Restrictions from Covid

the health service.

Also during his briefing, the First Minister outlined how holidays might look in Wales this summer, amid hopes there may be some relief on the horizon for the tourism sector.

He said there will still be restrictions in place and “the tourism industry will be captured by them”, but trips to self-contained accommodation may be a possibility.

This could open the door for the letting of holiday cottages and AirBnbs to resume.

“There is, in a public health sense, I think, a distinction to be drawn between people who have their own kitchen, their own bathroom...”, Mr Drakeford said.

“That will be different, I think, to someone travelling to stay somewhere where they are sharing kitchens, sharing showers, sharing toilets, where inevitably the level of risk would be great.”

Mr Drakeford said those holidaying in self-contained accommodation would still be governed by the five-mile advice once they arrived, just as local residents will be.

Guests would not be “shooting around everywhere, meeting lots of different people,” he said.

The Welsh Government will need to first “secure community consent” before tourism is reopened, he said, adding that there will be a “very strong reaction at the community level” in north-west and southwest Wales, where there have been very low levels of the virus.

Reopening tourism in these areas runs the risk of large numbers of people travelling to these localities, he said, which could increase local transmission of the virus.

“All of that will have to be very carefully navigated,” he said.

But he did not provide a timescale for when holidays of this nature may be permitted.