 Wael prynhandaeth i'n weithetaeth i chi gyd. Pan i was last here on Friday, I explained that if we did not see a change in the current course of coronavirus in Wales, then a move to tighter restrictions would be inevitable. Since then, far from seeing numbers stabilise or reduce, we have seen a sustained rise in coronavirus numbers in our communities and in our hospitals. Cases have continued to rise. One in five people are now testing positive for the virus. A number of people in hospital with coronavirus has risen to record levels. Today, that is more than 2,100 people. The equivalent to five full general hospitals dealing only with people who are sufficiently ill to need hospitalisation because of the virus. And now, a number of people in intensive care with coronavirus is also rising. It's at its highest level in this second wave at 98 people. Now, many of you will have seen the warnings from our senior doctors about the huge impact that coronavirus is now having on the whole of our health service. The situation we are facing is extremely serious. I have to tell you today that the Welsh Government has made the decision that we must move to alert level 4 and tighten the restrictions to control the spread of coronavirus and save lives. This new set of higher level restrictions will apply to the whole of Wales. I am making this announcement today to give everybody the most notice we can of the changes that will follow. All of this means that all non-essential retail including close contact services and all leisure and fitness centres will close at the end of trading on Christmas Eve. All hospitality premises will close from 6pm on Christmas Day. And on December 28, at the end of the 5-day Christmas period, tighter restrictions for household mixing, staying at home, holiday accommodation and travel will come into force. Now, I understand the impact that this will have on the lives of individuals and of our businesses here in Wales. We have made £340 million available to support businesses affected by restrictions into the new year. Further support will now be made available for those businesses affected by these new restrictions and we will make further details of that additional support available by the end of this week. This has been such a long and difficult year but that cannot lift the responsibility from us to act now, given the circumstances we face. This action is necessary to save lives, to support the health service and to control the spread of this awful disease. Of course, we are not alone in facing these difficulties here in Wales. Across the world, coronavirus is accelerating once again. More than 300,000 people have now lost their lives in the United States. Here in Europe, Jeremy, Germany, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic have introduced new lockdowns this week. We too will take further action in the run-up to Christmas in order to help control the spread of coronavirus. Everyone who can work from home should now do so. Working from home is one of the most important contributions we can make in our own daily lives to dealing with COVID-19. Local authorities will now take decisions about the range of services they provide, such as libraries, leisure centres and recycling centres ahead of Christmas. Today is the last day of school for the majority of children in Wales. Most schools are taking the last two days of term as inset days. And we will work with local authorities and the police to strengthen the enforcement of the coronavirus regulations and the guidance we provide to make sure all the measures to help keep us safe are in place and are being fully and properly observed. Yesterday I met with the First Ministers of Scotland in Northern Ireland and with Michael Gove from the UK government to discuss common arrangements for the five-day Christmas period. We have had a further meeting this morning. In a few short weeks since we made the original decision, the situation has changed considerably as coronavirus has gripped the UK once again. Later today we will publish further joint advice across the United Kingdom, explaining that a smaller Christmas is a safer Christmas, that a shorter Christmas is a safer Christmas and that here in Wales in particular, the advice of the Welsh government is that only two households should come together to form an exclusive Christmas bubble during the five-day period. The fewer people we mix with in our own homes, the less chance we have of catching or spreading the virus. Nobody wants to be ill at Christmas and none of us want to give this deadly disease to our closest family or friends. The Chief Medical Officer for Wales has already provided special advice for those people who were previously shielding about mixing over Christmas. This is available already on our website and in the joint advice that we will publish this afternoon, this message to those most vulnerable people in our community will be reinforced across the United Kingdom and here in Wales. The alert level four restrictions for household mixing, staying at home, holiday accommodation and travel, will, as I said, come into force after the five-day Christmas period on 28 December. This year has been unlike any we have known and the weeks ahead will be very difficult. But the new year does bring with it some promise as more and more people receive the COVID-19 vaccine and we use new testing technologies. Today we start vaccinating people living in care homes and we will continue vaccinating the priority groups during the alert level four period. Vaccination will continue throughout that time. And in January we will start using the new rapid result tests to help people stay in work. The aerial testing will be used in schools as an alternative to self-isolation for teachers and students and that is being extended to the police and will be used to support care home staff to enable them to stay in work. In the meantime it is all those small things that each one of us can do in our own lives to provide the greatest protection to ourselves, to our families and