Summary

  • Chief Medical Officer Dr Frank Atherton and Chief Scientific Adviser for Health Dr Rob Orford have been giving a Welsh Government update on the pandemic

  • They say there is a worry that new variants of coronavirus may emerge which are resistant to vaccines

  • The children's commissioner urges ministers to explain the pandemic milestones that will trigger the return of pupils to classrooms

  • The boss of the DVLA is Swansea is accused by a senior MP of giving “misleading” information over Covid-19 cases amongst its workers

  • Boris Johnson says the UK government is working "flat out" to tackle the DVLA outbreak after it was raised at Prime Minister's Questions