 Wel, prynhawn ddau. mae gen i'n fwy o 10 ddweud o'r cyd-faserydd yn ysgol yn Wales yn gennym. Dwi'n gweithio'r ffrindiau o'r ystafell yw'r ddweud o'r ffaserydd yn ysgol, sy'n ysgol i'r ysgol yn Wales. Yn oed, mae'n gweithio'r meddwl yw'r ffaith yw'n cymryd arweinydd. that there is good evidence that the Welsh firebreak has had its intended impact on the transmission of COVID-19. You can see from this slide just how far and how quickly cases of coronavirus have fallen in that period at the right hand end of the slide. We've seen a consistent reduction in the rate of coronavirus across Wales in the last 10 days. Rydyn ni wedi ei dwylo'r cyffredig yn fawr i'r acid hwn yn ein tlenedd. Mae'r bythdodol y gallan o'r pethau a'r holl yn gallwn gwyddiadol yn ymlaen. Rydym ni'n fawr y 7-todion hwnnw, mae wedi yn eich hwnnw ar 162 gaf angen bethau a'r ddwyw 100,000 gaf hwnnw i'r gwael. Dwi ddyrau dda fel hyn wedi gaf 20 gaf per 100,000 gaf yn unis mwrn, i gael cael 350 cwysig per 100,000 o bobl yn Blinogwent. Blinogwent is now the highest area in Wales. We've seen a huge drop in the case rates in Merthyr Tidwell, from a high of around 770 cases to now around 250 per 100,000. But of course we need to see that figure improve further. And that's why we will start our first mass testing programme in Merthyr Tidwell this weekend. We will offer testing to everyone living and working in the local authority area over the coming months. And I hope of course that as many as possible of Merthyr citizens will come forward to take part in this very first mass testing programme in Wales. We've also seen as a result of those figures a fall in the R number. The latest estimate for R and that was a week ago was between 0.9 and 1.2. And the latest ONS infection survey has just been published at the end of this morning. The results suggest that the number of people with coronavirus last week in Wales has fallen by about 40% compared to when the fire break period was instituted. Now as we would have expected, we're yet to see this translate into a sustained reduction in pressure on the National Health Service. The wave of cases going into the NHS is always going to be about two weeks behind what we see in the community. But we have seen the rate at which people are being admitted to hospital in Wales with coronavirus stabilised over this last week. Nevertheless, there are still currently the equivalent of more than 50 hospital wards full of people seriously ill with coronavirus. And many of those people may end up being in hospital for up to three weeks. And very sadly, we continue to see high levels of deaths involving coronavirus here in Wales. The Office for National Statistics has said that there have been more than 3,100 coronavirus-related deaths this year. And those deaths are now back to their highest level since mid-May. In every one of these briefings, I want to take a moment to acknowledge the experience of families of all those people and those people who have died during this second wave of coronavirus. It's right that our thoughts are with those families and with those communities. I want now to turn to what is happening in Wales today and what is likely to happen in the weeks ahead. We have always said that the real and lasting impact of the firebreak would depend on how we all act once that period was over. And here I'm afraid the news is more mixed. Most people in Wales go on sticking with it, doing whatever they can to help turn back this deadly virus. But this is not universally the case. I receive letters and emails every day from people all over Wales worried about how others are socialising in large numbers or gathering in their homes. Our police forces have reported in the post-firebreak period that they have had to respond to more than a thousand coronavirus-related incidents where the behaviour of a selfish minority is putting everybody else at risk. Now many of you will have seen just this morning that as Northern Ireland is coming out of a long period of lockdown, the Northern Irish Executive has announced plans for a new two-week circuit breaker, a new lockdown which will start on Friday of next week. And new strict restrictions are being introduced in large parts of Scotland including Glasgow to control rising cases of coronavirus there. Now this is exactly what we are trying to avoid here in Wales. It's against that background that the Cabinet this week reviewed the national measures we have put in place in the post-firebreak period and we have decided not to change them. There is no room for a further relaxation of those measures and they will remain the same for the next two weeks. And we need everyone, every single one of us to play our part to make sure that we continue to build on the progress of the firebreak and to keep those coronavirus cases falling. And it's simple, we know what we have to do. We have to reduce our contact with other people as much as we can. We have to avoid travelling unless it is really necessary and we need to work from home wherever we can. If we do all this together then we can have a path through to Christmas. And I know of course that many people will be planning for Christmas and will be hoping to see family and friends over that festive period. We are working closely with the Scottish, the Northern Irish and the UK governments to develop a common four nation plan to help bring people together safely over the holiday period. There's been a great deal of speculation about what a plan may look like but it's still being worked on. And here in Wales we continue to respond to this global crisis by planning first and announcing those plans next. And that has to be the