by doing all of that to keeping the whole of Wales safe. Diolch o galon fel arfer i chi gyd. I will now take some questions and as usual all the answers are broadcast live on our own social media channels. First today is to go to Owen Clarke of BBC Wales. Diolch yn fawr prif Weinidog. Rhaid i'n cael ei gael yr atebion i'r dda i gwestiwn es yn gymerai cyfyd os gwylch yn dda. Talking about the Christmas period in particular, what is your modelling telling you about what impact preventing people from going out shopping on Boxing Day and beyond will have on rates of infection compared to what impact not allowing households to mix could have had if you had chosen to do that. Some might argue you are tinkering around the edges and not addressing the key threat over the Christmas period. Diolch ar Owen. Well I don't think I could have been clearer and the advice that we will provide across the United Kingdom I think will be very clear as well that the modest amounts of additional freedom available to people over the Christmas period must be used carefully, responsibly and cautiously and provided that happens then people will still be able to enjoy Christmas without the dangers becoming such that it would be disproportionate to the freedoms that are being allowed. There is more than one form of harm from coronavirus and to prevent people from meeting at all over the Christmas period would bring a different sort of harm with it. I explained on the floor of the Senate yesterday the messages that I have been receiving and they are deeply affecting messages from people explaining the impact that they would be on them if we were to prevent people from having any form of Christmas at all. The modelling does demonstrate that if we were to have a position in which large numbers of people would come together for Boxing Day sales then that's another form of mixing and whenever people get together the risk of coronavirus rises we are not in a position in Wales today where we could knowingly allow those risks to take place such is the seriousness of our position that we will have to act to minimise those risks wherever we can. We will do that over the Christmas period through the joint advice that we will publish today and then we will take the actions that I have set out. So, acando rydw i'n mediad o'i dros y danysau wedi'i gyd heddi yn glir, ni gyd yn gafin ei pethe i'r defnyddio'r arryddu sydd anid dros yn y ddolig mewn ffordd, sy'n ofalles, sydd ddim yn creu fwy o problemau i bobl sy'n agos a atoni. Mae mwy na'r gynghwm o newed sy'n dod o coronavirus. Ac i dweud i bobl, does dim cyfle o gwybod i chi i daffli na ddolig degillydd bydd hwnna'n cael effaith ar bobl mewn ffordd eraill a'n amais iechyd meddwl ac yn y blaen. Ni'n wedi neud y penderfyn ni arda i ni'n dwi wedi cyhoeddi panhau'r ma. Achos, mae'r sefaffa ni'n wneb i amma anghymru i'n mor ddyfrifol. Dydyn ni ddim yn gallu osgoi neud pethau sy'n helpu ni i tynnu nôl yn ni fyrw bobl sy'n dioddau o coronavirus ac bobl sy'n dioddau mewn ffordd beth mae rhaid iddyn nhw cael tryniaeth yn ein asbytau. Dyna pam ni'n ddweud bydd dim cyfle i bobl mewn mas i siopa ar ôl a anodolig. Mae hwnna yn mynd i helpu dynna beth mae'r modellais i ddani yn dangos y dynna pan ni wedi neud y penderfyn ni arda i. Diolch yn fawr, prif Weinidog. The advice, as you stated, was that no more than two households should mix during this period but can you confirm the rules still allow for three? Are you just passing the buck on to people for that? And what is your message to the NHS staff which you mentioned in your opening statement that have essentially been pleading with you in recent days to tighten up the restrictions or not to loosen them over Christmas? Beth yw'ch neges chi i'r staff y gwasanaeth iechyd? Well, my message to staff in the National Health Service is that we have listened very carefully to what they have said and it is why I have made this announcement today partly to demonstrate to them that we are determined to do everything that we practically can to make sure that coronavirus, that the rising tide of it is held back, reduced and the impact on our National Health Service is addressed in that way. If we were not listening to them, if we were not understanding the messages they are providing to us, I wouldn't be standing here making what will be for many people a very difficult announcement on the conditions we will all face in that immediate post-Christmas period. During the firebreak period, we saw an impact on hospital admissions within 10 days of us taking those actions. That means we can have some realistic expectation that with what we have done already, the restrictions in hospitality, the restrictions in schools, the closure of attractions, that we will see the impact of those further measures immediately after Christmas, feeding into reduced pressure on the health service in January when otherwise those pressures would be at their most intense. So it is exactly because of listening to what we have been told that we have drawn forward these announcements, drawn forward these restrictions because of our concern for the health service. On household mixing, the position in Wales is clear. I'm afraid people will have to wait for the statement that you will see this afternoon. The position in Wales is so serious that over the Christmas period, only two households should get together, and we will continue to allow one single person household to join in that arrangement over the five-day period. Yne, ges ydy dda fi, i'r bobl sy'n gwythio anangos ynaethau iechyd i wedi gwneud i ganddo. A ni wedi gwneud i ganddo ar beth mae pobl yn ddweud, yw wedi diart beth mae pobl, a ddweud y dyna pam, dwi wedi ddweud beth wedi ddweud pan hannwad. Dyna pam mi wedi tyni yn egeisio'n, a i hefyd, dyna pam mi wedi tyni beth hynny'n mynd i wneud, i wneud nhw'n syth ar ôl y nadolig. A trwy wneud hynny, a gyda'n popeth ni wedi wneud yn barod, yn y maes lletigarwch, ac yn y maes ein ysgolion, a ni'n gallu cael hader byddai'r effaith ar y gwasanaeth iechyd a mynd i cael ei weld yn ystod