IT is unacceptable that critical workers in Wales have had to drive to Hereford to be tested for coronavirus, Wales' Health Minister has said.

It comes after Vaughan Gething said he had heard reports that people in Wales had not been able to use the UK Government's website to book appointments at drive-in testing centres in Wales.

The Welsh Government scrapped an online system which had previously been set up and instead merged with the UK Government's website.

At yesterday's Welsh Government's daily coronavirus briefing, Mr Gething said: "Initial figures show that in the first four days of the online booking system, more than 600 tests were completed by people in Wales using this route.

"We're finalising work in the process of bring the testing centres in Wales, which are run by different organisations, onto the online booking system.

"Subject to some important final testing, I expect these sites to be offering online booking by the end of this week.

"In the meantime there are easy links to the booking arrangements for these centres from the UK Government website and indeed our own Welsh Government website.

"I have though heard some reports of critical workers being referred to testing sites as far away as Devon or Hereford and that is not acceptable.

"Testing is available in Wales for Welsh critical workers. We will continue to work with the providers of the UK website and the 119 telephone system to iron out any of those quirks in the system."