Angela Burns MS – the Shadow Minister for Health – commented:
“To help those living alone, and may have been for weeks now, Welsh Conservatives are repeating our call for the introduction of ‘social bubbles’.
“The First Minister hopes to make a decision next week, but had a decision been made today, then people all over Wales could have avoided another ‘lost weekend’ of not being able to see their loved ones.
“The lockdown has been, for some people, the hardest time of their lives. Cut off from family and friends – and no matter what, Zoom and Skype calls just aren’t the same thing – for weeks on end, with limited ability to go out and none of course to socialise – it will have had an effect on their mental and emotional well-being.
“It has been a terribly hard time for single people in households, and it is time to give them the support they need.”