The largest petition ever submitted to the Senedd has now passed 45,000 signatures.
The largest petition ever submitted to the Senedd has now passed 44,000 signatures.
Any change to self-isolation requirements would follow research by King's College London, which suggested just 10.9% of those traced as contacts of someone with Covid-19 remained at home for the full quarantine period.
The Welsh government has said it will review its ban on supermarkets selling non-essential items following a widespread backlash.
The news came just hours before a man was charged with criminal damage and contravention of coronavirus regulations after an incident at a Tesco store in Bangor.
Gwilym Owen, 28, from Anglesey, will appear before magistrates in Caernarfon on 24 November.
Video on social media from Friday showed a person at the store pulling plastic sheeting from shelves.
The Welsh government has been widely criticised for guidance saying certain sections of supermarkets must be "cordoned off or emptied, and closed to the public".
Affected items include electrical goods, telephones, clothes, toys and games, garden products and dedicated sections for homeware.
The reason put forward was to discourage people from spending too much time in shops and that it would be unfair if independent retailers were forced to close but supermarkets continued selling similar items.
Almost 43,000 people have signed a petition calling on politicians to reverse the ban, which it described as "disproportionate and cruel".
It said: "We do not agree that this is a prudent or rational measure, and will create more harm than good."
First Minister Mark Drakeford said the review would make sure "common sense is applied" to the rules governing the 17-day coronavirus lockdown.
Mr Drakeford said: "We'll be reviewing how the weekend has gone with the supermarkets and making sure that common sense is applied.
"Supermarkets can sell anything that can be sold in any other type of shop that isn't required to close. In the meantime, please only leave home if you need to."
Earlier, the Welsh government issued a statement saying the ban was "not for the sake of being difficult".
The leader of the Conservative opposition in the Welsh parliament, Paul Davies, branded the ban "madness" and said he has written to the presiding officer of the Senedd to call members back so they can debate the measures.
The popularity of the petition was a "clear sign" that people wanted the rule "scrapped immediately", he added.
The lockdown, which ends on 9 November, bans people from leaving their homes except for reasons such as buying food and medicine, providing care or taking exercise.
It also means people should work from home where possible.
Leisure, hospitality and tourism businesses are closed, as are libraries, community centres and recycling centres.
Places of worship are only allowed to open for funerals or weddings.
It has been estimated that the lockdown could cost the economy more than £500m.
On Saturday, Public Health Wales said 16 people had died with COVID-19, bringing the total to 1,772.
There were also 1,324 new cases of the virus confirmed, making a total of 41,577.
In addition a virus expert has warned figures have not “come tumbling down” despite Scotland’s miniature circuit-breaker across its central belt this month. For just under two weeks, Scotland has imposed stricter measures across certain areas including the closure of pubs and some other indoor venues.
The Government had suggested the measures would only be temporary, lasting for around 16 days.
However, the First Minister then announced the restrictions would be extended for a further week.
On Friday, she confirmed the country would take a “new approach” with a five-tier lockdown system.
Analysts say it could place businesses under restrictions for ‘the foreseeable future’ rather than relaxing them.
Emma McClarkin of the Scottish Beer & Pub Association told The Telegraph the situation “cannot continue”.
She added: “We were told that these measures were to be ‘short’ and ‘sharp’ but now the Scottish Government have gone back on that, leaving operators feeling betrayed.”
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He told the Sunday Telegraph: “If you close the pubs, you're going to stop pub outbreaks.
“You're addressing little bits of the transmission route, but not really getting at the fundamentals, which is making sure people who have the virus, and their contacts, are kept away from everybody else by self-isolating.”
In a press conference on Friday, Ms Sturgeon insisted there were “signs of progress” because of the lockdown restrictions.
She admitted cases were still rising but pointed to the rate of increase “which appears to be slowing down”.
First Minister also said it is “probably still too early for us to be seeing the full impact on case numbers of the restrictions on hospitality”.
Scotland’s new live-tier alert system will work similar to England’s one, in that it will apply regionally.
The alert levels go from tier 0 to tier 4, with tier 4 being referred to as ‘Lockdown’.
Under that level, non-essential shops will be required to close as they were in the UK-wide lockdown imposed in March, though schools will remain open and ‘some outdoor meetings’ will be permitted.
Level 0 allows for eight people from three households to meet indoors, and groups of up to 15 can meet outdoors.
In Scotland, 1,433 new cases of COVID-19 were reported on Friday with 11 new deaths.
The paper by the Centre for Brexit Policy has questioned Boris Johnson’s claim that the UK will go to “Australia rules” on World Trade Organisation terms if a deal is not struck with the EU. It comes after talks reopened between Britain’s Lord Frost and the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier in a last ditch effort to come to an agreement. The report backed by senior Brexiteers including Tory MPs in the European Research Group is adding to the pressure to repeal the Withdrawal Agreement if the EU refuses to come to reasonable terms.
However, a senior minister has told the Sunday Express that repealing the Withdrawal Agreement is “more trouble than it is worth.”
The minister noted: “It is an international agreement so we are entitled to interpret it in the context of our constitutional arrangements so it is not that problematic.
“Added to that as time goes on and it becomes more distant the agreement becomes less relevant.”
However, the paper by the CBP has raised concerns about the long term impact of the WA.
It concludes that the legal guarantees the Government has already given to Brussels mean that Mr Johnson’s fall-back option cannot be secured without a radical overhaul of past commitments.
The CBP also points out that unless there is a big change of tack, the Government risks breaking promises it made in the 2019 Conservative election manifesto to “take back control” of the nation’s laws, borders and money.
The report, The 'Australia deal’: Another Impossible Dream, underlines the damaging impact of the WA and associated Northern Ireland Protocol (NIP) signed into law a year ago.
This part of the agreement, which is legally binding in international law and would give Brussels lawyers a field day, binds the UK so close to the EU that it will not be able to match even the bare-bones trading agreement that Australia has with the EU.
CBP Director General John Longworth declared: “The Government is caught between a rock and a hard place. A Canada-style deal remains elusive.
"Even the far less attractive Aussie-style agreement with the EU, which amounts to little more than trading under WTO rules, looks like a pipe-dream while the WA exists.
“The only way out of this mess is to accept that the legacy deal done a year ago, which at least broke the Brexit logjam that paralysed the previous Parliament and sparked Boris’s stunning election victory, is deeply flawed and needs to be consigned to the scrapheap of history.
“Only by scrapping the WA/NIP and driving a new hard bargain with Europe can Boris deliver on his twin key promises: taking back control and getting a real Brexit done."
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The CBP has already warned in its previous report earlier this month that the Prime Minister’s stated objective of a “Canada-style” deal with the EU is impossible while the WA/NIP remains in place.
That report listed 12 reasons why Mr Johnson would be denied his Canada ambitions.
The new report says that the situation is even worse because the WA/NIP blocks even his last hope of a basic deal along Australian lines.
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