Thread by @fmwales

Thanks to your efforts, coronavirus rates remain relatively low in Wales, and more and more people are being fully vaccinated every day.

This means we can fully move to Alert Level 1 from Saturday 17 July.

Further details in the thread below ⬇️

From Saturday, up to six people can meet and organised indoor events can take place.

We will relax the restrictions around children’s residential activity centres and ice rinks will be able to reopen too.

Also from Saturday there will be no limit on the amount of people who can gather outdoors in Wales - and we will no longer have to social distance when outdoors.

We must stick to 6 people and keep our distance when indoors to reduce the risk.

I've also set out our long-term plan to ease remaining restrictions - known as Alert Level 0 – from 7 August if it is safe to do so.

In Wales, we’ve acted as a team and taken action collectively to protect each other – this will need to continue when restrictions are eased.

The virus is still with us and we know many people are still anxious about going out and about.

Social distancing requirements and mask rules will remain indoors from 17 July.

But we will gradually ease masks as the public health risk decreases.

As we continue with our cautious plan to ease restrictions, please take up both doses of the vaccine - you need both for maximum protection.

It offers us the best protection against this awful virus and we’re very proud of our world-leading vaccination programme here.

It is everything you have done and the hard work of our vaccinators that means we can now ease restrictions further and plan for the future.

Diolch o galon to you all for respecting the restrictions and saying yes to the vaccine – you have helped to keep Wales safe.