That's it for our live coverage of the Welsh Government's update on the pandemic. Here's a recap on the main developments so far today:

• Health Minister Vaughan Gething said all adults in Wales will have been offered a first Covid jab by 31 July subject to supplies matching targets
• All people aged over 50 and adults with an underlying health condition will be offered vaccines by the middle of April, Mr Gething added
• Support is to be offered for rapid workplace testing in private and public organisations with more than 50 employees
• The joint committee on vaccination (JCVI) agreed that people on the learning disability register should now be prioritised
• Another 13 people have died with Covid in Wales, taking the official total to 5,263, according to Public Health Wales
• Wales has the lowest Covid case rate of any of the UK nations, with an infection rate of 76 cases per 100,000 people

You can follow coverage of this afternoon's proceedings in the Welsh Parliament via our Senedd Live blog.

Have a good afternoon, and stay safe.

Daniel Davies
BBC Wales political correspondent

Education Minister Kirsty Williams says sending all children back to school at once would pile pressure on the NHS.

Under current plans, the final group of secondary school pupils will not be back in school until the summer term starts on 12 April, although the youngest primary school children have begun to return this week.

In England, all age groups are due to return on March 8.

However, during a visit to a primary school in Cardiff, Ms Williams insisted the Welsh Government was following scientific advice.

“We've been advised if you bring all children back in one big bang that potentially has a massive effect on the R number [infection rate]," she said.

“We will see [Covid case] rates begin to climb again and we will see extra pressure being put back on our NHS.

“Nobody wants to go there. That's why we are doing it carefully and cautiously.”

Ms Williams added she would “welcome a discussion” on changing the academic year in the wake of the pandemic.

Shorter summer holidays and longer breaks in the autumn and Christmas “actually might be a more appropriate way to organise the school year”, she said.

Of the latest 13 deaths withm Covid in Wales, six were reported by Betsi Cadwaladr health board, which provides NHS services in north Wales.

There were two deaths reported by Cwm Taf Morgannwg in south Wales, and two by Hywel Dda which serves west Wales.

One death was reported by the boards for Swansea Bay, Cardiff and Vale, and Aneurin Bevan, which covers south east Wales.

The news that all adults in Wales will be offered the coronavirus vaccine by the end of July is a "huge game-changer," Welsh Conservative Janet Finch-Saunders says.

The member of the Senedd (MS) for Aberconwy said as more people were vaccinated "so too will those expectations grow".

Ms Finch-Saunders said it was "very disappointing" that Health Minister Vaughan Gething had been "vague" in the news conference about visits to care homes.

"People have really suffered as a result of not seeing their loved ones who are very vulnerable in those care homes," she told BBC Wales.

"England have already made the announcements about visits being allowed in March."

Plaid Cymru has welcomed the health minister's announcement that there will be guidance issued on prioritising vaccinations in Wales for people with learning disabilities, severe mental illness and unpaid carers.

Member of the Senedd (MS) Delyth Jewell said it could "make a huge difference", adding: "This is a really exciting day for all the campaigners who have been fighting so hard for this change in policy."

She told BBC Wales: "If we look at the number of care home residents with learning disabilities - we're talking about maybe 3,500 people - that would be around 10% of the vaccinations given any day in Wales."

Ms Jewell said she had been campaigning for this for "a number of weeks" but questioned "why the certainty couldn't have been given to families two weeks ago".

Attempting to give long-term forecasts about emerging out of the pandemic has "made a mug of a range of people," Health Minister Vaughan Gething says.

He said "forecasting much further into the future" was "fraught with difficulty and uncertainty" which was "getting into something that is more like astrology than science and public health advice".

"Whether it’s ‘coronavirus sent packing in 12 weeks’, ‘a vaccine by September’ or ‘return to normality by December’, all of those things have proven to be long-term punts that haven’t fared well with reality," Mr Gething said.

“We’re doing something that is forecasting a reasonable amount into the future, with a three-week review.

"We’ll be up front about what that means, what the next review might mean as well, to give people enough time to get used to the practical progress we’re making."

The UK government’s decision to reopen schools to all children in England at the same time is not in line with medical and scientific advice, Health Minister Vaughan Gething says.

He said it was in contrast with the Welsh Government’s policy of a phased school reopening.

“The advice from the chief medical officers and scientific evidence advice isn’t really any different within the UK,” he said.

“What England have chosen to do though is they’ve chosen to move away from the advice of having a more phased approach to school reopening, but to have a ‘big bang’ reopening on 8 March.

“The consequence of that is they’re having to have a bigger gap between that intervention and when they’re next contemplating doing something else."

Health Minister Vaughan Gething said he was expecting more guidance to be issued by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) in the next few days about the prioritisation of jabs for under-50s.

“We have asked questions as indeed have other governments in the UK about whether there should prioritisation within that," he said.

On the latest advice from the JCVI that people registered with learning disabilities should be prioritised in group six for jabs, Mr Gething said he would follow guidance suggesting the use of GP registers to identify people.

He said he would be working with GP practises to make sure “the GP registers actually cover all the people we’d want to see covered”.

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The pandemic has seen a "huge leap forward" in the way services for people's mental and physical health are provided in Wales, according to the health minister.

Vaughan Gething said the "necessity of doing that" in the current circumstances meant "we're going to have a better way to deliver a range of our services into the future".

He said before the pandemic the Welsh Government had "invested lots" in "tier zero services" - the "lowest level of intervention" that "make a really big difference to help support, sustain and improve people's wellbeing".

This approach was to avoid these people going on to need services for more serious mental ill-health, Mr Gething said.

The minister said other measures had included a scheme addressing the impact of mental health concerns for children and young people.

