That's it from our live coverage of the Welsh Government's update on the pandemic. Here are the main developments:

• More than 362,000 people have now had their first coronavirus jab (11.5% of the population) in Wales, with second doses to be rolled out from 22 February
• There were 29 newly-reported deaths and 546 new cases on Friday
• A phased reopening of schools is planned to start on 22 February, starting with the youngest primary school pupils
• From Saturday, people are allowed to exercise outdoors with one person from another household
• About 500 people from Wrexham took part in a trial of a fourth Covid vaccine which showed 89% effectiveness in initial trials

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First Minister Mark Drakeford called on people in Wales not to "exploit" slight changes to lockdown rules, which include allowing two people from different households to exercise outdoors together.

He said it had prompted a "very lively debate" among ministers and chief advisors discussing the scope to relax the Level Four restrictions.

"There will be some people who once they can do one thing, want to push that, want to lean on the rules, game the system," he said.

"In the end, our conclusion was that, where we could, to make very minor easements but easements which can be very important to some people, we should do that.

"If you think this is an excuse to push the rules, to do more than is allowed, all you do is delay the day when we can lift other restrictions for us all.

"I've referred previously to small acts of selfishness, and it would be a small act of selfishness to try and exploit the very modest steps that we are able to provide today.

"When people do that, they let themselves down and they let other people down as well."

Almost 500 people from the Wrexham area took part in a trial that gave interim results of a new vaccine called Novavax having 89% effectiveness against the virus.

The study was a collaboration between Public Health Wales, Health and Care Research Wales and Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, with people recruited within a 30-mile radius of the town.

In total, 15,000 volunteers were recruited UK-wide.

Dr Orod Osanlou, Public Health Wales' principal investigator for the Novavax trial, said: “Even though these are just interim results, it’s promising to see we’re moving in the right direction to hopefully secure the fourth vaccine to help fight against Covid-19 and start saving lives.

“We had such a phenomenal response to our request for trial participants in north Wales and we’re thankful to everyone for selflessly donating their time - without those individuals we wouldn’t have been able to have achieved these results."

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People who have already had their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine will be invited for their second jab from 22 February, the first minister said.

"Starting from the 22 February it'll be a rolling programme - those who have been vaccinated first will get their second vaccine first, and so on," Mark Drakeford said.

Out of more than 360,000 people in Wales to have been vaccinated so far, 717 have already had a second jab.

Wales' first minister has said it's “preferable” for politicians to follow the lockdown rules when they make the rules themselves.

Mark Drakeford was commenting on a trip made by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Scotland earlier this week, which was criticised by some including Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon for being “not essential”.

The first minister told journalists he had only left Cardiff twice since November and was only leaving his home or place of work “in a genuine emergency”.

He said: “We are at level four of a public health emergency, and on the whole, I think it is preferable for people who make rules that we expect other people to follow, to observe them ourselves.”

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Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford has rejected a call by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer for all teachers and support staff to be vaccinated using "the window" of the February half term.

Sir Keir made the call in relation to England at this week's Prime Minister's Questions.

"I take a different view here in Wales," the Labour first minister said.

"When you're in government you have to rely on the advice of those people who are appointed to give you that advice."

Mr Drakeford said the advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) "continues to be that we should prioritise those people who are on those nine groups" recommended to be vaccinated first.

"When the JCVI changes its advice we will follow the new advice," he said.

Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price said new data from the Office for National Statistics suggested the fall in infections in Wales was levelling off.

However, he added: “We need to be very, very careful.

"In fact we probably need to be looking at what things we could possibly be doing in order to drive down those levels further - for instance, helping people isolate, getting the right level of money to people.

"Too many people are being refused the self-isolation support, and it’s not at the level which enables people to isolate as they would wish.”

The first minister said he wants “everything to be on the table” in discussions to determine the safest way of sending children back to school in Wales.

Mark Drakeford said that a variety of approaches were being looked at, adding he would prefer to rule nothing out at this stage.

“We have a common aim of getting as many children as safely as possible back into the classroom," he said.

