When can you leave home in lockdown?

THE new fire-break lockdown means you are no longer allowed to meet anyone from outside your household either indoors or outdoors.

When can I leave home?

You should only be outside of your home for very limited reasons, which include:

■ the need to obtain supplies and services for you or your household, for example food, medicine, and essential household maintenance. The Welsh Government encourages everyone to make this as infrequently as possible

■ to exercise, alone or with members of your household. Again, you are encouraged to do this locally

■ to access childcare and education

■ to access medical services or other public services

■ to deposit and withdraw money from a bank or similar establishment

■ to provide care for or to help a vulnerable person; this includes getting food or medicines for them

■ to help the NHS by donating blood

■ for work purposes, or voluntary or charitable purposes, but only where it is not reasonably practicable to do this from home

■ to visit a cemetery, burial ground or garden of remembrance to pay your respects

■ to attend a wedding, civil partnership or funeral if you are invited

■ to attend court or meet other legal obligations to escape a risk of illness or injury, such as for victims or people at risk of domestic abuse

■ to access services provided to victims of crime or domestic abuse or those at imminent risk of becoming victims.

Whenever you leave home, you should try to minimise time spent outside of the home and ensure you stay at least two metres away from anyone you don’t live with or are in a permitted “bubble” with.