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Claims pasta is being sold by the handful in a shop in Swansea are being investigated by trading standards.

Shoppers have complained about being overcharged for everyday items in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak.

Reports include shops selling children's medicine for £10, the price of a loaf of bread being doubled to £3 and a pack of toilet roll to £8.50.

One shop was reported for selling individual toilet rolls from a multi-pack, increases in prices for paracetamol and rice and Halal meat in a shop soaring from £3 to £4 per kilogram to £11 per kilogram.

Councillor Mark Thomas said while most people and businesses were doing the right thing, people who overcharged or tried to make profit out of the crisis would be investigated.

“People will remember," he said.

"I will be absolutely honest, this will have a significant impact on the economy and not in an abstract way - on people's jobs and livelihoods," Mr Sunak said.

He says the job retention scheme - that sees people being furloughed from work and paid 80% of their wages by the government - combined with other government measures will "significantly help mitigate some of the impact".

Mr Sunak added: "If we weren't doing all the things we are doing, it would certainly be worse. We are doing the right things.

"I can't say there won't be hardship ahead, there will be... but everyone has a role to play and I am confident we will get through it."

Mr Sunak was asked about the the lockdown extension in Wales, and whether it was now inevitable this will happen UK-wide.

He said a review will be based on scientific evidence.

Mr Sunak said it would not be helpful to "speculate" on the future, and it was important people continued to stick to social distancing rules.

Angela McLean, chief scientific adviser at the Ministry of Defence, said this week will be "really important" in determining what happens.

Mr Sunak announces a new £750m pot of cash for frontline charities across the UK - including hospices and charities helping domestic abuse victims.

Mr Sunak says £360m will be directly allocated by UK government departments, while £370m will go to smaller charities, including through a grant to the National Lottery Community Fund, and £60m of that will go to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Mr Sunak says protecting health is the "absolute priority", but the government has also taken "unprecedented" measures to protect the economy.

He admits, however, that efforts to stop the virus will have a “significant impact" on growth - and that not every business can be protected.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak says news of the PM's hospitalisation "reminds us how indiscriminate this disease is" as "nearly everyone will known someone affected".

He adds: "This is a terrible virus that respects no boundaries... but we are not facing it alone."

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Wales' leading rugby players will take a 25% pay cut as the sport deals with the financial impact of coronavirus, it has emerged this evening.

The Professional Rugby Board (PRB), representing the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) and the four regions - Cardiff Blues, Dragons, Ospreys and Scarlets - reached the agreement with the Welsh Rugby Players' Association (WRPA).

The salary reduction, effective from 1 April, will last three months.

However, the cut will not apply to players earning £25,000 a year or less.

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The prime minister remains in intensive care "where his condition is improving", Chancellor Rishi Sunak says.

"He has been sitting up in bed and engaging positively with the clinical team," he added during a press conference at Downing Street.

Welshman Connor Reed has been explaining how it feels now that months of lockdown in Wuhan have ended.

The 25-year-old school teacher, from Llandudno, lives and works in the Chinese city where the coronavirus pandemic originated.

As China lifts its final restrictions in the city, Mr Reed has been describing how it feels for months of lockdown to end.

The NHS is running training courses at Swansea City’s Liberty Stadium for new and returning healthcare workers preparing to join the fight against coronavirus.

Newly registered nurses, new healthcare support workers, clinical staff and medical students are among those on induction programmes with the Swansea Bay University Health Board.

“We are grateful to the Liberty Stadium for allowing us to use their facilities and are focused on ensuring our staff are as prepared as possible for the vital roles they will play,” Lynne Jones, head of nursing education, told the football club's website.

The club's chairman Trevor Birch said: “We offered the Liberty Stadium to the NHS and the emergency services during the early days of the crisis and we are delighted we are able to assist them in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.”

Welsh Assembly member Alun Davies has written an emotional blog post, external after collapsing with a cardiac arrest last Friday.

He said the post was not about politics but: "It’s about me.

"Or perhaps to be brutally accurate it’s about my death."

The former Welsh Labour minister, who is 56, says he enjoys running in Bute Park, Cardiff, and above Trefil, near Tredegar, in his Blaenau Gwent constituency.

On Friday, he was planning a jog at the former quarry in Trefil, but ran in Cardiff instead.

"That unthinking decision saved my life," he said.