"That’s what our teachers want, and that’s what parents and children want as well.

“Whether it is reduced groups of people, whether it is part-weeks for some children, whether it is different use of the physical estate, whether it’s a contribution that testing can make to it, I want the longest possible list of solutions to the issues."

Mr Drakeford warned that while it would be his aim to resume face-to-face teaching as early as possible, the fast-changing nature of the virus meant that plans could have to be revised.

“I wish I could tell you when I thought all children would be back, but even three weeks is a very long time with this virus,” he said.

“When it is safe to do so we will bring more children back, and I’d like to see it build up as quickly as it is safe to do so, but you can only judge that in the circumstances at the time."

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First Minister Mark Drakeford was cautious when asked whether activities like golf could restart in Wales in light of the relaxation on meeting another person for exercise.

“The problem is those things all add up cumulatively," he said.

"Every bit that you do creates new opportunities for people to get together and when people get together, coronavirus thrives.

"So tough as it is, and frustrating as it is for many people, we’re still at a point in the pandemic where doing the minimum to get together is the right thing to do.

"If we continue to be on the right track, then in three weeks time, maybe we will be able to make some response to those people who make special cases for other forms of activity."

More than a third of a million people in the top priority groups have been given their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine in Wales so far.

The aim is to have just under three-quarters of a million people, including health workers and people over 70, given a first dose by mid-February.

The daily numbers show 122,412 of the over-80s - 66.9% - have now received a first dose.

Meanwhile, just over 73% of care home residents have had their first dose. There is a little overlap between the two groups in these figures.

In addition, nearly 77% - that's nearly 27,500 - care home workers have received a vaccine dose.

The other key priority group is healthcare workers, with 107,364 of them so far given a vaccine dose.

The latest daily figures, however, show the total receiving a first dose up to Thursday night was 362,253 - and the rate has jumped to 11.5% of the population.

If this latest daily rate was maintained, the mid-February target for reaching four priority groups, including the over-70s, would be met by 12 February, although at the current daily seven-day average it would take a few days longer.

First Minister Mark Drakeford said the Welsh Government would not rely on a "crude" single piece of data to decide whether to confirm plans to start fully reopening schools from 22 February after half term.

Ministers would look at many indicators, he said.

That included the "very important threshold of the number of people suffering from coronavirus", the positivity rate from testing, and the numbers of people being admitted to hospital, as well as "the mitigation measures that we are able to put in place in schools".

"We will make a judgement in the round and we will make it in partnership with our colleagues in the local education authorities and the unions who represent all those people who work in our schools," the first minister added.

A teachers' union leader has said schools in Wales should only reopen fully when it is safe to do so, claiming the announcement of "arbitrary dates" was "profoundly unhelpful".

Dr Patrick Roach, general secretary of the NASUWT, was commenting on the first minister’s announcement that schools in Wales could start to reopen for younger pupils from 22 February.

"It is essential that the Wales national lockdown restrictions are supported fully in order to reduce the rates of virus transmission in the wider community and in order to ensure that schools can reopen fully as soon as it is safe to do so whilst minimising the risks to public health," Dr Roach said.

“It is important that the majority of children and young people in all schools are now supported to stay at home and that teachers also work from home to provide support for children’s learning remotely.

“The Welsh Government must deliver urgently extra support to families during the lockdown, many of whom are experiencing very serious financial difficulties at this time.

“Given previous experience, the announcement of arbitrary dates for schools to reopen to all pupils can be profoundly unhelpful to parents and to those working in schools.

"However, a clear plan for how schools will be fully reopened whenever the lockdown restrictions are lifted remains a key question which the Welsh Government must now work urgently and openly with the profession to address, and I welcome the commitment from the First Minister to work with the education unions on this.”

Wales' first minister has called for "simple, calm negotiation" in the ongoing row between the European Union and drug-maker AstraZeneca over vaccine supplies.

Mark Drakeford said it was better "to take the temperature out of the difficulties rather than adding to them".

