Welsh rugby star Leigh Halfpenny has thanked his "hero" sister and her colleagues at Morriston Hospital in Swansea where she works as a care assistant.

A neighbourhood policing team has closed down a gym in Bridgend after an anonymous tip off.

Owain Clarke
BBC Wales health correspondent

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Sixty further deaths have been reported to Public Health Wales (PHW) of people who have tested positive for Covid-19, taking the number of deaths reported here to 463.

The daily figure includes deaths in hospitals and may or may not include some deaths in community settings like care homes.

But the true death rate in Wales at this point will be higher.

But it’s a really confusing picture because Welsh Government ministers say the figures relate to hospital deaths but PHW told us it also includes some deaths recorded in community settings like care homes.

However, PHW says these are only the Covid-19 deaths they are formally told about.

The true picture can only emerge in a couple of weeks.

That’s because the total number of Covid-19 related deaths can only be determined when deaths are registered - a process that can take up to 14 days.

Those numbers are collected and published by the Office for National Statistics.

We saw the latest figures on Tuesday. These showed:

• 134 deaths were registered in Wales with Covid-19 mentioned in the week ending 3 April
• This is the lowest number of any nation or region, along with North East England
• This is 14.5% of all deaths registered in Wales
• 115 of these registered deaths in Wales occurred in hospital, nine were at home, eight in a care home and two in a hospice
• In total, 157 deaths with Covid-19 mentioned on the death certificate had been officially registered by 3 April

Care workers must get a pay rise in Wales to bring them in line with those in Scotland, the Welsh Liberal Democrats have said.

A total of 81 adult care homes in Wales have had one or more confirmed cases of coronavirus, according to Care Inspectorate Wales.

Last week the Scottish government adult social care workers would receive a pay rise to the real living wage of £9.30 per hour.

Now there are calls for the Welsh Government to follow the lead.

Leader of the Welsh Lib Dems Jane Dodds said the people of Wales owed care workers a "huge debt of gratitude.“

“Ministers must move swiftly to ensure care workers here in Wales don’t just the recognition they deserve but also the PPE and mental health support they need," she said.

Health Minister Vaughan Gething has said difficulties in obtaining PPE are not the result of the UK-wide procurement of the equipment, but due to a global change in the market which has affected both the availability and price of goods.

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Geraint Thomas has already reached his £100,000 fundraising target for the NHS - just over six hours into day one of his three-day ride.

The 2018 Tour de France winner is currently on the first of his three 12-hour stints on his static bike at home in Cardiff.

We've seen thank you messages chalked on pavements and trails of rainbows painted, sprayed and plastered in windows across the nation.

Now the owners of at hotel in Bala, Gwynedd, have picked up their gardening tools to express their appreciation to doctors and nurses.

Friends and partners at the Bala Lake Motel mowed giant NHS letters into the grass on the hill to say thank you.

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The data released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) gives us the best indication so far about how many lives are being lost to Covid-19 across England and Wales.

These are sobering statistics, external, setting new and unwanted records.

In the week ending 3 April, there were about 6,000 more deaths registered than in an average week and nearly 3,500 of them mentioned Covid-19 on the death certificate.

But some areas show that there are still weeks in January 2015 and January 2018 when the number of registered deaths was slightly higher than the most recent figures.

There were 920 deaths registered in Wales, compared with a record 1,031 set in the week ending 9 January 2015.

This was the month of a mortality "spike," believed to be associated with the flu vaccine not working as well and winter deaths in care homes.

The number of deaths varies from week to week, but for most of the year the variations are relatively small - it is only slightly higher or lower than the average.

Generally, there will be only one or two weeks in the year when there are significant variations, usually in the middle of winter, when seasonal flu is at its height.

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There have been 60 further coronavirus deaths in Wales, taking the number of deaths in Wales to 463.

Public Health Wales said there were also 272 new cases of Covid-19 in Wales, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 6,118.

Dr Giri Shankar, incident director for the outbreak response at Public Health Wales, said: “We offer our condolences to families and friends affected.

“We are aware that the number of deaths reported today is regrettably much higher than yesterday, however it is worth noting that day-to-day fluctuations are to be expected.”

Police had to clear a street in Pontypridd after discovering "far more people out and about today than expected".

