Coronavirus diary, Sunday 7 June

With England ignoring its advisers and regularly announcing steps to ease lockdown, Wales is maintaining its ultra cautious approach. 

Churches in England are to reopen but only for private, individual worship. The most significant step in Wales is the planned reopening of schools before end of this month to give pupils a month in the classroom before the summer holidays.

While Wales is more lenient on get-togethers - any number from a household compared with eight in England - we can only drive up to five miles. England has no limit.

This has led to confusion with the Dyfed Powys police in one day turning back 1,000 visitors from England who had crossed the border not realising the rules were different.

The Brecon Beacons is the biggest attraction with seaside towns generally quiet. 

The Welsh government has yet to make up its mind on face masks with no direction, First Minister Mark Drakeford describing the benefits as marginal. 

England is making masks compulsory on transport and in hospitals 
The coronavirus death rate in Wales is falling - ten in one day, taking the total to 1,393.

Cardiff City Council has announced plans to revitalise the capital. Cardiff Castle, in the heart of the city, is to be opened up, to  become a focus of activity and business.

For many years 8,000 people a night crowded the castle's magnificent grounds, overlooked by the Keep, for the Cardiff military tattoo. 

Now they are to become a 'public space'. attracting businesses to sell to customers with meals ordered online.

There will be pavement widening - a pilot scheme is in operation in one part of the city - and in the city centre, information points, queueing and waiting spaces for shops, pubs and restaurants. 

Huw Thomas, leader of the council, said the plan was to bring life and prosperity to Cardiff, safely and avoid mass unemployment.  'Restart, recover and renew'. A bold plan.