We are interested in characterising the commutative rings for which a 1-tilting cotorsion pair (A, T ) provides for covers, that is when the class A is a covering class. We use Hrbek's bijective correspondence between the 1-tilting cotorsion pairs over a commutative ring R and the faithful finitely generated Gabriel topologies on R. Moreover, we use results of Bazzoni-Positselski, in particular a generalisation of Matlis equivalence and their characterisation of covering classes for 1-tilting cotorsion pairs arising from flat injective ring epimorphisms. Explicitly, if G is the Gabriel topology associated to the 1-tilting cotorsion pair (A, T ), and RG is the ring of quotients with respect to G, we show that if A is covering then G is a perfect localisation (in Stenström's sense [Ste75]) and the localisation RG has projective dimension at most one. Moreover, we show that A is covering if and only if both the localisation RG and the quotient rings R/J are perfect rings for every J ∈ G. Rings satisfying the latter two conditions are called G-almost perfect.