case for Christmas arrangements as well. Now this year has been a very difficult one for all of us. We have all had to cancel or postpone plans as all lives have been affected and put on hold by the pandemic. No one enjoys the stop-start nature of this year and we are all looking forward to when our lives can move beyond coronavirus. But as I've said many times, government alone cannot stop this virus from spreading. The power to prevent people catching the virus lies in the hands of each one of us and the choices each one of us make every day. We know that coronavirus is a highly infectious disease. It thrives on human contact. That's the reason why we ask everyone to keep their contact with other people to a minimum and to think carefully about where we are going and what we are doing. If we go on doing this together we can keep ourselves or families and we can keep Wales safe. Diolch yn fawr iawn wrth gwrs i chi gyd. I will take questions now as usual and as ever all the answers will be broadcast live on our own social media channels. First of all today over to James Williams of BBC Wales. Can I get this answer in Welsh and English please? We're currently seeing the benefits of the short lockdown period and the numbers are still dropping and because of the lag we expect to see that continue perhaps over the next week or two. But as you say minority doesn't seem to be complying with the current restrictions so I'm just curious about the timing of this. There's a chance isn't there that from the start of December we start to see those numbers rising again in the lead up to Christmas. And so therefore isn't it inevitable that you're going to have to do something before Christmas to really if it's just a tight restrictions or another lockdown to deal with it and give you that space for Christmas. Well I wouldn't agree James with the word inevitable. It isn't bound to be the case but it can't be ruled out that it would be the case either but it's in our own hands. Nobody is making this happen other than the things that we ourselves do and if we do the things that we have been talking about ever since the lockdown period then we can still have a pathway through to Christmas. If people react to the end of the fire break as though coronavirus was over and that there's nothing more we need to do then it's very likely indeed that we will see coronavirus come flooding back into our communities and then we will be faced with another series of difficult decisions. But that's why my message today to people is that doesn't have to happen and the way to avoid it happening is by doing the simple things that we've talked about so often. Avoiding human contact where you can, only travelling when you need to, working from home when you can. All of those things will make a genuine difference and if we do that we can still build on what we've achieved together in the fire break period. If we don't do that then coronavirus will be on the rise again and we'll be back into the position that we faced in the middle of October. So, just to iddweud, does im rhaid i ni fod nôl yn y sefyllfa oeddwn i'n myneb i nôl yn mishadref, mae'n anodd dwylo ni i gyd. Os ni'n neud y pethau syml, allwn ni'n cario mlaen i neud pethau degillydd ac i adoladu ar y llwyddiant ni wedi gael yn y cyfnod clô dan yn y toriad tan. Os dydy'n ni ddim yn gwneud hynny? Wel, mae yng Ngalygi, ni'n mynd i'n nôl atys y fylfa oeddwn i'n myneb i yn mishadref. Os ni'n neud pethau degillydd, neud y pethau syml mae llwyddiadau ni, dal da ni tan yn y ddolig. Diolch. A'r cyfnodd i gynwys ymwng ymddangos gynhwys, rydyn ni'n dechrau hynny o'r gweithio gyda'r Caergyffredinol U.K. o mynd o'n mynd i ddweud ymddangos cyffredinol. Why is that? Is it partly because all four countries are in very different places? We're going to have another lockdown in Northern Ireland, tighter restrictions in Scotland, there's a lockdown in England till the start of December. maen nhw'n mynd i ddweud rhywleisio'r llyfr o gyllideb yn ymgyrch yn maen nhw'n mynd i gyfnodol. Felly, mae'n dweud bod ni'n gwneud yma ar gyffredinol gyda'r rhagl, ond yw'n ddweud rydych chi'n gallu thr polls? Roeddwn ni'n ddweud yn gwneud y rhagl. James yw'r cerdd o'r ddweud yn ein bod ni'n gwneud i'r rhagl, ac mae'n ddweud i'r cerdd i'r rhagl o'r cyffredinol, Ond hyperboleau, ond ar-fyddwyd yngyrchau ar四 retwyr realisticadau hyn. A wir당odd y raddaf yn rhan iawn urxxfaroedd ar hyd ar hyn gyllywedd. Yn Ysgrif zrobiwn rydych chi'n gwirlo ar fyddwyr fel gywir o'r pthysigolfa ddechrau'r ardal. Da rhydych chi'n dweud wrth datblygu hynny yn fônio a ddweud yr oedd ymyrdd. Naró . y cyfnod y dyfodol yn cynghwil y gallach y nesaf. Cymru hynny'n gwneud eich cyfnod ar gyfer y prinsiebl argyrch arall a gweithio, ond roedd hynny'n credu bod yn periwyd ar y llan o'r common. That's what we've asked our officials to work on together. And there will be a further meeting once that work is complete. We've asked for our chief medical officers also to review the work that is being done y gallwn gwneud y fforddau cofnod o'r perthynau cyllidrach yn gwneud i'r ffordd a willu'r ffordd y gyrch arall, a gallwn i'n gwybod i'n ffordd, i'n gweithio'n gwybod yn gynyddiadau'n gwybod yma, fel y fan y ffordd. James Steeleol Fyld. Adrian Masters, Yn Ysgrifennu ITV Wales. Yn y gweithio'r Fyld yma. Rydw i ddim yn gweithio y cwmpu'r gweithio, wedi'n gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio'r gweithio? gyda'n digwydd o'r gPC o'r datbydd diwethaf, o'r hollu, o fath o'r fath, o'r hollu? Si'n defnyddio'r dynnu gyda'r hollwchol dondol yn holluogau'r hollwchol yn hyn, ac mae'n reoli trefydd o'r hollwchol o'r hollwchol yn bobl, yw'r bobl, o'r