y mis iwn ar. A mae hwnna'n pwysig, ac os mae lot o'r pethau eraill sy'n wneud byddai'n gwasanaeth iechyd yn misio'n bob blwyddyn, dyna pam mi wedi wneud beth mi wedi wneud ar ôl clwed bydd mai pobl sy'n gwreithio ar ar-engflain yn dweud i ni ddweud am yma. A dyna pam dwi wedi bod yn glir am y neges i bobl dros y cafnod yn y ddolig, dim ond ddau ailwyd sydd wedi ddod, dygylid am ynghymru. Mae yna sydd fel ffa môl fifrifol a dyna'r y neges glir o ddiwrth ni fel ddraeth a bydd rhaid i bobl ar os tan yn y prynhau'n maen awr i weld hwnna yn cydestun a gyngor ni'n mynd i cyriffhau dros y dyna sy'n edrych i gyd. O'r fain diolch yn fawr, ddynch chi'n fytrwyddiol Maestres a'r ITV Wales. Thank you First Minister. I wonder could you be absolutely explicit about the Christmas household bubbling arrangements because I'm not sure that you have made it absolutely clear that your advice or the regulation has changed. It's no longer three households that allowed, it's two households and that is a break with the four nation agreement so perhaps you could explain why that's happened as well. I think I'll be as clear as I'm able to be at this point Adrian. The result of the meetings between the four nations has not yet been published. I cannot anticipate that statement. That would be unfair to all the other governments of the United Kingdom. So let me be, I don't think the top message is as clear as it can be. Here in Wales over the Christmas period the clear message from the Welsh Government is that only two households should meet. That is how serious things are in Wales. Whether that's guidance whether that's regulation, the message is the same. The message is identical in either case. Only two households should get together. That's how serious things are. I can't go beyond that until the results of the discussions between the four governments are published later today. Thank you and on the introduction of level four restrictions on Christmas day at six o'clock. If the advice is that the situation is so serious in Wales that it requires that, why not introduce that now? Why wait until Christmas day or Christmas evening? Well you will remember Adrian all the difficulties that were faced by the hospitality industry when we made the last set of changes. We are anxious to not to face that industry with additional difficulties at this point. And we are very alert to the fact as I've said a number of times already today there's more than one form of harm from coronavirus. We know that many people who live alone arrange their Christmas by booking a meal on Christmas day so that they can be in the company of other people. I wanted to be able to honour that so that those people do not face an even bleaker Christmas even more alone than they otherwise would be with all the other harms that come from that. Everything we do is a balance between one form of harm and another, allowing hospitality to continue at 6pm on Christmas day protects the plans that people have made particularly those who are lonely and isolated and allows the industry itself to come to an orderly close. Adrian thank you over to Thomas Evans on S4C. Y Prif Weinidog diog. Rwy'n y troeddedd nawfed o ragfyr o ddysaith o dyrrydd lleol ar draws y dyra synedig a oedd ar gyfraddu o fyddi'n dignau yn ei cymru felly pan bod y cyfyniad yma lle fel pedwyr yn mynd i fod ar draws cymru gyfan ac ar pawb o'n tyddech chi am ymrywio hynny fesel ardal. Thomas Diolch yn fawr. Wel a ganddo'r ni wedi gael o ddiwrs prys oedd o'r meddagol a pobol eraill e wedi cael un set o'r eoliadau sy'n ar draws cymru i gyd mae hwnna'n fwy effeithio. Ni wedi weld yn lynden, yn y dyn ni, dros yr wrthnos dweitha, o'r lynden dan cyfyniadau level 2 yn loigur a mae hwnna ddim wedi gweithio. So i cael pob i'n o'n ni dan yr un set o'r meserau mae hwnna'n mynd i warchod ni'n just bobol yn y ddeu o mae'n mynd i warchod bobol yn gogledd cymru hefyd felly fel wedais i, ni'n mynd i ailedrych ar y cyfyniadau a'r otair wrthnos os mae pa trwmau wedi digwydd ble ni'n gallu weld yn glir ac yn gynnaladwy mae wahaniaeth rŵm un lle yn ymniad a daloedd eraill achon i feddwl os bydd hwnna'n y bobl mewn a'r anbarthol a mae'n bydd yn dibynni ar y sefachfa ni'n gwneud fi ar o'r otair wrthnos. So Thomas was asking me why the level 4 restriction should be agreed across the whole of Wales where because levels of the coronavirus differ in parts of Wales and I simply explained that the advice that we have had is that a simple set of national measures would be the most effective way in the virus. We will review the regulations after three weeks if some parts of Wales have established themselves as being in a different position in a reliable and sustainable way then that is the moment when we will see whether it will be sensible to introduce some regional differentiation but we won't know that until that time and those changes would need to be exactly that sustained and reliable. Thomas Diolch. Diolch hynny. Yn siŵr yn oeddoedd ych chi am gyflwyno'r myser y level peddwyr yma yng Nghymru, ond ydych chi'n barod nawr i gyfath efo nad oedd y cyfnod clwbair, y toriad tan os o fech chi yn wedi gweithio i'r level hoffech i efo'r wedi gweithio? Wel na, o'r toriad tan felly ryw wedi esboniol, o'r toriad tan yn gweithio a o'r toriad tan yn ei popeth o lwn i'n disgyl i'n gweithio i'r toriad tan i'n ei wneud. A problema ni'n wineb i ew, beth sydd wedi digwydd ar ôl y toriad tan. A mae'r unifer o bobl sy'n diwrnod o'r coronavirus wedi cynnyddu a'n gyflwmach nad oeddwn i'n disgyl nad oedd o'r modellau yn disgyl a hefyd. Ond rwy'n gwybod o'r y cyfnod clwr nad anffaithio a'n tyni unifer o bobl sy'n diwrnod i'n tyni ar lefel ar i lawr dynna pan. Mae rhaid i ni ail naid hwnna sydd fel ôl anodolig. Thomas was asking whether the need to go to level four restrictions suggested that the fire break period we had in October and the start of November had not succeeded and I explained that that period actually did deliver everything that we had expected of it. It reduced the number of people suffering from coronavirus. It reduced the