20 October 2020
Wales will enter a ‘firebreak’ lockdown on Friday (October 23) for 17 days, with all non-essential retail, leisure and hospitality businesses to close.
The closures include hotels and other holiday accommodation and visitors from outside Wales will be asked to go home.
No non-essential travel – including holidays – will be allowed until November 9.
The new ‘firebreak’ measures include:
- Non-essential retail, leisure and hospitality businesses to close
- People to work from home wherever possible, with exceptions for critical workers
- Household mixing banned both indoors and outdoors, although those in social bubbles will still be able to meet
- Primary schools open after the half-term week and secondary schools will open only to Year 7 and Year 8 pupils
- Places of worship to be closed except for weddings and funerals