hollwchol o'r hollwchol yn eich dda i'r ddwyf yn oedol o'r hollwchol? Rydyn, dyma'r ddwylo sydd yn rhan o'r hollu, Robyn a Rwys. Mae'r ddysguoedd yn ymweld yn ystod y prysgafion cymryd y 4 o'r Fnogaethau ac ymweld yma yma ychydig, felly o'r maen nhw'n gweld, mae'r ddweud o'r ddweud o'r gwasanaeth yn ymwyledd. Rwy'n ddweud i wedi bod yn y rwyf. Rwy'n ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud, a'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud i'r ddweud. Llyweddau mewn brol Chynyddiad, mae'n e Pizzaidio Gweithio Ion Ier Diquadraeth, ond mae'n dweud a neud efallai ei defnyddio i chi o'r ddechrau. Ond fan i, mae'n ddosid i fewn i ddefnyddio'n adeilad am trefynol ein dweud, ond mae'n ddwydo'n llawer i ddweud i ddim yn ymddwynt a'u sigw ymddangosol lle'r cyflecなeth yma hwnnw. Dwi'n dweud weithio i Gweithio Ion Iddy, yr yng Nghymru sydd yn arddangos yma hyllaf yma hefyd hunting hynny ddechrau y cyfnod. Rhyw gwybodol y ysgrifennid differentiationr yn gweithio gweithio'n ddefnyddio i'r ddalod y ddefnyddio gyda'r ffordd gyda'r cyfan a chynnyddoedd ar y byddaraod gael ei wneud, ond mae bryddoedd â ystafell o 4 ysgrifennidchiedات ddefnyddio i'r dduch i gyd y dyfynodd yw i'r ddau ddechrau'r cyfyrdd a'r ffordd ar y ddangos gwyddoedd yma, gwnaeth, at gennym, bywyd yn hy Gru hyn o rai memurio gwnaeth. The Chancellor is reportedly looking at freezing public sector pay in the areas the UK Government is responsible for in order to pay some of the cost of the pandemic. Are you considering looking at any kind of public sector pay freeze in the sections the same reports and I really hope that they are not true the notion that the costs of dealing with this pandemic should be heaped on to the shoulders of frontline public servants seems to me to be exactly the wrong answer to the experience we've gone through together and it doesn't make sense to me in sheer economics to extract purchasing power from the economy ydych chi'n gwybod a'r economa hwnnw, sy'n bwysig i'r gweithio yr ymarfer, yn ei gweld i'r fforddau o'r ysgol ym mwyaf o'r gweithio ar gyfer y cyfathol, a'r gweithio ar gweithio'r gweithio, yn cael ei wneud hynny yn lleolio ar gyfer yr ymddor. Yn mynd i'n mynd i'n gweld i'r FIF, rwy'n gwneud yn cael ei ffysgol ym wrthymol ym mwyaf o'r economa hwnnw, ymddor o'r ymddor i'r gweithio, yn bachu ar hyn o fwyaf o'r ymddor. Y problem ar y deadliadau i'r ydych chi, Adrian, yn wneud i ddim yn ei wneud iddynt eu mynd i ddweud o ddechrau i Anglennu, ond mae'r cwrs iso gywe yn imbryd yn cael bod i'r ffirmidag byd Ni'r Cyddiers i ddatach i eich bleidio i'r ffyrfan o ddweud i rhan o gyfyrdd yma. A byddwn ni wedi bod ydych chi ddweud y gallu cefnogi'r ddylamiadau, ond ei ddweud i ddwyll defnyddio yr Ymgyrchu Dyn Dau My efforts are focused on saying to the Chancellor, please don't go down that path. It's neither fair to the people involved, nor does it make sense economically. Yr Edwin Draw E Adam Hale, PA. You mentioned measures in place or in place elsewhere across the UK, at times when Wales yn Wales, a'r Pwg Fyglwyr yn Wales Cymro, ac yn Llywodraeth Pwg Fyrdd yn gyntaf y regent, ond, mae'n gyrhaifft fo 11 a'r Prima. Rwy'n cael ei cyfnod i'w fwy o'r gwych i'r lockdown a'r hyn yn ymgylchedd yn ymweld y ffordd. Ond, mae'r effeithio'r cyffredinol yn dda, mae'n rhoi'r cyffredinol a'n gwneud, yn ymgylchedd yn ymgylchedd, yn gweithio'r cyffredinol i'r cyffredinol, yn ymgylchedd, yn gweithio'r cyffredinol, ac yn gyfrynwyr gwael ymddangos iddynt i gydag, y cwylio gwybr a dewisio'n gwneud hynny a'r bwysig, oedd yw'r hyn ar gyfer yr unig? Gweithio'n bwysig fel ymddangos. Mae'r bwysig fel yma, gweithio'n bwysig fel ymddangos a ddydig, fel ydym ni'n gweithio'n gweithio, yn byw. Ymddangos i gweithio'n gweithio'n gweithio, yma'r bwysig fel ymddangos i wneud eich ffyrdd ymddangos, ymddangos i'r bwysig fel ar gyfer, If you delayed, you would just end up having to have a longer fire brake to achieve the same effect. So I don't think that it would be a fair reflection to say that by going early we have created risk. What we have done is to act early in line with a scientific advice to reduce the risk. Now I just go back to what I said in my opening statement, that we have created gyda'r platform sydd yn gyfieithio gyda'r cyfairiaethenol ac yn rhanolion platformol, rwy'n credu hynny am oed y bydd ein bod yn ei wneud hynny, a'r flynyddoedd y brif. Felly, ei wneud hynny'n gyrsaf gyda'r platformol arall, fel oedd mae'n gallu masrach yn cyffredin ni'n gwybod. Ond mae ydy'r cyfrifydd aeth yno efallai i ddoledig. Ond y galla cefydlu i ddoledig byddwch ei ddechrau oherwydd i risu o'r gallu hynny yn ei ddaid am fywau i'r misoedd y pethau ynghyrchu. Ychydig. Yn ymlaen eich cyffredinol, ond ond mae'rкаim yn ei brofiadau a'r cyfraeg ar y cyhoedd yr ydych chi a chi am ddigonol, yn y bwrdd, o ph Gaza a Angela Mhylch. Gofyn, mae'n ddigonol ar y Cymru. Ond wrth gyd-ganol, yw'r cyhoedd. A'n gwybod i brofiad dros y cyhoedd ar y cyhoedd, ond dyna'r cyhoedd ar y cyhoedd, ond mae'n gyrw'r cerddau ar y cyhoedd, ond mae'n beirio'r cyhoedd, amser mae'r cyhoedd erbyn yn gofyn gwleid. felly o'r proffesiad bwrdd yn ymddangos. Ond y ddwy'r ddweud yma hynny'n nhw'n lawer o'r holl o'r pryd bod rhan o'r f说iadau i mi oherwydd i'r cerddiau, i'ch holl o'r cyfrifio'r rheidiau i'ch rhaid o'r holl o'r rhan o'r holl o'r f说iadau, how it factor in things like a movement of people from one part of the country to another and as I say how we plan together for the fact that in any relaxation when people mix and get together Coronavirus will spread. That's what this disease loves and if for the special reasons of Christmas we are to allow more of dwi'n dda i'r