Summary

  • Wales has spent 100 days in lockdown since businesses, shops and schools were closed to limit the spread of the virus

  • A man from Newport with a heart condition and diabetes tells how he has been targeted by three different Covid-19 scammers

  • Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveils plans to "build, build, build" the UK's way out of post-virus economic crisis

  • Paralympian champion Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson calls for a date when leisure centres in Wales should reopen, warning of the "social cost" of continued closure

  • On Tuesday, another three people with coronavirus were reported to have died in Wales, taking the official total to 1,510

  1. What do the latest lockdown rules say?published at 12:19 British Summer Time 30 June 2020

    Painted sign showing social distancingImage source, Getty Images
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    A pavement marking the way in Cardiff city centre

    In the coming days people in Wales will be able to do more as lockdown measures are eased.

    Current rules mean you must stay local, and can only meet relatives and friends outdoors from one household at a time.

    As of next Monday, 6 July, people in Wales can form "extended households" with one other household and can have physical contact and stay the night - the equivalent of the support "bubbles" introduced in England.

    Restrictions on travel will also be lifted, ending the five-mile guidance.

    Meanwhile children started going back to school this week in small groups.

  2. Boris Johnson: Plenty of things people will say we got wrongpublished at 12:10 British Summer Time 30 June 2020

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    Boris Johnson on government handling of coronavirus pandemic

    Boris Johnson has said that “discussion and honesty" is owned to the tens of thousands of people who have died of coronavirus in the UK, over his government's handling of the pandemic.

    But the prime minister said “some things went right, and empathically right”.

    He praised those who developed ventilators for hospitals, the furlough scheme, and the NHS and care workers who saved “so many lives including my own”.

    Mr Johnson made his comments as he gave a speech in Dudley announcing a plan to "build, build, build" a way out of a post-virus economic crisis.

  3. Bogus contact tracers 'asked me to pay £99 for a test'published at 12:06 British Summer Time 30 June 2020

    Fraudsters pretending to be Covid-19 contact tracers are calling people and demanding money for bogus tests.

    It is one of multiple coronavirus scams being used to target vulnerable people in Wales.

    Police say criminals are pretending to be from organisations including the World Health Organisation and Netflix.

    Stephen Jameson, 54, from Newport, who has been shielding because of a heart condition and diabetes, avoided falling victim to a bogus contact tracer who called to say he needed to pay £99 for a test.

    "He actually came over quite genuine, and the way they portrayed themselves, it was all the right sort of words," said Mr Jameson, a former computer programmer and call centre manager.

    The Welsh Government said genuine contact tracers would not ask anyone for bank details, tell people to dial premium rate numbers or provide medical advice.

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    How Stephen spotted the bogus test scammer

  4. Mal's 'miraculous' recoverypublished at 11:53 British Summer Time 30 June 2020

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    Coronavirus: 'Miracle Mal' Martin defies the odds

    In April 2020, Sue Martin told the BBC how her husband Mal had contracted Covid-19 and his chances of survival were almost zero.

    Nearly three months on, she now tells us Mal is possibly coming home this week.

    "All the medical staff say Mal was so close to death that his recovery can only be described as miraculous," says Sue, 49, from Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan.

  5. 'A rollercoaster of ill health, utter exhaustion and emotions'published at 11:35 British Summer Time 30 June 2020

    Almost five million people around the world are known to have recovered from coronavirus, external but the road to full health is not the same for everyone.

    For some, the effects of the virus last for months after catching it while doctors are also concerned about the long-term impact on the mind and body.

    NHS worker Sara Edwards, from Pembrokeshire, is 26 and was "fit and healthy" but has been ill with the coronavirus for more than 10 weeks.

    "I feel I have experienced a rollercoaster of ill health, utter exhaustion and a concoction of emotions," she writes in an article for the BBC.

    Sara EdwardsImage source, Sara Edwards
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    Sara Edwards: "I'm fit and healthy - why me?"

  6. Taking a different approachpublished at 11:20 British Summer Time 30 June 2020

    Felicity Evans
    BBC Wales political editor

    The most obvious political theme of the past 100 days has been the divergence in the four nations' approach to this crisis.

    The difference in approach between governments in Wales and England has caused confusion at times, but it has also done more than any other event in the past 20 years to increase people's understanding of devolution.

    It has also raised the profile of the first minister and Welsh Labour leader, Mark Drakeford, who had previously been struggling for visibility among Welsh voters.

    This matters because there's a Senedd election looming next May and an election is always the acid test in politics.

    Irrespective of how well or badly they think Mr Drakeford's government has handled the crisis, can we expect to see a higher turnout?

    In the 20 years of devolution in Wales, fewer than half of eligible voters have taken part in Senedd elections. This time around, voters know how much power Welsh ministers have over their daily lives, so will more of them want a say in deciding who to give that power to?

    Senedd Cymru - the Welsh ParliamentImage source, Getty Images
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    Coronavirus has shown the scope of devolution to let Wales to make its own decisions

  7. Good morningpublished at 11:14 British Summer Time 30 June 2020

    Welcome to our live coverage as Wales marks 100 days in lockdown.

    It was 23 March when Prime Minister Boris Johnson - and his counterparts in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland - announced unprecedented restrictions.

    Businesses and schools closed, millions of employees were furloughed and - for those who were not - working from home became the new normal.

    A coronavirus mask on a statue in Cardiff BayImage source, Getty Images
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    Face masks are now a common sight in day-to-day life