The Welsh Government has said today it is ‘actively considering’ making people travelling to Wales from Covid hotspots across the UK to quarantine for 14 days.

Politicians in North and West Wales have been calling for measures to stop people from local lockdown areas in England travelling to Wales and on Monday, Health Minister, Vaughan Gething, MS, confirmed that the Welsh Government was ‘actively considering’ implementing a 14 day quarantine for anyone coming into Wales from a UK hotspot.

Mr Gething told a Welsh Government press conference that ministers were considering how to use powers to protect areas with lower cases.

But he said there was "no good reason" to prevent someone from a low incidence area like Devon from travelling to Pembrokeshire.

Mr Gething added: "We’re having to consider how we use our power to protect lower-prevalence areas of Wales but at the same time, we don’t want to take a whole-nation approach.”

Conservative MS Andrew RT Davies warned this afternoon that quarantine restrictions for people travelling to Wales from Covid hotspots in England was a ’dangerous slope’ for the Welsh Government to go down.

Mr Davies said: “If you start introducing such quarantine restrictions in Wales, the does that mean there is a quid pro quo that England, Scotland and Northern Ireland will start doing the same for Welsh residents?

“There are all sorts of questions to be answered before you even entertain implementing such dramatic action.

“We have to appeal to people to act responsibly and sensibly, not pile restriction upon restriction on them, which will be an attack on our civil liberties.”