positivity rate. It reduced the number of people flowing into hospitals. It delivered everything we hoped of it. The problem has been in the period afterwards in which coronavirus has circulated again faster than we or the models that we have available to us had predicted and that's why we have to return to this more serious level of restrictions immediately after Christmas. Thomas Diolch yn fawr y draw i Adam Hale of PA. Fawr dda chi plefynu dog. In your mind do the number of emails you did yesterday speaking of people's heart rendering please not to reverse the agreement. Can we equal weight to the pleas from those working in strain hospitals across the country and the apparent majority of people across the UK who would be fine with the measures being scrapped? Well they all weigh with me. Of course they do and as I've said this is a terrifically difficult balancing act dealing with all four harms that come from coronavirus. At the very top of my mind has to be the advice we have from our national health service about the pressures that it is under. The number of staff in our health and social care system who are unable to be in work themselves because of coronavirus that has to be at the very top of my list of considerations. But I cannot simply set aside what I hear from people about the impact of cancer in Christmas would have in their lives because those mental health harms are equally real for those people and that's why we can never have a simple all the advantages lie in one direction all the disadvantages lie in another. Whatever course of action you take you are carefully having to balance the risks, the harms and the positive outcomes that you are trying to achieve from them and the people who write to me whether they are people in the health service or whether they are people who are facing a very bleak and difficult period after a very bleak and difficult year well of course all of those things have to be weighed up. Dill, has our Welsh NHS the capacity to deal with the inevitable effects and it is inevitable isn't it of writing cases and hospital admissions over Christmas because of these black restrictions that you are sticking with? Yes, the Welsh NHS is coping now with coronavirus. What I remember saying on Friday was this that the risk we run is not that the NHS cannot cope with coronavirus but that in coping with coronavirus it ceases to be a national health service and becomes a national coronavirus service only able to deal with that demand and we know that that is not what people who work in the health service the Welsh Government or the people who use the health service would expect. Every day our health service deals with people who are suffering from serious illnesses heart conditions strokes cancer services what we are trying to do here is to reduce the impact of coronavirus in order to sustain all those other things that the health service has to do. If we were in a position where coronavirus continued to rise unabated then in the middle of January we could see nearly half the beds in the Welsh health service occupied by people who are so ill with this dreadful disease that they have to be in a hospital bed in order to get the care that they need that is half the beds that are not available for everything else that the health service needs to do so it's not that it can't cope with coronavirus the health service will do that but it's the impact that that has on everything else that we need the health service to do that's what we're trying to safeguard and the way to do that is to get on top of this virus by all the actions that we are taking and that we need people in their own lives the impact of the virus on the health service that will allow the health service to be there when we need it for everything else that we rightly look to it to provide. Adam Diolch Over to Will Hayward at Wales Online. First Minister people desperate to keep to the spirit as well as the letter of the advice will be keen for some clarification regarding the only two households coming together in Wales so can I just ask what households mean to support bubbles and what happens to single person households and how does the advice work for children with divorced parents can they travel between the two and does that two household advice apply to people travelling across the border and finally if I may does the compassionate rule still apply that we've seen previously? Right, well I'll try to remember those you will remind me if I don't because I thought you made a very important point at the beginning which is the majority the vast majority of people in Wales don't make a distinction between guidance and regulations and so on they just want to know what is the right thing to do and the right thing to do in Wales this Christmas is to stick to two households mixing that's not two sets of two households that is two households so we've for a while now in Wales had an extended household made up of two households people should stick to that we will allow a single household that is not currently part of that extended household to join with that extended household over the five days of Christmas that is still something that we would allow children of parents who are separated will be able to travel between them for during the Christmas period as we had previously indicated and people who move across borders have to observe the rules that exist in the part of the United Kingdom that they are visiting so rules in Scotland are already different in this regard and it's the rules of the place that you are in that you have to observe so people leaving Wales to go elsewhere must be careful to know the rules in whichever part of the United Kingdom they are visiting and to observe them thank you the compassionate rule if I may well the compassionate rule I think is captured quite a lot by the ability of a single household now to join with a two household extended household so the need for that compassionate rule is I think has been tackled in a different way thank you and so by way of clarification a single