Covid: What is a circuit-breaker?

Wales will go into lockdown for a two-week circuit-breaker from Friday, to try to stem rising coronavirus cases.

Everyone will be told to stay at home, while pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops will shut.

The government's science advisers have recommended a circuit-breaker in England, Northern Ireland is pressing ahead and Scotland is doing something similar.

A circuit-breaker is a tight set of restrictions - it could feel a lot like the original lockdown - but crucially it would be for a fixed period of time. 

It is designed to reverse the tide of the epidemic and bring the number of cases back down.

Länk BBC