Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, the Welsh First Minister said residents in Wales will be told to go back to society from November 9 as most businesses will reopen after a 17-day national lockdown. He said: “We will be reopening shops, we will be reopening gyms. We will be allowing local authority services to resume.
“All students will be back in school, churches will be able to reopen.
“We will be asking people to work from home wherever possible but on November 9, a week from today, the firebreak in Wales will be over and large parts of life will be able to resume as they were on October 22.
“We went for a 17-day firebreak and explained to people that if we were going to make it short, we’d have to make it really sharp.”
Mr Drakeford said “early indications” show that travel in Wales over the firebreak has been much lower, which suggests people have been following the rules.
“As I said right at the beginning, it will be a couple of weeks beyond November 9 before we know whether this great national effort has succeeded,” he said.
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