VISITORS to Wales from Belgium, Andorra and the Bahamas will have to quarantine for 14 days, the Health Minister has confirmed.

The new restrictions will come into force from midnight tonight, Vaughan Gething confirmed.

Mr Gething added that Brunei and Malaysia were being removed from the quarantine list as the number of coronavirus cases had been reduced there.

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"Yesterday (Wednesday), I attended a meeting of ministers from all four UK countries to consider the public health risk posed by an increasing prevalence of Covid-19 in Andorra, the Bahamas and Belgium," said Mr Gething.

"Having considered the evidence for the public health risk now posed by travellers who enter the UK from these places, the Welsh Government will later today remove Andorra, the Bahamas and Belgium from the list of countries and territories exempt from our health measures at the border.

"Together with other UK ministers, I have also considered the public health risk posed by a decreasing prevalence of Covid-19 in Brunei and Malaysia.

"As a consequence, the Welsh Government will also later today add Brunei and Malaysia to the list of countries and territories exempt from our health measures at the border.

"These amendments will mean that anyone who arrives in Wales from Andorra, the Bahamas and Belgium or who has been in any of those countries or territories during the last 14 days will be required to isolate for 14 days as of tomorrow (Friday).

"Anyone who arrives in Wales from Brunei or Malaysia, on the other hand, from tomorrow will not be required to isolate for 14 days."

The other UK Governments will impose the same restrictions, but they will not come in to force until 4am on Saturday.

Brunei and Malaysia are not the first nations to be removed from the list of countries that require visitors to Wales to quarantine.

Serbia was removed from the list on July 11, while restrictions on Spain and its islands were removed on July 26.

Latvia, Estonia, Slovakia, Slovenia and St Vincent and the Grenadines have all previously had restrictions imposed in Wales.