South Wales Police has urged people to stay home.

Traffic Wales has shared pictures showing roads are quiet across south Wales today.

Police officers have been praised for helping a bus driver having a heart attack while on patrol in Barry.

The bus driver, 51, from Bridgend, had pulled over complaining of chest pains, South Wales Police said.

PC Westall, PC Roberts and PC Frost, helped the man out of the bus on Porthkerry Road, but he collapsed, and the officers used a defibrillator stored outside the police station to revive him.

When paramedics arrived they confirmed he was having a heart attack, and said the officers had saved his life, following the incident on Friday 3 April, the force said.

The bus driver was taken to the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, where he underwent surgery.

Ch Insp Tony Williams praised the three officers, saying: "Despite the current climate, our officers remain on the front line, responding to spontaneous incidents, serving communities and doing their very best to keep everyone safe."

We heard earlier about Reegan Davies, an eight-year-old girl from Port Talbot who has been collecting birthday cards for a 99-year-old Army veteran who raised more than £6m for the NHS.

Tom Moore had aimed to raise £1,000 by completing 100 laps of his Bedfordshire garden by Thursday.

And after exceeding all expectations, here is the moment Mr Moore discovered he had hit the remarkable new fundraising milestone of £5m live on BBC TV.

It is unhelpful to speculate when schools could reopen, Education Minister Kirsty Williams has said.

She told the daily press briefing: "I will only reopen schools when I have the advice from the chief medical officer and the chief scientific officer that it is safe to do so - I have not had that advice".

Schools in Wales were closed on 20 March to all but vulnerable children and the children of key workers.

Ms Williams added: "I really don't think it's helpful to speculate but we are doing the work that's required for schools to re-open when they are ready to do so."

She said when schools re-open it would not be business as usual "because of the social distancing guidelines, it might be the case that part of the cohort returns".

She added: "There are wider issues such as school transport, parents at the gate."

An initial additional £1.25m is being provided for school counselling services to deal with an anticipated increase in demand.

Education Minister Kirsty Williams said she expected the lockdown to lead to an increased demand for mental health support with children having concerns over the impact of the coronavirus on their health and their education,

She told a briefing: "With the necessary restrictions on how much time children can spend outdoors in order to halt the spread of the virus, we must also be prepared for an impact on children’s emotional wellbeing...

"We need to start addressing issues now, not store them up for after the lockdown."

Counselling sessions could be delivered remotely during the lockdown, she added.

Wales' Education Minister Kirsty Williams says she is particularly concerned about the impact school closures are having on the "more financially disadvantaged pupils".

She said much work was being done on providing education through digital platforms: "We are well placed to do this as a nation as we have world-class digital platforms available to all our learners and teachers in maintained schools."

She said she was working with schools and councils to address "digital exclusion" and making sure that learning opportunities were more widespread.

She said: "Let me be clear, we don't want, nor do we expect, parents to be formal teachers, but we do need to provide support for parents to help them help their children."

Schools in Wales will not reopen for statutory provision next week and a change to that is not imminent, says the Education Minister Kirsty Williams.

Speaking at the Welsh Government's daily coronavirus briefing, Ms Williams said it has been 28 days since "Wales led the rest of the UK in closing and repurposing our schools".

The minister said she wanted to thank all education and childcare staff for keeping provision open for the children of critical workers and vulnerable children during Easter and over weekends.

She said during the first week of the Easter holidays there were around 430 settings open, with around 2,700 children attending daily.

She said: "While I want to keep our children safe, I also want them to keep learning so that they can catch up as quickly as possible when schools re-open".

The 2020 Tour de France has been delayed until the 29 August according to cycling's governing body the UCI.

The race was due to run from 27 June to 19 July.

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The daily Welsh Government briefing on the coronavirus in Wales will start shortly.

Two women, who usually work in Cardiff council's offices, have saved the life of a homeless man just weeks after being redeployed as outreach workers.

The council said Val and Ashley gave the man first aid after he collapsed and stopped breathing.

Many people across the UK are unable to leave their home due to the coronavirus outbreak. So what happens if you have a dog that needs a daily walk?

The answer is a rapidly growing network of volunteer dog walkers.

The BBC's David Sillito has been talking to a charity that’s now coordinating a network to help vulnerable and isolated dog owners.