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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿BREAKING: Wales to impose 'fire break' lockdown of 2 weeks starting at 6pm Friday.

▪️ PEOPLE MUST STAY AT HOME
▪️ ALL HOSPITALITY CLOSED
▪️ SECONDARY SCHOOLS CLOSED FOR YEAR 9 AND ABOVE beyond half term

"Our critical care units are already full", warns the First Minister.

First Minister promises £300m resilience fund. Automatic payments of:

- £1,000 for every business.
- Up to £5,000 for hospitality businesses.

Primary and special schools will reopen after the usual half term break and Years 7 and 8 can return to secondary schools. Other year groups in secondary school remain home for the extra week.

First Minister says the "window to act is only a small one" and "we need everyone's help."

"This is the moment to come together", he says.

Non-essential shops will also close during the two weeks.

First Minister promises that the period *will* end on November 9th. But says the benefit will take time to feed through - it won't be seen during those two weeks.

Full details of lockdown measures and support here. Notable inclusions:

🎃 No meeting outdoors, not even for Halloween / bonfire night
💇🏼‍♀️ Hairdressers and other close contact services to shut

FAQs here for other queries you may have. Can't guarantee they'll be answered, but quite a lot covered here:

gov.wales/coronavirus-ci…