cymdeithasol, mae'n dda i'r perioedd hynny yn ddalig yr oedd effaith ar gyfer maen nhw'n ynnig. Felly, rydyn ni'n pethau i'r Unedig, sy'n dda i'r gael y byddai'r gwath yma i fynd, a'r ddweud i'r ddym nhw'n defnyddio'r ddweud i'r ddyddol. Adam Diolch yn fawr yw, rydyn ni'n ddann Bevan ar LBC. Rwy'n meddwl am ystod yn ydych chi'n amlŷn. y bwysig yw'r h LSF o haes bryzeis yn ei gweithreid ei wneud hon. Mae fyddai mae'n gwneud ei fod o ffoxigiau a roi'n gweithio i fynd o'r holl. Dwi'n ddifwyr eich holl yma i gael yw nid y rhai o'r newid awardedd, ond mae'n croes o whatszol, ond mae nid yn nid yn y galag. Mae hynny'n mynd i chi'n mynd i wnaeth ymddangos cyfnodol. D orchestral, gweithio, Dan, Mae'r meddwl yn yw'r meddwl mewn ymlaen i'n ae� ac yn ôl iawn i gael eu bethy â'ch tremygu sy'r coronavirus. Ond yn hyn mae'r meddwl yn ôl allan gwybodaeth yn y llwyddoedd, mae'n adredu amser yr adrwyntuau, a'i gwybod y bydd hynny'n eisiau ddoch chi wedi tymorol. Fe wnaeth cymryd cyfrithio'r cyflogfyrdd o'r cychwyn gael hwn yn cynnig o'i gyflwg yma. Rydw i'n fwyaf yn gorffod ddweud o'r sector a ddechrau ddweud o'r argyftiau sy'n dros ymgyrch, oherwydd y maen nhw'n gweithio'r cyffredinol oherwydd mae'n rhaid i'w gweithio. Rwy'n dda i'r ffioedig o'r cyffredinol i'w cyffredinol o'r cyffredinol, mae'n rhaid i'n ffordd i'w cyffredinol i'r 25 o Deisemba. Oherwydd, oherwydd, yma rydych i ni'n ffordd yn y cyfrifnol o'r cyfrifnol gyfnodol y gallwn gofyn nhw i'r cyffredinidol o gyfyniad yn awr yn gwybod a ddefnyddio'r rysg gynnyndoeddfa gweithio. Ond rydyn ni wedi'i gweld eu cyn Christians, gweld llawer o'i amlwg sydd wedi'u gynhygoedd gwneud ymddi, ac yn ffalu i'r gweithio'r meddwl i'r edrych a'r beth fel pathun o'r fathon yma ym ni'n cynnig ychydig yma. Yn yw'r gwnaeth ym ni'n cael chi o'n meddwl i'i gweithio yma yma ar gyfer gyfer gyfer mynd yn ddiwyddiadol, am ddiforol i'r unrhyw ystod o'r ysgol yn ysgol yma? Dyma'r ddweud hwn yn ei gael. Yn y ffaffr, mae'n rhoi'r hyn o'r cyffredig ymweld yma yma am 15 o'r ysgol yn Llangoslen. Yn y ddweud y pethau i'ch gweithio ar gyfer y pandemi, ond dyma ni'n fydd ymddangos hynny, ac ymddangos wedi gwneud y cestyn yma ar y mynd i'r mythau. Gall fod yn gweithio'r hoffi, yn y ddweud ymweld, Starsley? Well on the first part of your question, I do think that the rwars around care homes are much stronger now than they were back in the spring that we've got a much better understanding of the way the coronavirus spreads. But once corona virus is in a care home it is there with a group of the most vulnerable o'r gyfnod o'r cyd-feydd, o'r cerddau ymlaen, o'r cyd-feydd, a'r hynod o'r cyd-feydd ymlaen, o'r cyd-feydd, o'r cyd-feydd. Ond o'n gweithio'n cyfnod, o'r cyd-feydd yn ymlaen i'r cyd-feydd, o'r cyd-feydd o'r cyd-feydd. Wel, we will being thousands of these tests a day. We need to plan now for how best to use those tests both thinking about the settings where they will be most effective but also the sheer practicalities, how the tests arrive in Wales, how they get distributed to where they are needed, how people can be trained to use them effectively, how the results of tests can be fed back into the health records of people in the NHS. the NHS, you know, these are significant challenges, which are being worked on very hard at the moment, and care home staff and residents in care homes, you can be sure they are very much part of that conversation. Dan, thank you over to Abbey Wittig at Wales Online. Good afternoon, First Minister. Scotland has committed to giving one million vaccinations between now and January and saying that everybody over the age of 18 will have a vaccination by the spring. Can you make any similar commitments in Wales? Not in a position to make a commitment of that sort. I have yet to see the actual figures of the number of vaccinations that will come to Wales this side of Christmas, and I'm going to stick to the way we've done things throughout the pandemic in Wales, which is to have a plan and to work on the plan and to then make an announcement, rather than to opt for eye-catching headlines, which you then have to scramble to find a way to deliver. As soon as we know the number of vaccines we have, we will let people know how those vaccines are going to be delivered, who they will be delivered to first, and how we will build on them thereafter. But I'd rather have a plan that people can rely on rather than a headline that looks good for a day. Thank you. There are widespread reports from SAGE that for every day that restrictions are relaxed over Christmas, and that will lead to five days of lockdown. You've obviously seen those reports. Do you think that's a fair trade-off and a safe way for us to approach Christmas? Well, I think I've said a couple of times this morning that if we relax the rules over Christmas and people meet each other more, coronavirus will be spreading more than it otherwise would have been, and we need a plan to deal with that. I've seen reports of the SAGE formula, but there are other things that have to be taken into account. I'm interested in what people think about this themselves. I've been following a number of the sort of conversations you see people entering into as to whether or not Christmas is so special for people that they would think that that was a reasonable payback for it. As ever in Wales, we would like to be in a conversation with Welsh people about where their priorities would be. At the moment, I think the message is from people in Wales that they would like more of an opportunity to meet with family and friends, but your question is the right one that I have to say to people if that's what we do, then we will have to act afterwards