He describes having little memory of Friday, and still doesn't remember stopping to speak to friends before collapsing.

"It turns out that I had suffered a cardiac arrest. At that moment my heart had simply stopped beating. It had ceased to function," he says in the blog.

"The most reliable pump that nature has ever constructed simply stopped working.

"There was no notice. No pain. I had no indication either during the day or previous days that there was anything wrong. I felt fine.

"I actually thought that it was a pretty good run. No record-breaker but not overly difficult either."

His friends called 999, started CPR and found a defibrilator, before paramedics arrived to "restart my heart", he said.

The Labour AM said he had "no real memory" of anything that happened on Friday night or all day Saturday.

Writing the blog from his hospital bed, he said: "We all talk about the NHS and it may well have its faults, but at a time when it is dealing with the biggest health crisis in our lifetimes it can also save the life of an overweight middle-aged man with a vision of himself as a championship middle-distance runner."

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Three former care homes in Bridgend county borough are being refurbished to provide extra bed capacity amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The local authority and Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Board are working with the owners of Ty Llynfi and Hyfrydol in Maesteg, and Abergarw Manor in Brynmenyn.

Around 150 additional recovery beds will be provided so the Princess of Wales Hospital can focus on treating patients who need acute medical care.

Council leader Huw David said: “We are very thankful for the generous help and support we have received from businesses in the community.

"Without them we would struggle to provide the necessary additional bed capacity for people recovering from coronavirus."

The three locations will be opened and brought into use as needed over the coming weeks, Mr David added.

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While the Welsh Government today said restrictions on movement will not be relaxed next week, UK ministers have yet to confirm their view on extending the three-week lockdown.

BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg examines the dilemmas they face as they decide what to do next.

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Local Government Minister Julie James revealed at the Welsh Government's daily coronavirus briefing that restrictions on movement would continue next week, beyond the initial three-week lockdown.

She also said supermarkets now had all the information they needed to prioritise food deliveries to vulnerable people, but she warned that due to the level of demand particular delivery slots could not be guaranteed.

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The Welsh Rugby Union says work is "progressing at pace" on the 2,000-bed field hospital which is to be sited at the Principality Stadium, as well as the centre at the WRU National Centre of Excellence building at the Vale Resort in Hensol.

"I know I’ve said this before, but the positive attitude of staff at these venues has been truly heartwarming and they are a credit to Welsh rugby, as are the rugby club members around the country who are proving to me that our game can and will survive all that is thrown at it," said WRU chief executive Martyn Phillips.

The WRU says the Principality Stadium hospital will soon have a name of its own.

Swansea council says it is urgently seeking paid carers to help support older and vulnerable people during the coronavirus pandemic.

The council is especially keen on people with experience of the care sector, but will train those with little or no experience.

Mark Child, cabinet member for adult services, said: “We are here for Swansea and older people and the most vulnerable in our communities have never needed their council more.

“Any help in providing care you can give will be hugely appreciated and could help the NHS save lives.”

Politicians from across the globe are turning to Wales to learn how to create their own virtual parliament.

Last week's virtual meeting of the Welsh Assembly was the first of its kind in the UK.

Elin Jones, presiding officer, said representatives from Westminster, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, Ireland and the Scottish Parliament, had been in touch to find out about the "virtual Senedd".

“There's a real appetite to see how we went about holding this kind of senedd and it's possible that we'll see some of these parliaments following suit or learning from us in Wales," Ms Jones told BBC Radio Wales.

“What we managed to do as well, and this was even more of a technical challenge, was to hold and broadcast our meeting in two languages.”

The Football Association of Wales [FAW] is preparing to furlough some staff in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.

An FAW source said it was looking at the measures to "protect the future of football in the country".

The initiative will also see some employees of the FAW Trust, which is responsible for Wales' burgeoning reputation for coaching and player development, placed on furlough leave. The process is currently ongoing.

Another 33 deaths linked to coronavirus in Wales have been confirmed, the biggest daily total announced since the outbreak began.

The total now stand at 245 deaths and 4,073 confirmed cases, although Public Health Wales says the true number will be higher as not everyone has been tested.

Public Health Wales has confirmed another 33 deaths and 284 new cases of coronavirus in Wales, taking the totals to 245 deaths and 4,073 cases.

This map shows the number of cases in each local authority area, shaded according to the rate of infection per 100,000 people.