North Wales Police has shared pictures of empty roads and thanked people for staying home.

An intensive care consultant who was laid low by coronavirus has recovered and is back at work.

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 believes he caught the virus from a hospital colleague.

Llio Rowlands is one of many workers at Anglesey council who has been redeployed.

She usually works as a tenant participation officer in housing services but is now supporting local food banks.

Ms Rowlands said: “The food bank is a vital resource to many people at the moment and is helping those in crisis get vital supplies such as food and toiletries.

"Demand for the service has grown significantly in the past two weeks - [we're] ensuring that everyone who’s registered with the food bank has enough supplies.”

Council leader Llinos Medi said: “This is a challenging period for all and I’m proud to see our workforce come together to support the island’s communities."

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A construction company that stepped in to move a bed so a patient could be discharged from hospital has been thanked by the council.

People in Monmouth left this cheerful sight for their refuse collectors.

Ceredigion council says all but one of its public toilets are open.

It was responding after a Gwynedd councillor claimed public conveniences had been closed in the two counties to try to limit the spread of the virus.

Mike Stevens, who represents Tywyn, raised the case of an elderly woman in his area who had been treated for dehydration after not drinking anything for hours before a hospital appointment in Aberystwyth, as she was worried she would not find any toilets open during the journey.

Ceredigion council said the only one of its public toilets that had been closed was the one near the bandstand on Aberystwyth seafront.

A group of drone experts is calling on the UK government to relax regulations on chemical spraying from the air during the coronavirus pandemic.

It wants to train drone pilots from the emergency services to spray public areas with disinfectant.

It has been done in China and India - but aerial spraying is largely banned in Europe.

The drones can cover large areas - but there is debate around whether the method is effective.

The Department of Health and Social Care said it had no plans to disinfect outside on a large scale, saying experts had advised it "would not be an effective use of resources".

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The lockdown is starting to work, says the director of public health and strategic partnerships at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, Sarah Aiken.

But she warns of "a very difficult three weeks ahead".

People are preparing to take part in the second UK-wide clap for carers tonight.

Last Thursday at 20:00, millions of people took to their doorsteps to salute NHS and care workers dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.

Ruth Raha from Bridgend will be clapping for her husband, a consultant at the Princess of Wales Hospital and took past in last week’s clap.

She told BBC Radio Wales Breakfast with Claire Summers: “The wonderful thing about it was we could hear people from other parts of the estate, so it was very emotional."

Bami Adenipekun, a charity ambassador for Maggie's cancer centre in Swansea, said: "I'm clapping for all the clinicians who looked after me both in Morriston Hospital and in Singleton Hospital as well as my friends who are nurses and doctors.

"Without the NHS I couldn't have had the care that I needed."

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The CEO of Sport Wales, Sarah Powell, says a cash injection for community sport is great news and much needed.

On Wednesday, emergency funding of £400,000 was announced by the Welsh Government.

£200,000 is available to provide support to not-for-profit sports clubs and this is being match-funded with £200,000 from Sport Wales.

Ms Powell says: "We must ensure the great network of local clubs are not lost. These will be needed more than ever when we get through this crisis."

British Transport Police share pictures of an empty Pontypridd train station, adding it is "nice to see people listening".

Abergavenny Food Festival is asking people to support their local food producers during the crisis.

With people self-isolating unable to go to supermarkets and delivery slots at the big stores hard to come by, many are turning to their local milkman and veg box schemes.

The Welsh Government says:

• From next week there will be capacity for 1,100 tests a day
• By mid-April, up to 5,000 tests a day will be provided to people admitted to hospitals with suspected coronavirus, frontline NHS staff and people classed as extremely vulnerable
• A further 4,000 tests a day will be available as part of a four-nation deal for the UK

Key workers at a school hub in Monmouthshire were thrilled to receive Easter eggs from retailer WH Smith.

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An intensive care consultant in the area of Wales at the heart of the coronavirus outbreak says it is a "lottery" who contracts the illness.

Dr Ami Jones works for the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board, which has seen the most Covid-19 cases in Wales.

She said it is "scary" how young people are being affected, as well as elderly and vulnerable people.

"This virus doesn't care who it affects - it's a real lottery," she said.

"I've seen very fit young people contract this illness and end up on ventilators in intensive care.

"So please don't take the risk of making unnecessary trips or trying to interact with people.

"I'm not seeing huge numbers of elderly or vulnerable people. They seem to be heeding the message and staying at home.

"But the youngest person we've admitted to intensive care was in their early 20s while I'm regularly seeing people in their 30s and 40s.

"You look at these people and think they don't look too bad, but you put a saturation probe on their fingers and their oxygen levels 70, when they should be 100. It's scary because they're actually very sick."

Economy Minister Ken Skates says the financial impact of coronavirus will be at least as bad as the economic crisis of 2008.

But speaking on BBC Radio Wales, he added: “Once we’re through this we’ll be able to continue business.

“If you had a good business in 2019, you’ll have a good business in 2021."

He says there are financial packages available for most businesses but he is concerned about “gaps” including the lack of support for people who had been self-employed for less than a year.

He says the Welsh Government is “working tirelessly” to sort this issue out.

More than 1,000 NHS workers in Wales been tested for coronavirus, the Welsh Government says.

The latest figures for England reveal 2,000 out of about 500,000 frontline staff have been tested so far.

The Welsh Government says it began testing its staff on 18 March and now has plans to “significantly increase testing of healthcare workers".

The NHS in Wales employs 94,614 people.

Wales Air Ambulance has thanked BP for its "incredible generosity" after it provided the charity with free fuel.

Arts centres which have closed due to the coronavirus outbreak may not reopen, it has been warned.

"It's going to be very difficult for us to be able to sustain our business," says Elin Wyn, chairwoman of trustees of Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff.

"We're an organisation that has only a small amount of public funding - 18% of our funding is from the Arts Council of Wales and 82% we generate ourselves.”

It comes after the Welsh Government and Arts Council for Wales revealed a £7m fund to help the sector through the crisis.

The fund will “support individual artists and arts organisations, who are in most urgent need and who are least likely to benefit from other support programmes,” the Welsh Government says.

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A woman who has chronic lymphocytic leukaemia says she still has not received a shielding letter from the Welsh Government and is "really angry about it".

Letters are being sent to Wales' "most vulnerable people" advising them to stay indoors for 12 to 16 weeks.

Angela Streatham, who received her diagnosis four years ago, is self-isolating at home in Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant in Powys.

She told Claire Summers on BBC Radio Wales Breakfast: "We're all very anxious and [not having the letter] is exacerbating that anxiety...

"For some people who haven't received their letter, they're not doing the shielding they should. So I'm very concerned.

"There will be high-risk vulnerable people out there who are elderly, don't have the internet to know this, but will have heard that England have got these letters - and they will be thinking 'well, I haven't got a letter', so they might be carrying on their business and exposing themselves to risk and I think it's reckless."