This is the end of today's live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic in Wales.

Following today's press conference we have learnt:

• The Welsh Government is actively considering how to stop people living in Covid hotspots in England coming to Wales
• Health Minister Vaughan Gething says there is "no evidence" the virus is spreading in schools, as a whole year group and 24 staff members at a school in Cardiff have been told to self-isolate
• There have been 596 new coronavirus cases confirmed in Wales
• No further people have died with the virus, meaning the total remains at 1,630, according to Public Health Wales figures

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During the press briefing today, Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the Welsh Government was considering bringing in rules to actively stop people in Covid hotspots travelling into Wales.

Here is what he said:

With 192.3 cases per 100,000 people in the past seven days, Merthyr Tydfil has the worst rate of coronavirus in Wales.

In the past week, 116 people have tested positive for the virus in the area.

Of the 1,823 people tested in the past seven days, 10.5% tested positive.

The area with the highest number of new daily coronavirus cases is Cardiff, Public Health Wales figures show.

On Monday, 91 new cases were confirmed in the capital, bringing the seven-day case rate up to 113.7 per 100,000 people.

In Rhondda Cynon Taf, 77 new cases were confirmed, and in Swansea there were 59 new cases.

No area recorded zero new cases, but Conwy had the lowest number of new cases with four.

A further 596 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed in Wales, according to the latest figures.

It brings the total number of positive cases since the start of the pandemic to 26,447.

On Monday, no new deaths were reported, according to the figures published by Public Health Wales.

It means the total number of deaths remains at 1,630.

A helpline has been set up for people after 13 patients died following an outbreak of coronavirus at a hospital.

By Friday, 94 cases had been linked to the outbreak of Covid-19 at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital in Llantrisant, Rhondda Cynon Taf.

Planned surgeries have been temporarily stopped and non-Covid patients are due to be moved to a field hospital.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg health board said restrictions would remain until the virus was contained.

A whole school year group and 24 staff members are self-isolating after a number of positive coronavirus tests.

There were six cases among pupils at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Plasmawr, Cardiff, and with five of these in year eight (ages 12 to 13), it was decided the whole year group should self-isolate.

Two teachers and a learning support assistant also tested positive.

Years seven and nine are attending on alternative days for two weeks because of reduced staffing.

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Like a lot of new mums, Leonie Williams wanted to breastfeed her baby as the advice she had was "breast is best".

But like many newborn babies, little Marley found it tough and Leonie "struggled" to get professional support as the Covid-19 crisis gripped the UK.

A new study has suggested 30% of breastfeeding mums gave up before they wanted to during lockdown because of a "lack of face-to-face support".

The Welsh Government urged women with concerns to talk to maternity staff.

Swansea University researchers said some health visitors were redeployed to help the NHS in its fight against coronavirus in March while house visits were stopped as the UK went under lockdown and "vital" breastfeeding support groups shut.

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Explore the data on coronavirus in the UK and find out how many cases there are in your area.

A joint approach is taken by health officials, the Welsh Government and local authorities to assess how, when and where an area may need to face additional restrictions.

Officials want to know two things - the rate of infection and the percentage of positive tests coming back in a community.

• An area will be placed on a watch list when cases hit 15 per 100,000 of the population over a seven-day period. Health officials and local authorities will meet to discuss the situation
• Amber: When an area hits about 25 cases per 100,000 and 2.5% of tests are positive, it is considered to be in an amber warning stage. Officials will want to establish whether there is a pattern to the cases. Is this an isolated cluster or wider community transmission?
• Red: As cases approach 50 per 100,000, with a 5% positive test rate, an area moves to the stage where active intervention will be considered - such as local lockdown restrictions

One of the key questions for health officials is identifying wider community transmission, and wider risk factors.

The Welsh Government is looking at how to stop people in England living in Covid hotspots travelling to Wales.

Last week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson ruled out imposing travel restrictions on people in England living in areas subject to local lockdown restrictions.

"I don't want to impose travel restrictions within the UK generally," he said.

"We are all one country, people should exercise their common sense.

"They should follow the guidance. And that's what we're going to do."

Stopping people living in Covid hotspot areas in England travelling to Wales is a "dangerous slope", the Welsh Conservatives have said.

Mr Gething has said the Welsh Government is looking at what to do to prevent people from areas under lockdown restrictions travelling to holiday in Wales.

Welsh Conservatives' health spokesman Andrew RT Davies said with about "80% of Wales' population under lockdown" the move was a "dangerous slope to go down".

He added: "If you start introducing such quarantine restrictions in Wales does that mean then there's a quid pro quo that England, Scotland and Northern Ireland will start doing the same for Welsh residents?

