 O'r fanhau yn da, i'n rhaid i ddod, ddodd yn fawr yn gweithio mwy o'r rhaglen cerddmusiciannol. Dyn ni, rwy'n gweithio, o'r ddiddordeb yn ymgyrch yn rhaid i gydag o'r rhaglen cyfrym, ac yn y cerdd musiciaeth cyflawni yn y Llyfrgellfaedd Cymru. ac rwyf i ni'n gweithio byddai gweithio gyda'r plan newydd, i ddiweddig gweithio'r bwysig, i gael gyda ffyrdd coronavirus yn y ffeith. Rwy'n cael ei gweithio ffyrdd coronavirus o'r pwysig, rwy'n cael ei gweithio'r bwysig, oherwydd i ni'n gweithio gyda'r vaccinatio. Yn cael ei gweithio arall wedi'u gweithio'r bwysig, i gael gweithio'r bwysig i gweithio'r bwysig i gweithio. Felly, mae'n gyrsbydd yma datblygu cyfnod, a mae'n gyrsbydd yma sy'n dweud y cyfnod coronavirus yn gweithio. Felly, roeddwn i gyd gan rŵr ysgrifennu ysgrifennu sefydliadau yma, sy'n mewn cyflwyno ar gyfer y cyfrddwyr hefyd, mae'n gyrsbydd ar gyfer y newydd. Yn ystod y cychwyn yma, yw'r wneud y lle bydd yn byw yw'r effeithio cychwyn, yn ymgyrch a'r Gwyl-Pcr testau, ond yw'r fawr cychwyn y gallu'r cyfyrdd o'r Omicron. Dwi'n credu i'r cyfreithio'r cychwyn yw'r fawr cychwyn yma yn y 2 yma, o'r deisemba yn cael ei ddechrau. Ond y gallu gwnaethaf, oherwydd mae'n gwybod y cyfnod, mae'n cyflwydu'r gwrdd agorodd yn gweithio'r cyd-gredig, ac mae'r gweithio, oherwydd yma, oherwydd mae y cwrdd yn y gallu rhaid o'r gweithio yn y cyflwydu, ac mae'n gweithio'n gweithio'r gweithio'n cyfaswnol yn y cwrdd yn yr yma. Rwy'n meddwl, rwy'n meddwl 160 cwysig per 100,000 o'r populatio yng Nghymru. Ond rwy'n meddwl bod rwy'n meddwl yw'n mynd i'ch gweithio'r ysgrifennu gwahanol yma, rwy'n meddwl i'ch gweithio'r pcr testau, rwy'n meddwl i'ch gweithio'r ysgrifennu o'r pandemig yn yng Nghymru. Rwy'n meddwl i'ch gweithio'r ysgrifennu gwahanol, rydym yn ysgrifennu gwahanol, ac rwy'n meddwl i'ch gweithio'r'u cwysig sydd wedi'i'ch gwahanol ar y cyflwyno rymell yn y toilet a yn y dyflaethol yma yng Nghymru. I'r wneud sydd dweud, mae'n dechau i gynnwys ar y dyflaethol yma yng Nghymru, Ddiwyng y Gweith. Dwyaint yng Nghymru, rwy'n meddwl am y gweithio'r ffordd, is represented by the red line. You will see that, just as in the last slide, it too shows the number of people testing positive for coronavirus falling in Wales. In the latest survey, those figures suggest that around one in 30 people in Wales had coronavirus at the end of February. As you can see, levels of infection were lower in Wales than in any other part of the United Kingdom, and that those levels continue to be on that gradual downwards trajectory. Now, we've also seen falls in the number of positive cases reported in Welsh universities and a reduction in the number of school pupils absent due to COVID-19 in recent weeks. The number of people in hospital with COVID-19 is stable at around 830. And while it's good news that that figure isn't rising at that level, still with nearly a thousand people in a hospital bed associated with COVID-19, the pressures that that creates in the wider NHS remain very real and with some serious and continuing knock-on consequences on other health services and treatments. Now, as I've said, the public health situation has improved thanks to the efforts that we have all made together in Wales over recent months. The result is that in this latest three-week review of the regulations, Wales can remain at alert level zero. Protection from vaccination is very high thanks to the incredible success of the vaccination programme and the willingness of people in Wales to come forward to be vaccinated. Almost 6.9 million doses of the vaccine have been delivered since the programme was launched, and that's only just over a year ago. All of that has saved thousands of lives and has significantly weakened the link between catching coronavirus and that becoming a serious illness. And the programme, of course, is not over. We'll be topping up people's protection by offering older and the most vulnerable people a further spring booster vaccine. And we'll be offering the vaccine to all 5 to 11-year-olds. And as I say, at each of these occasions, if you haven't yet had a vaccine or you haven't yet completed your course, it's never too late to come forward in Wales. Now that combination of high vaccination rates and improving level of infections means that we are able to think about moving beyond the emergency response to the pandemic. This does not mean that the pandemic is over, but it does mean that we are able to think now about how we can live safely