person could join with another household and they as one bubble could join with one other household that's fair to say and so I want to ask about the impact of the restrictions on hospitality if I may and should we have locked down two weeks ago instead of just closing hospitality in order to avoid these increased restrictions over Christmas well hindsight is a wonderful thing and I have a feeling that I answered a question from you Will at the time of the decision on hospitality which suggested that we were going too far in closing hospitality as we did then and I answered many many questions of that sort that simply of course from you we followed tier 3 restrictions at that point and tier 3 restrictions we looked at what happened in other parts of the United Kingdom the model that we adopted which has allowed hospitality to stay open until 6pm to allow people to have a meal without alcohol you know that's a very significant set of restrictions far more restrictive than existed before and the evidence from elsewhere in the United Kingdom is that that would be effective we're still waiting to see the impact of that here in Wales it's less than two weeks since that change was made we're having to go beyond that now I doubt very much that if we had announced the complete closure of hospitality when we did so 10 days ago that that would have been regarded by most people in Wales as a reasonable step in the circumstances as we know knew the men things have deteriorated and deteriorated quickly during the two weeks that have followed hence the need to take even more stringent measures thank you well thank you to Dan Wilson at LBC thank you First Minister you've spoken a lot about the guidance for two households to meet at Christmas for the majority that I no doubt will take up that advice it means that one household that perhaps would have had plans for Christmas might now be stuck alone over the festive break Scotland has decided that three households will be allowed on one night of that five day period and for the rest of it two households why not maybe adopt that approach I just think it's because the advice we have had from our behavioural scientists in particular is that simplicity of messaging really helps people to know what is being asked of them and then to allow them to sign up to what is being required so there are many variations that we could have thought of around this message in the end our decision has been simple is best and that leads us to the position which we face in Wales where numbers are significantly different to Scotland much more serious than the position Scotland currently faces to a position where our unambiguous message to people in Wales is over those five days two households should get together with the additional single person household being able to join them and anything else trying to say two households but only so many people three households can only meet on one night another I just think it dilutes our ability to get the core message over to people in Wales about the seriousness of the position we face clarity, simplicity leads to better results Thank you and obviously as you well know you stood at that podium a handful of times now since the firebreak lockdown was announced in October constant changes being announced which the public might find slightly confusing are you worried that you may be losing trust amongst the public Well I worry all the time about the need to take people with us on this difficult journey it is part of the reason why we decided to move this announcement to today to give people the maximum period we could to learn about what we are saying and why we are saying it The choices between trying to always keep the most freedom you can for people and then to have to change that reasonably regularly as the position changes or to be blunter about that and to take measures that people don't regard as proportionate to the position as they see it and we've obviously had that debate a number of times here in Wales when we decided to go into the firebreak when we introduced changes to hospitality my job is to go on explaining my job is to go on providing people with the evidence the unchallengeable evidence that we see today in our health service with a number of people so ill that they have to be in hospital with the numbers rising of those people who are so ill even in hospital that only a critical care bed is sufficient to meet their needs that's my, the part I can play is to go on providing that advice providing that information taking the actions we can take and doing it to the maximum extent we can in a way that takes the people of Wales with us on this immensely difficult and challenging journey Dan, thank you to Robert Evelyn of ITN Thank you First Minister you said in response to a question from the Press Association just now that the health service in Wales was coping yesterday we spent a shift with the Welsh ambulance service which ended up with us at Bridgend hospital we saw nine ambulances stacked up outside that hospital it's not an uncommon sight it would have been the heath the day before it could be the brand new Grange hospital every single day and I'd like to tell you what the clinical director for emergency care told us while we were there he said the whole system you could say it to the crisis point you could argue it's beyond the crisis point I mean with the ambulances outside like this there's a strong argument that we are beyond crisis point this is not safe it was an assessment that is bleak as anything I've heard in the last 11 months how is the health service coping really while the health service is coping because it continues to see to admit and to treat the people who come to its door is it able to do it in the way it would wish to do it well those stories just demonstrate the level of pressure that the health service is facing today and that is exactly why I am here making this difficult message to people in Wales ahead of the Christmas period that we have to take even further action and more stringent measures to