"There are all sorts of questions to be answered before you even entertain implementing such dramatic action."

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The Welsh government is still waiting to know how a glitch which resulted in 16,000 tests going unreported will affect Wales.

Mr Gething says delays at the UK government-run ighthouse labs largely affected cities in England.

But he said he had asked his team to "check what the position is" but as yet they "haven't had all the answers".

It has emerged that a technical glitch has meant nearly 16,000 cases of coronavirus went unreported last week, which has delayed efforts to trace contacts of people who tested positive.

Mr Gething said: "I do want to make clear what the actual position is with whether we're still awaiting data and what that then means.

"But we are seeing all those cases that are being reported are going into our own contact tracing system.

"So, all the information we have is being followed up, but naturally I'm concerned about the potential for people who have tested positive, not knowing about that result and crucially in contact tracing terms as not being able to track down their contacts in the way we have successfully managed for a number of months."

The health minister says there is no evidence to suggest pupils are spreading Covid-19 within schools.

Mr Gething says cases so far have "taken place outside of the school" or between "adults working in the school".

Speaking at the Welsh Government's press conference, he says more than "eight out of 10 schools in Wales haven't had a case of coronavirus".

On schools sending whole year groups home to self-isolate, he added: "That's a challenge about how successful each school is in getting people to maintain social distance or to have in-school bubbles, so if a whole year group is mixing then a positive case means a whole year group needs to isolate.

"That's why the efforts of school leaders and local authorities have gone to to try to create an environment where people don't mix across and within year groups where possible and for staff to follow the rules on social distancing at work are really important.

"I am comfortable it's been the right thing to do."

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Mr Gething says the Welsh Government is "actively considering” quarantine restrictions for people travelling from high-risk areas in England into Wales.

People living in locked down areas of Wales can only leave with a "reasonable excuse", but there is no equivalent rule elsewhere in the UK.

It means people from locked down areas of England can holiday anywhere in Wales not under local restrictions.

Last week Prime Minister Boris Johnson refused to impose travel restrictions on those living in parts of England with high Covid cases, saying the UK was all one country.

Mr Gething says the Welsh Government is considering how to use its power to protect areas of lower cases.

He says ministers are "actively considering" what to do to prevent people from high-risk areas in England travelling into Wales.

But he said there was "no good reason" to prevent someone from a low incidence area such as Devon travelling to Pembrokeshire.

Mr Gething says the Welsh Government is "very clear we want children back in school learning alongside their classmates".

He says schools, teachers and local authorities worked really hard over the summer "to make that happen".

"More than eight out 10 schools [82%] in Wales have not had any cases of coronavirus since the start of the autumn term.

"We’ll continue to do all we can to make sure it’s safe to keep children in school because it is better for their long-term health and wellbeing to be in school with other pupils and their friends than to be missing out on another term of lessons."

Coronavirus cases have increased "rapidly" across Wales in the past month, the health minister says.

Mr Gething says the virus returned as people came home from holiday abroad and was spread as people socialised without social distancing.

"The majority have had a mild illness so far.

"But an increase in cases is followed within two to three weeks by higher hospital admissions, higher critical care admissions and more deaths."

He said last week, an average of 73 people a day were admitted to hospital with coronavirus.

"The number of people in hospital with coronavirus has almost doubled in the last fortnight and, very sadly, the number of people who are dying is increasing week on week.

"It is very easy to forget what things were like just six months ago, when around 150 people were admitted to hospital a day with coronavirus and our intensive care units, including the additional capacity the NHS created, were close to being overrun.

"If we can’t control the spread of this virus locally, we will see this happening again."

Health Minister Vaughan Gething says local lockdowns were introduced to control the spread of Covid as it has "re-established a much larger foothold in our towns, villages and cities".

About 2.3 million people are living under restrictions after local lockdowns were imposed in large parts of north and south Wales.

But Mr Gething, speaking at the Welsh Government's coronavirus briefing, says the number of cases continues to increase.

"Sadly, there have already been more than 2,500 deaths involving coronavirus. People continue to die from coronavirus in Wales.

People in Wales should "get ready" for rolling lockdowns over the winter months, Wales' chief medical officer has said.

Dr Frank Atherton said Wales could be "going in and out of those restrictions over the next few months".

Local lockdown areas now cover 2.3 million people.

Speaking to BBC Radio Wales' Breakfast programme, Dr Atherton said the worst thing would be for restrictions to be lifted too early.

"If the number of cases per 100,000 over a seven-day period comes down to below the 50 per 100,000 level, we can start to think with the local authority, in partnership with them about lifting the restrictions.

"The worst thing is to lift them too early."