in a way that deals with the consequences. Thank you very much. Over to Howard Griffith at BBC Network. Pranound, we see since the fire break numbers coming down over the last 10 days and shoppers going out, people mixing far more. What are your concerns about potential complacency? What are you planning if that graph goes back up again? Well, I am anxious. Howard, as I said in my opening statements of reports of people behaving post the fire break as though coronavirus had now disappeared, I've always been a bit anxious about some of the UK press reporting of vaccination as though, you know, we've got a vaccine it's all over. You can do as you like because that absolutely is not the case. That's why I go on and on as I have again today in saying to people coronavirus is still here, coronavirus is still killing people, coronavirus remains a deadly disease and the way we act in our individual lives is the difference between us being in control of it or it being in control of us. Now, because our fire break did succeed to the extent that it has, we have a pathway through to Christmas without needing to impose further lockdown periods, but it's not inevitable that that will stay the case and my message has to be to people, it's in your hands, it's in my hands, it's in every one of our hands together. The decisions we make about how we behave in our individual lives will either put us in a position to build on that fire break success or will simply put us back to where we were in the middle of October and if we are back in where we were in the middle of October then our NHS will once again be in real difficulties and what I don't want to see is our NHS simply having to deal with coronavirus cases and other things which are so important being squeezed out of the ability of the NHS to be able to respond. Diolch. As Wales came out of fire break, we came into national restrictions from Anas Montablaenagwent, the rates are massively different but we have the same rules. Why have we abandoned local lockdowns when other parts of the UK decided that's their route out of lockdowns? Well, other parts of the United Kingdom are in lockdowns of their own and for longer than we felt we needed to have one here in Wales. We have been drawing more on the advice of behavioural scientists alongside others in recent weeks and the advice we had was very straightforward really that the more complex rules are, the harder people, even people who really want to follow the rules, the harder it is for them to know what the rules are and the more difficulties to follow them and that a simpler set of common rules had a better chance of people being able to understand them and then do the right thing by them and that the different local restrictions that had grown up over the autumn were causing people to feel that they didn't know what was being asked of them and therefore that they didn't always do what was necessary. So, that was the calculation. There's always a trade-off here, it's a trade-off between simplicity, clarity and therefore the ability of people to follow the rules as against more precise, more targeted but inevitably more complex and difficult to follow restrictions. Howell, diolch yn fawr, over to Steve Bagnell at the Daily Post. Thank you, First Minister. Returning to the question of Christmas, it's appreciated people want to enjoy the festive period, but if there is any relaxation of restrictions in Wales even as it's been suggested and even compensated by a number of days after a lockdown for the day of relaxed conditions over Christmas, this will put people at increased risk. Is that a price worth thank? Well, it doesn't put people at increased risk, Steve, does it? Because people can still choose for themselves how they use those new freedoms and even if we are able to offer people new freedoms, I still hope that people in Wales will think very carefully about doing the right thing. It would not seem to me sensible even if there are more freedoms to be mixing with vulnerable elderly people who, if they were to catch the virus, it could be very serious indeed for them. So it's a matter of allowing more possibilities for people while still being very clear with people that you should think very carefully indeed about how you exercise any of those freedoms in your own lives and not doing things that pretty obviously put the most vulnerable people at risk. Thank you, First Minister. A different topic. We were contacted by someone in the holiday cottage home industry this week. We said the sector is seeking answers about when they can start taking bookings from guests in England to boost business. Now, obviously England is in its four-week lockdown. There are travel restrictions. Is this something that could be explored after? Do you think it would be months before this would be allowed to happen? Well, I met with representatives of the hospitality and tourism industry earlier this week. It was a very constructive meeting. This issue was raised with me there. What I've asked the sector to do is to work with us on a set of rules that might allow that to happen safely. So at the moment, I think, we wouldn't be confident that if people were to travel to holiday lets in Wales, that they would be arriving in the extended household to which they are confined. But the sector, I think, was very keen to think imaginatively and creatively with us, and I've given them a guarantee that at the next two-week review, we will hear anything that they are able to offer us, and we will consciously make a decision as to whether or not it's possible to make different arrangements. It will depend on those arrangements being water-tight