respond to exactly the position that you saw if it were not for the seriousness of it we would not be having to convey these difficult messages take these difficult decisions and restrict lives in Wales as they will be restricted increasingly over the days ahead and then even more significantly in the weeks immediately after the Christmas period but First Minister the Princess of Wales hospital is full you can't just empty it they are stuck they've got too many people coming at the front door they can't get people out the back door so to speak and let me give you another example of what's going on down there swab results are causing a lot of problems people are waiting not just 12 hours or 24 hours or 30 hours in that hospital they sometimes wait 40 hours for swab results they wait so long that they have to re-swap people in the hope that they get a result back what on earth is going on with your health service well Rupert I don't think anybody listening would have any difficulty in answering your question what is going on with the health service is the effect of the public health crisis that we face here in Wales the number of people who are suffering from coronavirus and the speed of its circulation is leading to the stresses and strains that are absolutely known to the Welsh Government are vividly portrayed in what you have said are communicated to us by senior clinicians in the health service and have led to the decision that I have announced today if anybody was not convinced by what I have said about the need to take these actions and the responsibility that we all share in putting these things into practice in our own lives then I hope that they've heard what you have said because unless we can convince people in Wales of the seriousness of the position we face we won't do what the last person asked me a question is we won't succeed in persuading people in Wales that the actions we are taking are justified and that the contribution that they have to make to everything that everybody else is doing has to be maximised in order to draw the heat out of the health service and to allow it to cope both with the coronavirus demands and with everything else that the Princess of Wales and every other hospital continues to try to do every day for grief at the daily post Good afternoon First Minister I think everybody understands the gravity of the situation but it does appear that it's more serious in some areas than others in several counties in North Wales for example, Gwynedd and Anglesey the infection levels are more than 10 times lower than they are in parts of the south You have previously alluded to the possibility of realisation at some stage So why can't this be implemented now at the outset? Because that would not be in the interests of people in North Wales As I said in an earlier question we have seen in London where a lower level of restrictions failed to prevent the rise of the virus and now greater restrictions have to be in place I think that to offer a lower level of protection to North Wales families would not be consistent with the duty that I have as First Minister It will be an easy thing to do because I hear the calls why are you expecting people in North Wales to do this Well the reason we are asking people in North Wales to do this is because this will protect people in North Wales the impact that would otherwise be felt then coronavirus is rising in every part of Wales it is rising in the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board area as well By taking action on an all Wales basis we act to protect people in every part of Wales and as I said earlier if we reach a position where a stable pattern of differentiation has emerged where it is clear that some parts of Wales are reliably in a different position where numbers are falling not growing then the plan we published on Monday allows us to make regional decisions we are certainly not in that position today when we come to the three week review of the measures that will come in after Christmas we will look at that of course I will not be prepared to offer North Wales a second class level of protection when I know that the measures we are taking will save people's lives in that part of Wales and I want to do that every bit as much there as I would in any part of our nation Thank you First Minister By allowing some degree of household mixing over Christmas won't you simply be extending the length of the lockdown in January and how long would you expect this to last are we talking weeks or months By allowing any additional level of household mixing we add to some harms and we mitigate others we add to the harms that come from the numbers potentially rising that is not inevitable the freedoms are not an instruction I am asking people again today we will be asking across the four nations of people to use those freedoms responsibly, carefully cautiously and to minimize harm but we mitigate harm as well we mitigate the harm of loneliness of isolation of the impact that this awful virus has on people's mental health that is the balance that we are striking over those few days a few days that matters so much to so many people here in Wales as elsewhere I can't offer you a prediction of how long this will last it will last for three weeks in the first instance I said earlier that there was small grounds for optimism given what we saw in the fire break period that we begin to see the impact on our health service within 10 days our measures being taken and we've taken some measures already so it isn't we will need to track that carefully see where it gets us review it at the end of the three weeks and then see whether it is possible to alleviate any of the measures on a regional or indeed a national basis Andrew, thank you over to robtailerdrexham.com Good afternoon you've said further support will be available for businesses affected by new restrictions and details will come through this week can you give an overview of what that will look like and will it reflect say earlier this year when the full lockdown was in