It was "undeniable that we've seen real improvements in mental health provision over the course of this [Senedd] term", he added.

The Welsh Government’s upcoming budget will take account of extra strains put on people’s mental health because of the pandemic, according to the health minister.

Vaughan Gething said considerably more money was already being put in to support mental health services in Wales, and pledged that this would continue into the next financial year.

“As we’re putting more money into those services in a variety of different ways, the money we’re planning to put into the budget in the next year will need to account for the increase in the mental health needs that we’ve already seen and will continue to see,” he said.

“There’s a range of different strands and [the Minister for Mental Health] Eluned Morgan will be providing more information before we get to the end of March about what we expect to do with the money in our budget.

“We’ll also then be able to take account of any further announcements made in the UK budget announced on 3 March,” he added.

The Welsh Government is publishing guidance that will “help support vaccine uptake for unpaid carers and people with learning disabilities or severe mental illness”, Health Minister Vaughan Gething says.

He said it would “take into account” the latest advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).

Mr Gething said the guidance would explain who in these groups is eligible for vaccine prioritisation and explain how to identify, contact and support people to access their vaccine.

“Unpaid carers and those with learning disabilities and severe mental illness is a large group, and it may take some time for NHS Wales to offer appointments to everyone,” he said.

“But please be assured that our NHS is working as quickly as possible and nobody will be left behind."

Priority groups five to nine are now being vaccinated against coronavirus, according to Health Minister Vaughan Gething.

He said: “That is everyone aged 50 to 69, everyone aged over 16 with an underlying health condition that puts them at increased risk of serious illness with coronavirus, and many of our invaluable unpaid carers who provide care for someone who is clinically vulnerable to the virus."

Mr Gething added: “Subject to vaccine supply, we will have reached all these people by the middle of April.”

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All eligible adults in Wales will be offered a first coronavirus vaccination by 31 July “as long as the supply matches our ambition”, Health Minister Vaughan Gething has said.

A revised vaccine strategy to be published later this week will set out how the Welsh Government will “grow and adapt the places where vaccines are being administered” as it moves into the next phases of the vaccine programme.

“Our strategy update will also talk about how we will maintain high-levels of uptake and increase our engagement with people who may be difficult to reach or reluctant to have the vaccine,” Mr Gething added.

Workplace and community testing is being expanded alongside faster vaccine delivery in Wales.

Health Minister Vaughan Gething said more than 250,000 workers across Wales would have access to weekly testing using kits which produce results in under half an hour.

He said the new Workplace Testing Framework would extend “rapid and regular” testing to public and private organisations with more than 50 employees.

“The priority will be workplaces that have a higher exposure to risk, involve people working in close proximity to others, and those that deliver key services for the people of Wales,” Mr Gething explained.

The minister said from next week “targeted community testing” would begin in parts of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

“By expanding testing to detect more cases more quickly, particularly those that are asymptomatic, we may well see an uptick in the figures for the prevalence of the virus in Wales," he said.

“An increase in the reported number of positive test results is not, in itself, necessarily a bad thing - if the basis for that increase is understood and swift action taken to stop transmission."

Mr Gething said vaccinations and testing were key to guiding Wales out of lockdown “carefully and safely”.

Cases of coronavirus in Wales are now at their lowest level since the end of September, according to Health Minister Vaughan Gething.

He told the coronavirus briefing there were “around” 76 cases per 100,000 people.

Cases are falling in most parts of Wales and the R transmission rate number is between 0.6 and 0.9, Mr Gething added.

On the vaccination programme, he said the very latest figures showed more than 878,000 people had received their first dose of the vaccine.

"That's nearly 28% of our whole population and more than a third of the adult population here in Wales," he said.

The Welsh Government is closely monitoring the impact of the phased return to school, Health Minister Vaughan Gething says.

Speaking at the Welsh Government's coronavirus briefing, Mr Gething said it was “an absolute pleasure” to see foundation phase children going back to school this week.

“The joy on their faces, and on the faces of their teachers, reminds us of the incredibly important role education plays, not just for learning, but for vital social interaction.

“I want to thank all our teachers, unions, local authorities and others for the huge efforts they have made in bringing children back into the classroom this week.

“We will be monitoring this closely and, as the first minister said last week, we want to get as many of our learners back into school as quickly as we can – but as safely as we can."

Flintshire has the highest seven-day Covid case rate of any local authority in Wales, with 103.1 people per 100,000 of the population testing positive for the virus in the past seven days.

That is followed by Anglesey with a case rate of 102.8 and Cardiff with 102.5.

Ceredigion has the lowest rate with 27.5 cases per 100,000 people.

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Ione Wells
Westminster Correspondent, BBC Wales

The UK government's Welsh secretary says sending all pupils back to school in England on 8 March is "definitely in line" with scientific advice from England's chief medical officer.

Simon Hart said while all decisions on lifting lockdown were "ultimately ministerial decisions", the approach in England was "very consistent" with medical advice.

It comes after Wales' First Minister Mark Drakeford insisted that reopening schools to all pupils at the same time would be unsafe.

Children aged under seven in Wales have begun to return to class this week, with 15 March the target date for all primary school pupils.

However, some secondary school pupils may not be back until after Easter, in mid-April.

Mr Hart said policy differences were a "political decision" and it was for Mr Drakeford to explain why he has taken a different decision.

A further 13 people have died with coronavirus in Wales, latest figures from Public Health Wales (PHW) show.

It takes the total number of Covid-related deaths reported by PHW in the country to 5,263.

A further 236 cases have been reported, bringing the total to 202,560.

Vaccinations have been given to 878,506 people with 59,279 having had both their doses.

This represents 27.9% and 1.9% of the population of Wales respectively.