from a public health perspective. Steve, thank you very much. Draw Ibrannwen, Jonesa, Espedwarec. Ydw chi'n cydnabod bod bod mwy'n gadaeth o'i fath yma'n hymry, angen eich cyfnogaeth i'n dopu yn ymwys o'n nesaf o'n sgiliau effaith y pandemic? Well, Draw Ibrannwen, diolch yn fawr, ni'n wedi cwrd fel Llywodraeth gyda'r yr ni fyrw weithiau yn ystod y cyfnod y pandemic, ond wrth cwrs, ni'n gwybod, a mae'r pandemic wedi cael effaith mawr ar y posibl iaith i dda'r ereddi codi arian trwy'r llanggrannog a bala ac anablan, a ni'n yw yw ddys i gweithio gyda'n nhw i helpu nhw i codi ar ymle maen nhw'n gallu ac i weld os mae pethau ni'n gallu neud trwy'r erarian ni wedi rhoi i cefnogi'r sector. Y gwaith mae'r yrdynneud gyda pobl i fank am y angymru am pwysig dros ben, a ni'n yw ddys i gweithio dda nhw i weld os, ni'n gallu fyndio ffordd i ddyn nhw ddod trwy'r ar pandemic a gallu bwrwm llanggrannog y gwaith pwysig maen nhw neud. Cri ben i dog. Ac ar pwmp cwaith anol an, sut mae'ch perthynas chi ddarllwodraeth y dynas yn etig wedi bod droswith nosa dwyethau, ac adi borys John Sennol ar eich chrestyn a ddoli Gaelenni? Wel, diolch yn fawr a ffordd mewn am eich cwestiwn. Wel, ar un ochr, mae pethau wedi wella. Ni wedi cael patrwm nawr dros y pethau ffnos dwyethau, ble ni wedi cwrb bob ythnos, a mae cyfarfodd da ni ythnos nesa, ac mae pethau yn ydyddiadur am ythnosau ar ôl hynny hefyd. So, os mae hwn yn digwydd, mae hwn yn cam amlaen, yn gallu dod, digwydd, mae'n ffordd dibyniadwyd. O'r cwrs, dwi'n angeti nhw yn llwyr gyda'r prif yn i diwg borys John Senn pan oedd e'n sôn am dathgenoli. Mae hwn ar ddim yn wir gwybod beth wedi oedd e, a mae'n cymryneu yn yr albann hefyd. So, mae'n anodd am beth waith pan i'n trial i bod yn adaladol gyda'r lwodraeth yn y dynas yn etig, pan mae'n nhw'n mor gas ar dathgenoli, a beth ni'n wedi llwyddo i wneud am yng Nghymru. Ond, dili dydd, mae pethau wedi weithla dros y pethau'r nos dweithla. Diolch yn fawr. Over to Rob Taylor at www.rexham.com. Bafnodd, First Minister. In the statement from the incident management team regarding the 15 care home deaths report this morning, they say, we would like to assure all concern that control measures have been put in place working jointly with the care home, including limiting the movement of staff and residents to reduce transmission. Will you be ensuring that such measures are in place for care homes across Wales, and why is that the response rather than the standard already? Well, it is the standard already, Rob, isn't it? It's what we've agreed with the sector that they must minimise the movement of staff between different locations, that the use of agency staff must be controlled in the same way, and that visiting arrangements at care homes have to be closely aligned with the nature of the population. So, I don't think it is a matter of the approach that we have agreed with a sector needing to be amended. It is the delivery of the approach. It is making sure that it is being properly observed in care homes. Care homes, as you know, the vast majority of them in Wales are not run by local authorities. They are run by private individuals, and there are a very large number of different people involved in that. What we have to do is to make sure that the things that we have agreed with the sector are being delivered on the ground, and the IMT, the local incident management team, alongside Denbyshire County Council and the Health Board have been helping at this care home to make sure that all the things that need to be in place are properly in place. Thank you. Is it possible to have the latest updates on the Wrexham hospital outbreak? A week here at the Health Board said there were 20 people affected, and a few days before that you said it was under control. Is it ongoing, and how many people are currently affected? Rob, I don't have those figures in front of me, and I didn't see them before I came down here this morning, so apologies, thy. Rather than trying to make a guess at it, they'll be available. We'll get them, and we'll get them to you. Thanks very much. To Thomas Moody of the South Wales Argyffs. Good afternoon, First Minister. We've seen rolling weekly case rates in areas of Gwyn, such as Glynog Gwyn, to Port and Caerphilly. They've been creeping up again, although not quite at the same rate as before the fire break. Can you share any more detail from maybe the track and trace data that you've seen on why these areas are creeping up when seemingly elsewhere in Wales these are falling? Yes. Well, Thomas, it's a good point you make, and it's a matter of concern to us that we have seen in the last few days at the beginning of creeping up in some parts of Gwyn. It's important to get under the bonnet of some of those figures because they can sometimes be driven by very specific things, like an outbreak in a care home of the sort that we've just been referring to or a workplace. So work is going on at the moment with the local IMT to make sure that we've got a proper understanding as to whether or not those figures are the first signs of an early return of community-wide transmission or whether they can be explained by the more specific events that you can deal with through the TTP system more easily. The numbers are early numbers, so I don't want to put too much weight on them, but I do want to say that we are concerned and we are taking them very seriously. Thank you. Well, on that, are these areas being looked at for the same sort of mass testing that we've seen is going to start in Merthyr Tydfil tomorrow? Has the Welsh Government got the capacity to carry out this mass testing scheme in several areas simultaneously? Well, not today we