place i business rates grants economic resilience fund and will it also reflect that this time of year is often when businesses make more of a turnover well the fact that businesses can trade right up until Christmas is part of a recognition of our final point Robert you made and it's another balancing of harms isn't it there are health harms, there are economic harms it's absolutely right and the messages have been very clearly conveyed to us by the sectors that this is a very important trading time of the year for businesses in Wales they will be able to trade right through that most important period there will be many millions of funds additionally provided in help to businesses as a result of the restrictions that will come into place immediately after Christmas we will announce the details of that before the end of this week I am keen to make use of the routes we have already used to get that help to businesses in the way that you've described because the more we can use established routes of getting help to businesses the quicker that help arrives with them and I was pleased to report in the senate yesterday that the help that we promised as a result of the restrictions on hospitality that hundreds of businesses and millions of pounds are already being provided to those businesses where we've been able to use routes that we had already established thank you and there's been a small scale vaccination for frontline health care staff at Wrexham hospital however the executive director of primary community care at the north Wales health board has said there was plans for further vaccination in north Wales however those plans are changing due to a limited supply of vaccine what is the issue with the vaccine supply and when will it be resolved well the vaccine is arriving in Wales it's arriving according to the schedules that we agree with the UK government I always wanted the health service to have the most ambitious plans for vaccination and as the supply of vaccine steps up particularly as we continue to hope that regulatory approval is given to the Oxford vaccine still potentially within this calendar year we will be able to maximise the impact of vaccination in frontline staff and Rob as you will know it is in north Wales today that we have the first vaccination of care home residents we are already vaccinating care home staff but we are starting the process of care home resident vaccination today in north Wales provided that all goes according to plan we will be spreading that rapidly to the rest of Wales as well First Minister are you in any way embarrassed by the handling of everything that's happened today I've just watched the Prime Minister at Prime Minister's questions in Westminster the laws on Christmas won't change but you've just changed the guidance in Wales and Nicola Sturgeon has just said that there's no agreement on the guidance across the four nations of the United Kingdom the impression is from these calls that one of disorganisation of confusing bickering and that's putting lives at risk why can't you get your collective acts together Well the meeting that I attended this morning certainly wasn't characterised by bickering it was characterised by a very noble reflection on the level of challenge that we are facing across the United Kingdom we will publish today a joint statement strengthening the advice that we give to people across the United Kingdom as we move into the Christmas period we had a discussion about how quickly that could be supply and of course the quicker it can be done the better but I made the point that it was more important to me to get that advice right than it was to get it rushed that is not a sign of the system not working or of people not working together it is simply a sign of the seriousness of the position we all face and our determination to get the advice to people right But First Minister in the end the Prime Minister is emphasising that there can be three households meeting over Christmas under the law and you're emphasising the guidance it should only be two Do you not concede that as at the very least confusing? Well not if you live in Wales it won't be confusing because in Wales it is the Welsh Government that people have to look to for that advice You have to recognise that the position is different in different parts of the United Kingdom as it has been through the whole of the coronavirus experience I want to be clear and have been clear this morning that in Wales we face a particularly challenging moment As we go into those five days of Christmas the unambiguous position of the Welsh Government is two households only should get together If you want to avoid the sorts of difficulties the Rupert Evelyn was setting out from the visit he had made to one of our hospitals that is the contribution that you can make in Wales is the position that the Welsh Government is advocating this afternoon Sam, thank you very much to Yolo Jones at Golwg 360 Rwy'n hamdag Brif Weinidog Ti'r cyfnod hyn fys dweitha rwy'n gwneud gwneud sy'n wlu'n medaw iaith Dominic Cummings, Brif Mgynghoredd, Boris Johnson a'r Bryd Mae'r gwneud dyfalu wedi bod am oblygiad a hyn i'r arangweid wedi'i gdowning street in Le Gwbl Hanolwechach a'r cydweithio achyfydrebi a gydrona Fyddi chi fod drwy'r cymryd i'r profi neu wedi agwedd gan Llywodraeth Sam Steffan Dwi'n gofyn hyn am ychydbwynt wedi cwino salgwaith yn bachetwyth mae'r brifynas a'r adega yw'r gwmewn cydysig yn COVID-19 Wel, diddian wedi weld neu wedi dros ammys dweitha, dwi ddim yn siŵr pan mae hwnna, wedi digwydd wedi tri alu paswadio'r Llywodraeth y Dynus a'r cyfnod o coronavirus i gyd Just i roi fwy o cyfleion i ni dod a'r gyllid mewn ffordd sy'n dipyniadol a dyma beth ni wedi ddweud dros ammys dweitha, ni wedi cwrth bo'r othnos mwy na gynwaith am ni fed o othnosau So, dwi'n croes awi hwnna, mae'n help fel oeddwn i'n dysgu'r Just i'n clwed beth sy'n mynd ymlaen a'n gradif eraill yn y Dynus i nadig i orangu wedi bodai'ch i orangu beth sy'n mynd ymlaen dda ni a troi hwnni i neu dipynnydd o'r hynny a dda'i gorau