The Welsh Government is still ’working on the detail’ on whether to make the wearing of face masks in public in Wales mandatory, although First Minister Mark Drakeford has promised an update tomorrow.

Speaking at the daily Welsh Government briefing, Mr Drakeford said: “The way we do things in Wales is to prepare first and to announce second, not to announce and then work out what the announcement might have meant.

Health Minister Vaughan Gething is expected to give up to date advice about whether the public should use face coverings at Tuesday’s daily briefing.

In England, face coverings will become compulsory on public transport this month and there have been calls for Wales to follow suit with pressure being brought by Plaid Cymru as well as doctors’ leaders.

Speaking at today’s press briefing Mr Drakeford also hinted that lockdown restrictions could be eased further later this month if numbers of Covid-19 cases continue to fall, but refused to make promises about re-opening pubs and restaurants.

Mr Drakeford said cases are falling from a high of about 400 a day at the start to around 50 new cases a day.

"Because the number of new cases is falling, then the risk of meeting someone with the disease and being infected by it is falling as well," he said, adding that if the number continues to fall the Government would have ’some headroom to go on in a careful and cautious way of lifting the restrictions in Wales’.

Mr Drakeford said he would be meeting officials to consider the ’long list’ of potential areas which could reopen at the end of the current three week period before whittling it down to a short list.

"We’ll do it in the way we’ve done it in the last two cycles. We’ll look at a long list of ideas this week and reduce that list to a short list of the most possible ideas which we will then look at greater detail next week."

The next review of the lockdown in Wales is due on June 19 at the end of the current three-week period.