with the virus just as we live with other infectious illnesses. Today, we've published a plan that sets out how we can do this. While ensuring that, we can respond quickly if a new variant emerges or if we have another pandemic wave putting unsustainable pressure on our NHS. If the public health position remains favourable, we will start this transition by removing the legal underpinning of the measures we have lived with for the last two years. And we'll remove the legal requirements from the 28th of March. From that date, the legal requirement to wear face coverings will end. The legal requirement to self-isolate will end. And the legal requirement for businesses to carry out specific COVID risk assessments and take reasonable measures will end as well. But I want to be clear that the ways we have learned to behave and which have kept us safe during the pandemic will continue to be important after the 28th of March. While we have moved away from legal requirements, the Welsh Government will continue to provide guidance which will make it clear, for example, that we should self-isolate if we are ill with the virus. Businesses and employers will still be subject to the general health and safety requirements. And schools will continue to operate using the national framework. And for now, we're recommending that face coverings continue to be worn in communal indoor areas by all staff and secondary school age students. Now, as part of living safely with coronavirus, we will also be making changes to testing. Between the end of this month and June, we will gradually move away from PCR and lateral flow tests being available to everyone, to those tests being targeted now towards the most vulnerable people and the most vulnerable places. We will do this in a phased and gradual way. From the 28th of March, the routine use of PCR tests for the general public will come to an end. Lateral flow tests instead will continue to be available to order free online for anyone with symptoms. PCR testing will continue to be used to test patients admitted to hospital, to test health and social care staff, care home residents and others in vulnerable settings. We'll make a level of testing still available for surveillance and our TTP service will continue to operate above and beyond what is available now in England, where the UK government has in a cliff edge way dismantled its testing capacity. Now, as we approach the second anniversary of the pandemic, we can look forward with growing confidence that the next year will be one in which we will have this very different relationship with the virus. As we move beyond the emergency response, I know that some people, especially the most vulnerable and those who have been shielding, will be anxious about this process. But I want to be clear that the plan that we have set out will go on protecting your health and wellbeing as we all learn to live safely with the virus. By acting in that way and by drawing on the lessons of everything we have been to over the last two years, together we can go on keeping one another safe. Diolch o galon i chi gyd. Today I'll take some questions from journalists and as usual all answers will be broadcast live on our own social media channels. First of all, today over to Adrian Masters at ITV Wales. Thank you First Minister and this is to pick up on your last point really, which is that there will be some people today and in the coming weeks to very anxious about the change in the regulations or the removal of the regulations. What is your apart from saying that the advice remains for them to remain cautious. What steps are you taking to ensure that people with disabilities or otherwise vulnerable more vulnerable to COVID are protected because you can understand their anxiety that they will see that the people are not wearing masks and not necessarily social distancing and they won't necessarily know whether that somebody that the meeting has COVID or not. How can you assure them in this situation? Well first of all to say that I entirely understand that people who've been at the sharpest end of the experience of the last two years and who've often only very cautiously themselves gone back into the world will be anxious as we move beyond the emergency stage. It's why I've been at pains to emphasise today that while we are moving beyond the legal requirements the advice of the Welsh Government will remain very clear that we should continue to draw on