ni'n gyd yn gallu neu So, yw'r Llywodraeth yw'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio i'n gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio i'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio i'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio a dda ni'n ddifartiwch o'r Dominic Cummings I have no way of linking what has happened to any particular individual or event but the facts are simply that over the last month we have had a more regular and reliable pattern of engagement with the UK government and I welcome that because I've tried to make the case throughout coronavirus that regularity of engagement leads to better sharing of information better understanding of different perspectives and in the end better decision making Wedyn o ran y rhael gwestiwn mae'n edrych byn y trofodaeth wedi bod yn yr Alban yng Nghylch Darchedu Cenedlau De Wasg yr S&P naeth BBC i'r Alban gwythogi i darchediad ym mismedu oherwydd pryderon yn bayos a dath probid o'n sgiliau hynny ac yn dyweddar mae'r angenlwydd George Folks sy'n ei lodd o Blaid Lawr ychblaid chi wedi gael yw arioffcom wedi gweithio'i gwهoedd hyn yn rhywun gwaith dros o'r ddwe amidad o'r dath o'r dath o'r iddiitholiad Holyrood nesawu Yn beth i'ch ei mewn lwrth adeil yma bod cenedleddau COVID y flapwm pleidiol yn y gysylltaw a'n masin a'r cyhoedd os angen i'r oleddsodd comri o'r newfallu sy'n sydd yn rhaid o'r ddweud o'r dath o'r sm employed sy'n wneud ohono'r dylpan yna, ond mynd i'r gweld eidio'r ddefydliad o'r ddweud Ales dros ben i fod yn dig i bob blad, fel y ffordd draeth ni wedi ar roi cyfleo'n i'r arweinydd yr wrthblad ac i'r arweinydd flaid Cymru i dod i fewn i cael sgwrs gyda syddogion i'wch ni i clywedoddiwrth nhw, a mysafolfa ni'n a wneb i a dwi wedi trio bob tro ni'n wneb i penderfyniadau maen nhw. Nid yw'r rhan i beth sydd tiol y penderfyniadau na ac i'r oi rywfath o amser cyn ni'n gwneud nhw yn goydus i'r arweinydd a pleidiau a pereil. Nid yw yw'r wygr yn cyfeirio i chi'n gwneud hynny? Yn amser i chi'n gwneud hynny, nid yw'r wneud hynny mewn am ystod yma yw'n gyfer ymwyaf sydd yma ar gyfer y maen nhw. Yw'n creu'r hynny'n gwneud o'r ymwysig o'r hyn sy'n gwneud hynny'n gwneud hynny'n gwneud. Thank you very much indeed, first minister. You've referred at various stages today to balances of harm. Against the background of the NHS experiences reported earlier by ITN can I ask you to look specifically at the balance of health care harm where doctors make life and death medical decisions, say, for example, to treat a COVID-19 patient, whatever their state of health, ahead of a seriously ill non COVID-19 patient. Felly, rydyn ni'n dweud yr awdrau, throwi'r modwch i chi, ac yn ymrwysig y bod yr effeithio findaniaeth newid ar y knosion o'r cyflawn i'r FNHS o'r hwrs, Rydym efallai iawn gyda'r fanl기를. Felly, mae hwnna fydd yn gyflawn i gael ei safon, yn fuamio i sicredu i ddweud i gael pandes gwaith y canllun i gael elas i gael hi gyd-roffin Const пользовatio i ddweud ei gael dangos y fanloedd ychydig yn gweithio. Fyrdd yna hwnnw I Todd, yna byddai ei hwnnw'n eich gleif, yn gallu gwneud yng Nghymru sy'n gobeithio, sy'n cael ei sîl am gyrfaedd. Felly ei chylau gwahanol er gweinio yr eggwyddon ymlaen. Felly ei chyfion i fynd i wnaeth ym ddwyll dros yng nghymru, felly mae'r gwneud ar y positionau bod yw yw ei siarad o'i gwirionedd. Felly mae'r newid yn rhywbeth. Mae'n wedi ei meddwl rhywbeth wrth yn ffrif o gychwyn i ddau'r amser, Doherwydd ar y llwyso hell o todio ymddangos ychydig yn oed yn mynd i rydyn ni'n llawer o'r llwyso hynny'n lle gan ystafell mewn dywch gyngor mwynhau mewn helydd ychynig hyn a'r wokyfiwn i weld i'r angen am zewni'n arfer mae'n hynny. Beth sy'n gofyn i'r llwyso hynny'n hynny o'r bwysig pwysig, yn credu gwahodddiau ymlaen i ddim yn ei ddim yn ei ddim yn ei ddim yn ei ddim yn ei ddim yn ei ddim yn ei ddim yn ei ddim yn ei ddim yn ei ddim yn ei dwyd. Felly, yna'n gweithio'r bwysig i'r unrhyw gwestiynau am gweithio gondoladau ffiannolol. Felly, mae'n gweithio'r ffiannol o bwysigio'r bwysig i ddweud. Rydyn ni wedi gweld yn hyn byddwch â'r troffaeth yma. Rydyn ni wedi gweld i'r gorau gwroeddiwodau oherwydd ymgyrchio'r gwrth nefydd a hynny ni'n adrodd o'r dwbl a oswyl gyda'i gweld o'r rhino ymgyrchio. Rydyn ni wedi effeithio gyda gyda'r cyfgawr enwedig. Mae genny'n credu am gyda'r cyfawr deuluant gynnwys yma ar unrhyw o fewn. Roedd yn ysgol yn hynny arweith inni gyda'r cyfwyr. Felly dyna'r tyfan o amlwg â'i gyllidau yma yn ddod, ond ychydig ar lawer o'r rhagliannodau oedig, oedd yn cyfrifio ar yr ad modec ymlaen o'r peth. Lliwyddordeb yn bobl dawnol o'r 19 cyfrifio yma, oedd ydych chi'n ddigon i ac wedi'u tyfnol yn y ddechrau? Well, Tom, all hynny'n cael i ddefnyddiaeth i chi. Yn oeddu i chi'n eitio arall ein bod y cyfrifio yn cofysgog, Mae'n meddwl i chi'n gwybod i'r gweithio ar y GNHS ydy, mae'n rhaid fod yn ymweld o'r rhaglen yng ngyfyddiad o'r hwn o'r cyfnod rhaglen yn cyrgyntafol, mae'n mwyaf ar y cerddau yn cyrgyntafol ar gyfer y rhan o'r rhaglen yng Nghymru. Felly, mae'n rhaid yn gweithio ar ôl. Rwy'n gweithio'n gwneud amddangos ar ôl, oherwydd mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'r gweithio ar gyfer hynny. Ond wedi bod yn ei wneud y gweithio, mae'n gweithio'n gweithio. Yn gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio, dwi'n gweithio ardeddlu cyfnodd, dwi'n gweithio'n ddigwydd ynghylch i ddweud yng Nghymru, yn eistedd i'r fan y cyfnodd yma, ond yn ôl yn y ffordd o'r cymdeithas, rhaid i ymwybodol yn ei gweithio'n freidol yn ymwysig. Rhaid i'n werthio'n ei gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio, ac mae'n arddangos oherwydd ei wneud yn dweud yn dweud. Dweud hynny, bydd hyn am MK1, dweud hyn yn ei gallu gallu gyffredigol, dweud hynny yw hwnnw, yn i lluniau ar gyfan busnes. Felly oherwydd bod gennym am y wneud? Felly oherwydd bod gennym am wneud? Ond nad ymddangosol gyda lawer o'u gweithfawr hefyd, bod rydyn ni wedi chi'n erbyn gallu maes a phan yn rhaid. both of whom have serious need to be there. Thank you all very much indeed, do you come out?