don't, but we will learn a great deal from the mass testing in Merthyr. We've been in close touch with Liverpool to learn from their experience, which is interesting, and highlights some of the challenges of a whole-town testing regime, as well as some of the very positive things that they've gleaned from it. Our aim is to put this in place in Merthyr on a sort of learning basis. When we've learnt what works and what doesn't work in a Welsh context, then we will hope that we will be able to use that to see whether we will be able to do this again in some other parts of Wales where the need arises. But I think it is important to make sure that we have that learning opportunity before we move ahead and do it elsewhere. Thomas, thank you. Over to Tom Magner at Carersworld. Thank you, First Minister. You've made a lot of announcements over the course of weeks and there are many issues to discuss. Viewers are telling me that they feel that the state of day centres and day services has been lost in the wash if I can put it that way. Some appear to have closed permanently, some appear to have closed temporarily and some have limited availability, we understand. So please can you clarify in as much detail as possible where we are now on this issue of much needed daytime help? Well, where we are now, Tom, I'm afraid, is that the picture is inevitably complex because while day centres are able to operate, they will be affected in how they can operate by at least two or three things, won't they? First of all, they will be affected by the physical space available. Some of our day centres in Wales are purpose built and very modern and some of them are buildings that have been adapted from the Victorian era. Now, when you're talking about social distancing and making sure that things are done properly, not all buildings will be equally amenable to that. So the physical space makes a difference. The nature of the people who would normally go to the day centre will be different. Some day centres have catered pretty exclusively for people who would be at the most vulnerable end of coronavirus and therefore not all of them will be able to resume in the same way because the risks for the individuals will be different. And then the third variable is staff because staff are equally, well staff are also vulnerable to coronavirus and some local authorities will have greater numbers of staff self-isolating or in contact with other people and that will be making a difference to how far they are able to reopen day centre services as well. So I'm afraid the real answer is that the complexity is unavoidable and that people are best relying not on a general rule that I could set out for them but by close contact with the centre they know and the people who are responsible for it. Thank you for that. Our Welsh viewers are worried that your country could follow the example of Northern Ireland where we where we're told that day services and day centres are unlikely to return full stop. That's the fear there and our Welsh viewers are expressing that same fear here and in light of your answer to the first question it seems that it's actually quite a realistic view on the part of that view. Do you agree with that? Well I understand it, let me say that. Of course I understand why people would be anxious about that but we don't have a blanket approach in the way they've had to in Northern Ireland where the numbers of cases that they have faced have been far higher than here in Wales and where as as you know you know having just been through a prolonged period of severe restrictions they're about to re-enter a two-week firebreak period in a week's time. Now we haven't we've been fortunate not to have faced such a severity of public health difficulty as they have in Northern Ireland and we haven't had to take the same blanket approach but are people right to be anxious? Well I can't I can't say that I that I don't share their anxiety because as I've said many times this morning if we don't do the right thing then the difficulties that they're facing in Northern Ireland could occur here but that is not inevitable. It's not the case today and provided people do the right thing the fact that our firebreak has had some success means we wouldn't need to be in a position of blanket inability to resume those really important services. Tom thank you to Nathan Shusmith at the Speaker. Thank you First Minister, good afternoon. Then about to the topic of mass testing in methodivity. What can you say to encourage asymptomatic people to get tested who may be apprehensive to get tested in case they test positive and have to isolate? Do you perhaps pressure a little bit more on having you got any idea over timescale for when you'd like to see more mass testing programmes in question one? Okay Nathan thank you. Well on the first point you know the real appeal to people in mass testing areas is to come forward because of that sense of collective responsibility. We're not asking people to come forward because there is some immediate benefit to themselves. It is that if you are an asymptomatic person and have coronavirus then the risk is without you knowing it at all you may be giving it to people who matter a great deal to you and whose lives may be at risk as a result. So the appeal to people to come forward is to make sure that you are playing your part in protecting other people. We will have at the testing centres people who will be able to give you advice immediately on the help that is available if you are asked to self-isolate so we will be able to accelerate the help that people get through the £500 payments and so on. So we will be building into