5. Statement by the Minister for International Relations and Welsh Language: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:23 pm on 10 June 2020.

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Photo of Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan Baroness Mair Eluned Morgan Labour 3:23, 10 June 2020

Thank you, Mohammad. And just to underline the point that we will reopen our tourism sector when it's safe to do so. We've made clear our traffic lights system, where what we'll be looking at first of all is the signal that accommodation without shared facilities will be the first to open. And we are just preparing the ground for that to be possible now. But we will not move until the communities are happy for us to do so, and also when the health situation is in the right place for us to do so.

On the sporting events, just to make clear that there are many outdoor sports that are able to be undertaken already. But certainly, professional sportspeople have been able to start back—people like footballers; they have been able because that is a job for them. But in the next review, we will be considering whether it will be possible for elite sports athletes to be able to undertake training. And so that is something that we are looking at, to see if it will be possible to review that in the next period.