Schools in some parts of Wales are closing early for Christmas and moving to blended learning, but concerns have also been raised about what will happened in January if cases of the Omnicron variant surge.
Four Welsh council have announced that schools will close early this week pupils with returning to remote learning amid rising Covid cases and staff absences.
Face-to-face lessons will cease for pupils in Wrexham, Anglesey, Flintshire and Denbighshire. You can read more about the closures here.
The Welsh Government has said no all-Wales decision to shut schools early has been made and decisions rest with individual councils and schools.
But when asked about concerns schools may not be able to re-open after the Christmas break in January, Health Minister Eluned Morgan said that it was something that was being "assessed and reviewed".
Speaking at the latest coronavirus briefing on Tuesday (December 14, she said: "All of these issues will be assessed and reviewed. We are already discussing where the greatest risks are., and the things we can control as a government.
"Where we think compliance can happen, and where it will be more difficult to ensure compliance. We have got to bring the public with us.
"These are very, very tough calls and we will be making those assessments as the situation changes and we see those rates increase."
Ms Morgan said it was too early to say how Christmas would look as the situation changes, but she has said that more restrictions are likely to be introduced at the latest review on Friday (December 17) . Read everything that was said at the briefing here.
The next review of restrictions in Wales will be announced this week, after the reviews were moved from every three weeks to weekly as cases of the variant increase.
There have been 30 confirmed cases in Wales, but UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid said on Monday that Omicron is causing around 200,000 new infections per day in the UK.
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