That's all from our live page coverage of today's Welsh Government update on the pandemic.

Here are the main points:

• Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the public health situation was continuing to improve across Wales as Covid cases fall
• He says ministers are considering whether to replace the "stay at home" instruction next week with a "stay local" policy, or allow travel anywhere throughout Wales
• The Welsh Government will wait to see the recommendation of the NHS pay review body, after the UK government said it would offer at 1% pay rise to health staff in England
• Lockdown rules which currently forbid door-to-door campaigning may be relaxed in time for the Senedd election in May, Mr Gething said, after smaller parties claimed it was unfair to them

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People claiming to be on a ghost hunt about 60 miles (96km) away from home have been fined by police for breaking lockdown rules.

Covid fines were issued to four people who drove from Cwmbran to Mumbles, Swansea, to "ghost hunt and view castles".

Current lockdown rules in Wales say you should only travel if essential.

Dealing with the effects of Covid lockdown has been tough enough, but for poultry farmers in Wales there is a second viral challenge on their doorstep - bird flu.

A nationwide lockdown, external has been in place since December, forcing all captive birds to stay indoors.

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The leader of the Conservatives in the Senedd has called on Welsh ministers to "get on with" relaxing lockdown rules so door-to-door campaigning for May's Welsh Parliament election can go ahead.

Health Minister Vaughan Gething said that the Welsh Government was "considering" a relaxation of the restrictions, which smaller parties have said puts them at a disadvantage.

Campaigning for England's local elections will be allowed from Monday.

Tory group leader Andrew RT Davies said: "We need to get on with this quickly now the election is less than sixty days away.

"There's no reason why Wales can't do that - let's get on with it."

He also said the 1% England NHS pay offer was “merely a proposal” by the UK government to the NHS pay review body in England.

The Welsh Government has said it will await and accept the recommendation of the pay review body, which Mr Davies said he would also support.

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Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price says the proposed 1% pay rise for NHS workers in England is "absolutely disgusting" and represents a real-terms pay cut.

Mr Price urged the Welsh Government to make an improved pay recommendation for the NHS Wales workforce.

"We support the call from the RCN and other health unions for a meaningful pay rise. This isn't even a pay rise," he said.

"Inflation is running at around 1.5 to 1.8%. So it's a pay cut."

Health Minister Vaughan Gething said the Welsh Government would await and accept the recommendation of the NHS pay review body.

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Wales' health minister has said the Welsh Government is considering whether to have a "stay local" period or to allow travel across the whole of Wales, as it prepares to announce its latest review of lockdown rules next week.

Vaughan Gething said: "That's the choice that the government needs to make - we haven't concluded that."

Ministers have already said that next week will be the last period of "stay home" restrictions, provided there is no reversal in progress in suppressing coronavirus.

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The Welsh Government is “considering” a relaxation to Covid rules to allow door-to-door campaigning ahead of the Senedd elections in May, the health minister has said.

Candidates in Wales are currently prohibited from traditional doorstep leafleting and canvassing due to lockdown restrictions, prompting complaints that this is unfair to smaller parties.

However, in England restrictions on door-to-door campaigning are being relaxed next week in time for local, mayoral and police and crime commissioner elections in May.

Speaking during Friday’s press briefing, Vaughan Gething said the first minister “may” be in a position to announce something next Friday when he reviews the current coronavirus restrictions, but it was dependent on rates of the virus continuing to fall.

“We recognise that for the election to function, we want all parties, all candidates to have the ability to communicate with the electorate and we’d like to be in a position to safely move from having paid leaflet delivery to the sort of things that people can do with volunteers”, he said.

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A "couple of positive cases” in the Welsh Government workforce show that it’s possible for coronavirus to “sneak through” even with proper control measures in place, the health minister has said.

Vaughan Gething confirmed that First Minister Mark Drakeford was currently self-isolating following “a couple of positive cases”.

He said Welsh Government staff had been “doing the right thing” by social distancing, using hand sanitiser and regular hand washing.

But, he said, the positive cases did show that “despite all these control measures, it is still possible for coronavirus to sneak through”.

The Welsh Government is not following England’s lead in recommending a 1% maximum pay rise for NHS staff, Wales' health minister has said.

The UK government's Department for Health has recommended a 1% rise in England, arguing that other parts of the public sector has seen pay freezes.

Vaughan Gething said the Welsh Government would wait and accept the recommendation of the pay review body for NHS staff.

He said ministers in Wales would not be putting an "artificial ceiling" on the pay award for 2021-22, which he said was a "different approach to the UK government".

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Health Minister Vaughan Gething has said Wales has the best vaccination rate in the UK.

