intensive care consultant made a heartfelt appeal to people to obey the lockdown rules and prevent the virus spreading further.

When Wyn Griffiths's wife went to hospital and realised there was an issue with opening doors during the coronavirus outbreak, he came up with a solution.

Mr Griffiths invented a hands-free door pull, to stop people having to touch door handles after using sanitiser.

The gadget is one of a number of innovations which have been developed by doctors, scientists and designers in Wales, to help during the pandemic.

BBC hospital dramas Casualty and Holby City are donating protective clothing and medical items to the NHS.

The shows - which are filmed in Cardiff - are joining BBC Scotland's River City in handing over items such as face masks and doctors' scrubs.

Simon Harper, executive producer of Casualty and Holby City, said: “We are only too happy to do what we can for the selfless real-life medics battling this situation."

Wrexham Fish Bar is having a closing-down sale to shift stock.

Even though they can stay open, they are not getting customers through the doors.

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The official advice is you should only travel to essential work if that cannot be done at home. What is classed as "essential work"?

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has given some examples and general principles, including:

• It is employers who should make decisions.
• Non-essential shops are now required to close along with cafes, bars and restaurants
• Key strategic sites that cannot easily be shut down such as steel works can continue to work if they can maintain safe distancing between staff, and safe operating numbers
• If it is possible for a staff member to work from home, they should do so

Beds in critical care units in Wales are 45% full, according to Wales' health minister.

Vaughan Gething said 15% of patients in the units are either suspected or confirmed Covid-19 patients.

He also outlined the action being taken to increase critical care provision during the coronavirus crisis.

In a statement in the Senedd he said: “We have plans in place to immediately double the number of critical care beds in Wales to just over 300.

“Extensive work is being undertaken to maximise the number of ventilated beds that can be provided in Wales including the purchase of over 600 additional ventilators and we continue to urgently explore further options.”

Mr Gething also revealed that he spoke to his mother on Sunday "through a closed kitchen window".

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New legislation giving Welsh ministers sweeping powers to act on coronavirus are reasonable and proportionate, Wales' health minister has said.

An unprecedented session of the assembly, with only 15 AMs in attendance, agreed to a bill drawn up to tackle the pandemic.

A nursing union has said some of its members are "very concerned" about supplies of personal protective equipment (PPE) for NHS staff in Wales.

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) called on ministers to give "urgent attention" to the issue.

Its director in Wales said the right equipment must be made available to protect staff from coronavirus.

The Welsh Government said it was distributing supplies to the NHS, with plans being made for social care too.

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There have been 17 deaths from coronavirus in Wales while there have been 478 confirmed Covid-19 cases here.

Now this is something to make a song and dance about... this Welsh brass band is ready to go viral!

Children's clothing firm Jojo Maman Bebe has closed all its 93 UK high street stores.

But the Welsh firm is keeping its operations warerhouse open to supply its online customers - but at a reduced capacity.

A third of its usual level of staffing are working at Jojo's headquarters in Newport as 80 of its 230-strong workforce are in work.

"We are trying to work out how many people we need to run our operations and to make sure it continues into the future," said founder and managing director Laura Tenison.

In the Senedd, AMs have given their consent to the coronavirus law, which is expected to be passed swiftly by the UK Parliament in Westminster.

The UK government has worked on the coronvirus legislation alongside the Welsh, Scottish and Northern Ireland administrations.

It provides sweeping measures, for up to two years, to help UK authorities tackle the coronavirus outbreak. It will need to be reviewed by Parliament every six months.

The new law would allow authorities to:

• Take people into or keep them in quarantine, or direct a person to attend a designated place
• Restrict or prohibit mass gatherings
• Close premises

The law also includes measures aimed at freeing up resources in public services.

Ministers will be able to instruct schools to close, or to remain open.

Powers will allow the redeployment of teachers to address shortages, remove standard ratios of staff-to-children requirements, and allow people to return more rapidly to the workplace.

In health and social care, the bill will allow ministers to state circumstances where DBS criminal record checks can be "disapplied".

Although it is UK legislation, which was examined by the House of Commons on Monday and will be considered by the Lords on Tuesday and Wednesday, its provisions for Wales meant that AMs had to give their formal permission through a legislative consent motion.

The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games have been postponed until next year because of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.

The event, due to begin on 24 July, will now take place "no later than summer 2021", the International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed.

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A business body has called for hardship fund to support self-employed people.

The Federation of Small Businesses in Wales wants the Welsh Government to help the country's 210,700 self-employed who they say currently have "little support under recently announced measures."

"UK Government has made some limited announcements to support self-employed individuals," said a statement.

"With a commitment to defer self-assessment and VAT bills and suspend the minimum income floor on universal credit."

Business leaders in north Wales have also called for urgent support for self-employed in the tourism, hospitality and manufacturing sector.

"In many cases their work has been wiped out," the North Wales and Mersey Dee Business Council said in a statement.

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This Cardiff chemist is using a novel approach to ensure social distancing between customers who are picking up prescriptions.

A couple rearranged their wedding and got married in just 24 hours in a bid to beat stricter measures brought in to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

The quick turnaround meant no guests were present at the wedding of Len, 64, and Carol Carter, 57, on Anglesey on Sunday.

The following day the prime minister banned gatherings including weddings.

Mrs Carter said it was a "completely unusual situation" but could not have gone better.

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Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asked for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to be postponed by a year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Abe said he has agreed the delay with International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach following talks earlier on Tuesday.

BBC sports editor Dan Roan says the IOC's Executive Board will approve the delay this afternoon.