First Minister Mark Drakeford has announced that almost all coronavirus rules will end in Wales from Saturday as the country moves to alert level zero.
But as he called on people to 'continue playing their part', some mandatory measures are to remain in place.
While nightclubs will reopen and rules limiting social mixing will be lifted, Mr Drakeford dismissed talk of 'Freedom Day 'because it's not all over'.
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“Hundreds of people every day are still falling ill from coronavirus in this third wave and while vaccination has fundamentally altered the relationship between falling ill and hospitalisation, it hasn’t eliminated it," he told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
“So while today’s a good day here in Wales, a day for optimism here in Wales, it’s also a day on which we ask Welsh people to go on making those contributions which each one of us can make to keeping each other, and Wales, safe from this awful virus.”
As rules differ across the four nations, with lockdown rules in England scrapped as of July 19, it can be confusing for those visiting Wales this summer.
Here, we've outlined what Covid measures remain in place in Wales from Saturday, August 7:
First Minister Mark Drakeford said the wearing of masks in shops, health and social care settings, and on public transport will still be mandatory in Wales as it is a “simple precaution” against Covid-19.
However, masks will no longer be needed in hospitality settings from August 7.
Mr Drakeford told BBC Radio Wales that shops are enclosed public places as well as people’s workplaces, where they will be for “hours on end”.
“We know that they are places where the risks of coming into contact with somebody else with coronavirus is run,” he said.
“It’s a simple precaution. It doesn’t cost us very much to wear a mask for the brief time that we are in a shop, and we’re making our contribution in doing so.
“In other parts of the world where mask-wearing was lifted, it’s having to be reintroduced again, as it was last week in the United States of America.”
Also from Saturday, people in Wales who are fully vaccinated against coronavirus will no longer legally be required to self-isolate if they come into contact with a positive case, however those who aren't jabbed must continue to follow the isolation rules.
It's the same regulation that is due to come into force in England from August 16.
Children and under-18s will also be exempt from the need to self-isolate.
Those who have symptoms or test positive for coronavirus must continue to isolate for 10 days regardless of their vaccination status.
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