He said a greater proportion of people in Wales have had both doses of the vaccine than in any other part of the UK.

“We’re now getting very close to delivering the millionth first dose – another significant milestone for this truly remarkable programme," Mr Gething told today's Welsh Government briefing.

He paid tribute to the “many hundreds of people working both behind the scenes and in clinics across the country” who had helped deliver the programme.

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There have been 24 cases of the South African variant in Wales, Wales' health minister has said.

Vaughan Gething said “detailed investigations” had identified that the majority of cases had had links to international travel.

“Investigations are continuing into a handful of cases," he said.

“We are closely monitoring these because of the risk of severe disease and because they may limit the effectiveness of our current vaccines."

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Health Minister Vaughan Gething says the “highly infectious” Kent strain of the virus is now the most dominant form of Covid in Wales.

Mr Gething said it was common to see new variants, and this one was "probably driving some of the high infection rates we saw across Wales in late November”.

“Some of these new mutated strains can cause the pandemic to take a new turn, causing more problems as they become a source for more infections and potentially serious illness," he said.

“In the case of the Kent strain, this is a more infectious form of the virus than the original version of the disease we had become used to."

Health Minister Vaughan Gething says the fall in Covid cases “suggests that we are over the worst of the second wave of the virus in Wales”.

But he said this didn’t mean “we can afford to let down our guard”.

Mr Gething said the Welsh Government was taking “a careful and gradual approach towards lifting the restrictions, starting with our top priority of getting children back into school”.

He said the next three-week review of the coronavirus rules would come next week, when ministers would consider whether “some further cautious steps” could be taken towards relaxing restrictions.

Health Minister Vaughan Gething has said the public health situation is continuing to improve across Wales as Covid cases fall.

Speaking at the Welsh Government’s coronavirus briefing, he said the seven-day case rate across Wales had fallen to around 50 cases per 100,000 people, with all local authority areas reporting fewer than 100 cases per 100,000 people.

Mr Gething said: “This is the lowest rate we have seen across Wales since mid-September”.

He also said the transmission rate R number remained below 1 and the positivity rate had fallen to 5.4%.

Gwynedd currently has the highest coronavirus case rate in Wales over a seven-day period, at 89.1 per 100,000 people.

It is followed by Conwy with 83.6 and Caerphilly with 76.8.

Meanwhile, Ceredigion has the lowest weekly Covid case rate in Wales at 19.3 per 100,000 people.

Across Wales, the seven-day case rate is 51.

Health Minister Vaughan Gething is about to give a Welsh Government update on the pandemic.

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There could be "opportunities" to open some of the economy earlier in Wales compared with England, the first minister has said.

Mark Drakeford told MPs he would not want to deny firms the chance to reopen while he waits "for somebody else to be in the position we have already arrived at".

He said coronavirus rates in Wales ware "significantly lower" than in England.

Under Welsh plans hairdressers and some shops may reopen on 15 March, but the UK government is looking at 12 April for England.

Mr Drakeford was speaking to Welsh Affairs Select Committee at Westminster from self-isolation after coming into contact with someone with Covid-19.

A further 12 people are reported to have died in Wales with coronavirus, bringing the official total to 5,378, according to Public Health Wales (PHW).

There were also 230 new Covid infections reported, taking the total number of cases since the pandemic began to 204,692.

Wales' average case rate for coronavirus infections over a seven-day period now stands at 51 per 100,000 people.

The number of people who have received a dose of Covid vaccine in Wales has risen to 967,042 with 154,819 having had the recommended two doses.

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Covid has exposed Britain's "crushing poverty" and "corrupt elite", Plaid Cymru's leader will say later.

Adam Price will tell a virtual party conference that Wales faces a "moment of truth", and should seek independence.

He will point to research which suggests fewer than half of care workers are paid the real living wage and more than 70,000 children in poverty do not qualify for free school meals.

He will also cite a row over the furlough scheme between the Welsh and UK governments last autumn.

The UK government increased the wage subsidy when a lockdown was announced in England, mid-way through Wales's firebreak.

"The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the reality of modern Britain: a state defined by crushing poverty, ruled by a corrupt elite that gives contracts to its friends and denies furlough to its neighbours," Mr Price will say.

Plaid wants to hold a referendum on Welsh independence if it wins May's Senedd election, although the power to call such a poll lies at Westminster.

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A-level and GCSE pupils in Wales will be told provisional grades by teachers in June, ahead of official results days in August.

Qualifications Wales said it meant pupils could appeal to the school or college before final results were confirmed.

This summer's grades will be decided by teachers, after exams were cancelled due to the pandemic.

Results days will also be earlier than usual - A-levels and AS-levels on 10 August and GCSEs on 12 August.