The European Commission has published its contract with AstraZeneca over the drug company's decision to reduce supplies to the EU.

Speaking at the Welsh Government's press conference, Mr Drakeford said: "I don't think threats are ever a good way of arriving at a conclusion.

"What needs to happen here is simple, calm negotiation and discussion.

"Everybody is anxious to get a supply of the vaccine, everybody wants to do the best by their local populations.

"The companies and where governments are involved, getting around the table, having those discussions, coming to an agreement."

There is “unlikely to be much headroom” for further coronavirus restrictions in Wales to be lifted at the time of the next review, according to the first minister.

Mark Drakeford said that despite falling case rates, the gradual reopening of schools was likely to be the only major change to rules in the coming weeks.

“There’s unlikely to be much headroom at the end of the next three weeks for other things to reopen,” he said.

“If things were to continue in the direction they are now, where things are going well, then more headroom may emerge in the month of March."

He said that changes with the spread of the virus could happen quickly, and that it would be difficult to predict when restrictions could start to be eased in the longer term.

“We could be blown off course by things that we know nothing about today,” Mr Drakeford said.

“I think it’s sensible for people to look at what we can achieve in the next three weeks and the three weeks beyond, but I think it’s just looking into the tea leaves to think we can predict the future beyond that."

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Wales' first minister says he “understands the anxieties” teaching staff might have in returning back to the classroom.

Mark Drakeford said the Welsh Government would "do everything" it could to work with teachers and unions to make sure the workplace was “as safe as it can be” before they return to school.

“We have to work together on this agenda, because we have a common aim of trying to repair the damage that has been done to the education of our young people during the 12 months that has just gone by”, he said.

“I look to all of those who share that ambition to come round the table and make those plans together."

Rules allowing people in Wales to exercise in a public outdoor place with others in their household or support bubble are being amended on Saturday to allow exercise with one person from another household, the Welsh Government has confirmed.

"If you choose to exercise with one person from outside your household or support bubble, you cannot exercise with members of your household or support bubble at the same time," a statement said.

"This does not apply to children under 11 who can accompany you on your exercise.

"You should ensure that you maintain social distancing from the person you are exercising with.

"You should also be mindful that exercise must start and finish from your home. You therefore should not travel to meet with someone outside of your household or support bubble.”

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Wales' first minister said he is "very keen" to give "two clear weeks notice" that plans for a phased return of some primary school children to school from 22 February are going ahead.

Mark Drakeford said there was a "lot of hard work to be done on the detail of that" with local councils and schools, and he wanted that to happen "intensively next week".

"By the end of next week we would therefore be in a position to confirm the plans that we will have put together," he added at the coronavirus briefing.

The new Welsh Conservatives' leader in the Senedd, Andrew RT Davies, has pledged to work with ministers to see the easing of Covid restrictions.

"We want this to be the last lockdown and we will work with the Welsh Government to do whatever it takes to make sure that's the case," he said.

The latest figures show that the number of people receiving a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine in Wales is now 362,253, which is 11.5% of the population.

Deaths with Covid have increased by 29 to 4,695 and positive cases are up by 546 to 190,940.

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Covid vaccination rates are “getting faster and faster” each day, First Minister Mark Drakeford said today.

The Welsh Government had faced criticism last week after rates in Wales were lower than elsewhere in the UK.

But daily vaccination rates have since overtaken the other three UK nations, with more than 362,000 people in Wales now having received their first dose.

More than 400 GP practices are now offering vaccines, with 34 mass vaccination centres and 17 hospitals being used.

“We’re getting faster and faster with every day that goes by,” said Mr Drakeford, adding that someone was now vaccinated every five seconds.

Ministers missed a target of vaccinating 70% of over-80s by last weekend.

The next milestone will be the target of vaccinating all those over 70 and the clinically vulnerable by mid-February.

Cases of Covid have fallen dramatically since Christmas, but there are still 1,300 patients with the infection in hospital.

“Despite the very real progress we have made, it’s too soon to start lifting the lockdown restrictions,” Mr Drakeford said.