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Second home owners in Wales could be ordered to leave their properties under "draconian" measures adopted by the Welsh Government, the First Minister has admitted.

Mark Drakeford said there were ongoing discussions with the police and local authorities about enforcing such a ban.

On Friday revised lockdown regulations were published, which made it clear people cannot remain away from the place they live.

This was seen in some quarters as a way of clamping down on the use of second homes as there had been calls for a ban on travelling to the properties.

Mr Drakeford told the BBC's Politics Wales programme there were human rights and legal issues that required "thinking through".

"If you are going to say to people who are in their own homes that they can be forcibly removed and sent away there are human rights and legal issues and we have to be sure we have thought through," he said.

"We have been talking to the police about the enforcement issues they would face and they in turn believe the local authorities have to be involved because it is the local authorities who know which homes are occupied on a second-home basis. We are going to work on that further."

Mr Drakeford said the coronavirus regulations had to be reviewed every 21 days and there was enough time to consider making further changes.

"It is a very draconian step indeed to say to people who are occupying a place they themselves own, of which a couple of months ago you would have been astonished to hear a Government say, that you could forcibly remove them," he said.

"If we are going to get to that position we have got to do it and be confident that the law is secure under our feet, that it is a proportionate thing to do and we can enforce it if we do decide to do it."

Last week a group of doctors from across Wales called for second homes to be made illegal during the pandemic and warned that non-essential travel to them was "highly likely" to increase the presence of Covid-19 in rural areas.

They also said there was a "very real possibility of a second peak" of the virus in parts of north and west Wales.

The First Minister is to receive the findings of a study into the under-reporting of coronavirus-related deaths in north Wales.

The investigation was launched after it was revealed that Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board failed to report for a whole month the numbers of people who had died after testing positive for Covid-19.

On Thursday, the health board reported 84 deaths across north Wales - which had occurred between March 20 and April 22.

It caused the biggest daily increase in reported deaths since the pandemic hit Wales in March.

The health board said all coronavirus-related deaths had been reported correctly, but blamed issues with the sharing of data.

Opposition politicians described the situation as "alarming" and demanded answers.

Speaking on the BBC's Politics Wales programme, First Minister Mark Drakeford said: "Ministers are entitled and the Welsh public is entitled to know that the figures Public Health Wales publishes every day are as accurate as they can be.

"I have asked for a report that will be on my desk tomorrow so that I can be sure that any glitches that have been there have been ironed out.

"I understand that Public Health Wales publishes the figures every day, they are doing it urgently, they always say those figures are subject to review.

"But I need to know, and people in Wales need to know, that those figures can be relied upon and I expect to have that confirmed to me tomorrow."

The First Minister also defended the delay in launching an online system for key workers to book coronavirus tests in Wales.

Mark Drakeford said the new system had been tested throughout the week and he wanted to ensure it did not collapse under pressure, as it did in England.

He was speaking to the BBC's Politics Wales programme as the numbers of people who have died after testing positive for Covid-19 rose to 788.

A further 178 had been confirmed as having the virus, with more than 9,000 now testing positive.

Despite daily testing capacity increasing to 1,800, the numbers of completed tests fell from 1,301 on Friday to 775 on Saturday, Public Health Wales said.

Mr Drakeford said he wanted to ensure the online booking system worked before it was launched.

"We have been testing the system over this week and we have been using it already with some workers to make sure it will withstand the pressure it is bound to come under, and we hope to be able to use it more extensively next week," he told the BBC.

"In England, where you have seen they have used it for the last two days, the system has fallen over within a couple of hours of it being released.

"That is because of the demand that system came under. We want to try and make sure our system will be robust from the first day."

Mr Drakeford said he was "confident" there was enough personal protective equipment (PPE) available in Wales to meet demand and more orders had been placed.

"Every single day we keep on top of it and, at the moment, we are confident we have enough to take us into next week," he told the BBC.

He said there was a shortage of fluid-resistant gowns across the UK and Welsh workers had enough for a further week, but stores needed to be replenished.

"On most other items we are succeeding in replenishing our stocks as fast as we are giving them out," he said.

"Let's be absolutely clear - we have not run out of anything and any requests we have had, we have met."

Mr Drakeford admitted there were "potentially issues" with getting supplies to the front line once stocks left stores.

But Shavanah Taj, from Wales TUC, said the supply of PPE was a "real issue", particularly in care homes, and she says she has heard of "real horror stories" about care workers using makeshift PPE.

"We've had examples given to us this week, where a care worker was told that if you run out of aprons, the best bet for you is to use some black bin liners and make your own," she told the BBC.

"There was another story again this week where a care worker told us they were given one mask; they were told to use that mask for every single visit they were going to be doing that day.

"After each visit they were told to place that same mask into a zip-lock sandwich bag. That's absolutely terrifying when you hear stories like that.

"There are still continuous examples of where there is just not enough hand sanitiser, and homemade solutions are being provided in plastic bottles for care workers to take around with them."

She added: "The fact care homes are now saying they may have no choice but to close if they are not provided with appropriate PPE, then that really does tell you everything that you need to know."