The Welsh Blood service is holding blood donation sessions at the Swansea Grand Theatre.

The theatre has been shut since mid-March due to coronavirus.

"We have to really think about this year as the year we learned to live differently."

That's according to Dr Margaret Harris from the World Health Organization (WHO).

She told BBC Wales Today all the measures that stop Covid-19 from spreading should continue till a medical answer can be found.

"We do not have a vaccine and we do not have specific treatments, so if there's infection anywhere it's everywhere - it's going to come back," she said.

Dr Harris said it was extremely important that all normal health services continued during the pandemic.

"We're very concerned about the drop off in vaccincation [of babies] for instance," she added.

Dr Harris again reiterated the WHO's call for testing as much as possible in as many place as possible.

Speaking about the global picture, she said: "Some areas are less affected than others, so the crucial thing is knowing where your transmission is because that's where you need to focus your energy on separating the infected people from the healthy people.

"You want to be ready to do a lot of testing in a lot of places."

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More than 2,000 items are being dusted at Powis Castle in Welshpool in a mammoth spring clean during lockdown.

The National Trust’s house-and-collections team are pushing on with their cleaning regime to care for the historic site in Powys.

Chess pieces, chairs and Caesar busts are among objects and furniture in 117 rooms and corridors getting attention in the medieval castle.

With the property closed to further restrict the spread of coronavirus, a small team of essential workers will be "putting the house to bed" over the coming weeks.

“Putting the house to bed involves lightly dusting all objects and surfaces using specialist brushes, lint-free dusters and specialist vacuums to collect the dust," said Alex Turrell, the senior house and collections officer at Powis Castle.

“Items are then covered with ‘hats’ made from acid-free tissue paper and all furniture is covered with made-to-measure dust covers.”

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The Royal Mint at Llantrisant has announced it will be making 1.9 million medical visors for the NHS in England and Wales to help protect front line staff.

They were designed in consultation with staff at the nearby Royal Glamorgan Hospital and 150,000 have already been produced.

Anne Jessopp, chief executive of The Royal Mint, said: “When people think of The Royal Mint they think about the coins in their pockets, but we’ve been making useful products for the nation for 1,100 years and have a team of skilled designers, engineers and production staff.

"Together they turned a rudimentary visor design into a working model in just 48 hours, and within a week we were manufacturing thousands per day.”

Cardiff Bus will join a host of other organisations observing a minute's silence on Tuesday to pay tribute to key workers who have died while fighting Covid-19.

Trade unions, public authorities and First Minister Mark Drakeford have all said they will join tomorrow's silence at 11:00 BST.

"Where safe to do so, buses will pull over so that drivers can pay their respects," Cardiff Bus tweeted.

There will be no lifeguard patrols at beaches in Bridgend county borough during the Covid-19 pandemic, the council has warned.

It tweeted to remind the public that patrols at Coney Beach, Rest Bay, Pink Bay and Trecco Bay in Porthcawl were suspended until further notice.

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Home care workers have been thanked by Powys council for their "brilliant" work during the Covid-19 pandemic.

"We cannot say #ThankYou, external enough to the brilliant homecare workers working alongside us in Powys," the authority tweeted, external with an image of carers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE).

"Here are Lyndsey, Karen, Rita, Marie & Tracy of Affinity Homecare, a few of the many incredible key workers providing essential care & support to some of our most vulnerable residents."

Neighbourhood police from the South Wales force are patrolling the skate park at Brynifor Park, Mountain Ash, after youngsters were spotted using the facility.

The Welsh Government’s portal to allow key workers to book tests for coronavirus is expected to be available for more people this week, the First Minister has said.

Mark Drakeford said testing of the new system with the emergency services over the weekend “went well” but that it was a difficult “balancing act” to ensure.

The UK government’s online portal, which the Welsh Government has decided not to take part in, was overwhelmed by demand for their test booking system.

Wales is developing its own testing portal with Amazon Web Services.

In Monday’s Welsh Government briefing, the first minister said the system had been tested over the weekend in order to avoid it falling victim to a surge in demand similar to that in England.

He said: “It’s a difficult balancing act to get our system out there and operating, but on a basis where it won't come under such huge pressure immediately that it doesn't do the job we needed to do.”

There has been no let up for the police helicopters during lockdown.

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A health board has called on people to keep a "happy and healthy relationship" with alcohol despite the anxiety of the Covid-19 pandemic.

"During times of stress, such as these, it is especially important to try to maintain a happy and healthy relationship with alcohol," Cardiff and Vale Health Board tweeted.

It pointed to some hints and tips on ways for people to keep control of their drinking from Alcohol Change UK, external.

With today's daily update, Wales is now close to topping 800 deaths, but the figure only represents a snapshot.

They give an indication of the number of deaths, mostly in hospital, being reported daily by health boards to Public Health Wales.

Only people who have been positively tested - not just suspected of having Covid-19 - are counted and it only includes some deaths in care homes - those notified by health boards.

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More than £1,000 has been raised for a national charity fundraising campaign by North Wales Police's chief constable.

The 2.6 challenge was launched on Sunday - the day the 40th London Marathon was due to take place before it was postponed because of the coronavirus crisis.

The idea of the challenge - created to help cash-strapped charities during the pandemic - was to undertake any task connected to the number 26, the number of whole miles run in a marathon.

But Chief Constable Carl Foulkes took it a step further, taking part with a 126.26 mile indoor cycling challenge, to raise money for the Care of Police Survivors (COPS) charity

He said: “Thousands of fundraising events across the UK have been cancelled due to Covid-19, with a devastating impact on charity incomes.

"In this really difficult time I wanted to do something to support COPS, who do such a fantastic job in supporting those who have lost loved ones in the line of duty."

Another eight people in Wales are confirmed to have died with coronavirus - taking the total number to 796, Public Health Wales has said.

More than 20,000 people with the virus have now died in the UK.

Global confirmed cases of Covid-19 stand at more than 2.8 million, with close to 200,000 deaths.

More details about coronavirus cases and deaths in Wales can be found on the Public Health Wales website, external.

Another eight people in Wales are confirmed to have died with coronavirus - taking the total number to 796, Public Health Wales' latest figures show.

Aneurin Bevan in south east Wales is the health board area with the highest number of deaths - 220 - while Hywel Dda in mid and west Wales has had the fewest, with five.

More than 125,000 people in Wales are now helping researchers track the spread of Covid-19 after downloading an app to monitor people's health and identify trends across the country and beyond.

Caerphilly Council has resumed its grass cutting service today, concentrating on roundabouts and high speed roads.

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Another eight people in Wales have died with coronavirus - taking the total number to 796, Public Health Wales has said.

There have been 203 new cases, taking the total number of cases to 9,280.

A Newport councillor who was "liked by everyone" has died in hospital two weeks after contracting coronavirus, his family has said.

Mozadul Hussain, 63, a father of seven, who also owned a string of restaurants in Newport, died last Wednesday at the Royal Gwent Hospital.

He became the first Bangladeshi to be elected to Newport Council, which his son Kamal, 34, said had made him feel "very proud".

"He was a family-orientated man, but he also had a lot of time for his community and he dedicated time to his charities," said Kamal.

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Swansea University has successfully won funding to test quicker ways of cleaning ambulances after carrying Covid-19 patients.

Students from the university will test a new rapid-release gas treatment for ambulances, which could remove Covid-19 contamination from surfaces and the air, removing human cleaning intervention.

The solution aims to reduce the time taken to clean an ambulance from 45 minutes to under 20 minutes.

If trials are successful, it could also be rolled out for other blue light services, public transport and hospital wards.