First Minister Mark Drakeford has said that Wales will move away from testing for coronavirus "gradually" after all restrictions in Wales are lifted at the end of the month.
He was speaking after it was announced that if the public health remains stable, all legal coronavirus measures will be removed by Monday, March 28
It means it will no longer be compulsory to wear face coverings in shops, on public transport, or in healthcare settings on that date and self-isolation will not be required by law.
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But questions have been asked about what it means for free testing in Wales. In England, free lateral flow tests (LFTs) won't be available after April 1, except for the over-75s and over-12s with weakened immune systems. PCR tests will also no longer be free for most people.
The First Minister said Wales would end free testing in a slightly different way, telling BBC Radio Wales there will be no "cliff edge" end to testing like there has been in England.
He said that decisions that the UK Government has made to dismantle the testing infrastructure will have a "direct impact" on the Welsh Government's ability to go on providing testing at the level that "we would have thought proportionate to the ongoing risk".
He said: "What we've done instead is to marshal all the resources we have available to us. So, we will see a gradual, phased reduction in the availability of testing over a three-month period taking us far further into the summer period.
"After that, we will have to use the testing available to us in a more targeted way. There will be both PCR and lateral flow tests available, but not just on 'I think I might be like to find out whether I'm suffering from coronavirus' way. We won't be able to sustain that preventative type testing.
"But we will be able to sustain testing for those more vulnerable populations, in places like care homes and hospital settings, for example. We will also be able to have an element of surveillance, so that we hope to be able to have enough testing going on in Wales that if a new variant were to emerge, either spontaneously here or to be imported before from abroad, that we'd still be able to spot that at an early enough stage to be able to take action to respond to it."
Mr Drakeford also said that they were expecting there to be "significantly less coronavirus. in circulation" by the time the new, longer-term testing regime is in place. The latest infection rate based on PCR tests for the seven days up to February 26 is now 158.7 cases for every 100,000 people – a fall from the 169.4 cases recorded the day before. Find the latest cases in Wales here.
He added: "The risks of people who have it be out and about and passing it on to other people will increase, but the baseline risk from the level of coronavirus will have reduced. What the models show us is, that by the summer, we should still be able to deal safely with coronavirus here in Wales provided we all go on doing the things we've learned to do, and with the level of testing, and vaccination and other measures that we will have in Wales, beyond the end of June."
In England, people will have to buy a test from pharmacists or other retailers from April 1.
Boots says it will start seeing single tests online for £5.99, or four for £17.
The number of free NHS tests distributed each day in England has already been capped "to manage demand". People without symptoms can now only order one pack of seven LFTs every three days - previously it was one per day.
In Scotland, Deputy First Minister John Swinney has said that free Covid testing will continue in some form beyond April with plans being set out later this month.
The Welsh Government's plan of living with coronavirus in the future will also be revealed on Friday. More details here.
Called Together for a Safer Future: Wales' Long-term Covid-19 Transition from Pandemic to Endemic, it will set out a gradual transition away from emergency measures. It states it is "based on evidence" and "with the protection of everyone, especially the most vulnerable, at its heart".
it says about testing: "As we have throughout the pandemic, we will take a cautious and phased approach to scaling back protections.
"This will mean the transition of Test Trace Protect will proceed in a phased way over the coming months.
"Our timeline is indicative and will, in line with the general approach we have always adopted,be determined by the public health conditions at the time. We will retain the ability to scale back up our response under any Covid Urgent scenario, which we will do in a proportionate way if needed."
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