the system help for people who find themselves in that position and hope that that will encourage people who are anxious for the reason that you said and which I understand to do the right thing and the right thing is to come forward and take a test that is available to you. Partly because it will tell you about your own state of health but mostly because it will make sure that you will then be able to behave in ways that protect other people who matter to you. And in terms of our ability to do more of this well that depends a bit on how quickly we get the volume of tests that are likely to be available to us and we will have thousands of lateral flow tests available every day in Wales. But there's a lot of things that we need to do with those and we've heard some of them this morning in relation to front line staff, classroom teachers and students, visitors to care homes and so on. But when we know the volume we will be able to plan for whether further whole town tests are necessary in Wales having learnt first from the Merthyr experience. Thank you. You've already answered a question today on Botsong Day sales. The Black Friday shopping event takes place this time next week though many sales are of course already underway. Would you be encouraging people to complete such shopping in as few trips as possible or even to avoid high streets where possible and shop online in order to reduce the risk of spreading COVID-19? Well what I say to people is just do it sensibly. You know don't go mad because of some sort of advertising campaign. Think carefully about the risks that you are running and the risks you are taking in relation to other people as well and if you do it that way you will think about all the avenues that are available to you. You'll think of the times of day and the places you can go and provided people approach it in that way then those risks will be minimised. If people think that dashing out to the shops because of some enticement from the retail sector to do so, then I'm afraid the impact of that will be felt not just in those people's lives but in what we will all be facing as a result. Thank you. Finally today to Alan Jones of Llanelli Online. Alan Evans, I apologise. I've got Alan Jones written down here. I'm confusing you with the Glamorgan opener of the same name. I'm the last batsman unfortunately. Diolch yn fawr. Thank you. The good news about the hard work of all the people we also put in and the reduction in the figures. Just a little bit sort of a side of the COVID but it's still related. One of the major impacts of COVID-19 has been the pressure on local authorities and the cessation of planning meetings. Those who would exploit the situation including developers have had almost free rein to begin building on greenfield sites across Wales, opting for retrospective planning as and when things get back to normal at County Hall. Does the first minister have concerns that local authorities have lost control over planning and developers and is there not a case for a moratorium now on building on greenfield sites in Wales during the pandemic? Well I'm concerned to hear what you say Alan, of course. I understand all local authorities have had to operate differently during the pandemic. Planning committees are certainly meeting. I know from my own constituency work here in Cardiff that the Cardiff Planning Committee is meeting albeit online rather than in person and that the level of public accountability therefore remains unchanged. Developer certainly don't have carte blanche to build on greenfield sites and it's a very high risk indeed to assume that you will retrospectively be able to get planning permission if you have built in places which are not in accordance with a local authority local development plan and indeed we've recently strengthened the rules here in the Welsh Government so that if a local authority does give permission for building to happen on land that is not in their local development plan for housing purposes then that decision must come in here to the Welsh Government precisely to avoid building on greenfield sites wherever possible. So well you've alerted me to the issue and I will make sure that our officials have a look at what you've said but in general I very much hope that the position you've outlined is is not one that is to be seen in all parts of Wales. And secondly Manchester's courts across Wales are ending the day with tens of thousands of pounds in the kitty as a result of people breaking restrictions. Is there a case for diverting some of that money to deserve in projects dealing with COVID-19 such as food banks and additional support for carers in Wales and if so is this a process Welsh Government is involved with looking at at present? Well I see of course the case you make but the truth is we're not involved in it because Manchester's courts are not the responsibility of the Welsh Government. Any money that is raised at a Manchester's court goes directly to the UK Government back to the Treasury in London and we have no say in how it is raised or what is done with it. So you know our fixed penalty notices in Wales are not designed to raise revenue that is not at all why they were introduced they were introduced in order that our police and our other enforcement agencies have the tools they need to deal with people who deliberately and knowingly break the rules. But when that money is collected at a magistrates court it's for the UK Government to decide where it goes and what use is made of it and it doesn't touch the sides of the Welsh Government in the process I'm afraid. But diolch yn fawr, thank you very much indeed, thanks to everybody.