everything we have learned and everything we have done together. While there won't be a legal requirement to wear a face covering in a crowded public place for example, the advice will still be that wearing a face covering in such circumstances goes on offering a degree of protection to you and to others. So I think people in Wales have acted throughout the pandemic in a way that recognises not simply that those actions are helpful to them but they're keen to ensure that other people are kept safe as well. And as we move beyond legal requirements and into living safely with the virus, the greatest assurance people who are most vulnerable will have will be if everybody else continues to do those simple things that will keep us all safe into the future. Thank you. Is there a danger that phasing out mass testing by what I think about June as you've just said out will mean that a future variant may not be spotted and if so what contingencies have you got in place to try to ensure that doesn't happen? I think that is a genuine anxiety. It is why we have attempted unsuccessfully to persuade the UK Government to take a more gradual approach to the run down of testing and the infrastructure that has served us so well over the last two years. Here in Wales we will devote some of the testing that we have available to us through our own means through Public Health Wales, for example, in ways that will allow surveillance to continue. Now we're very lucky in Wales. We've had throughout the pandemic one of the best capacities for genomic sequencing anywhere in the world and we've been able to put that to very good use. By continuing to make that available and some other things which will remain in place, we're optimistic although not yet confirmed that the UK Government will continue, for example, with the ONS survey that I used in the slides earlier, that all of that together will give us a level of surveillance sufficient to be able to spot. Either a new variant arising spontaneously here in the United Kingdom as we saw with what was then called the Kent variant or with a variant from somewhere else in the world being imported into the United Kingdom. We continue to have conversations with the UK Government about the need to ensure both that there is sufficient surveillance in place and that should it be necessary to step up the level of protection again through a more widespread testing regime that there's a proper plan and a proper capacity to be able to do that. Adrian, thank you very much. Over to Gareth Breyer at BBC Wales. Thank you, First Minister. Os allwch i ateb y cwestiwn enesaf yn Gymraeg hefyd os welch yn dda. Whilst you have said the pandemic isn't over, is this the moment that Wales actually starts to live with the virus? Well, Gareth, I think Wales has been living with the virus for quite a long time now. During the summer of last year, the level of protections still required in Wales was at a pretty low level. And since we've come through the Omicron wave, we've been reducing that level of protection pretty steadily now for a number of weeks. What I think we are getting to is a steady state where we have stability in managing the virus. And that's why we are able to move from relying on the law to relying on the sort of guidance that, for example, kicks in if there's a measles outbreak somewhere. You know, there are other infectious diseases that we live with, and we have ways of managing them. We're on that part we hope about me of the coronavirus journey when we will be able to manage it in that more so everyday way. And managing it does not mean ignoring it. It means taking sensible measures of the sort we've described today. So, yng Nghymru, ni wedi bod yn fyw gyda coronavirus yn spell nawr. Mae'r cyfanyadau sydd anu a hyn o bryd wedi dod lawr, wrthnos ar ôl, wrthnos ar ôl y ton o Omicron. Y gobaith yw ni nawr mewn lle, ble, allwn i cynllunio i fyw ond i'n fyw yn diogel gyda'r coronavirus fel rhan o'r pethau sydd anu ond ni'n gallu amdopu gyda'r y level o'r coronavirus sydd ar gael. Fel ni'n amdopu gyda'r pethau eraill a fel awrach gwych, mae hwn yn codi am elwaith a yng Nghymru angen gwybod sut iddeliw gyda'r effaith. Yna dyfodol y cynllun sy'n dany yw ffordd i fyw gyda coronavirus ond mewn ffordd diogel achos bydd coronavirus yn dal dany. Mae'r virus ddim wedi deflanu. Yn ymgymru, ychwanegwch cyntaf y gweithiol sydd wedi'u gweithio y masgr yng Nghymru o'r holl i'r lleol? Y ddweud yn rhan o'r gwneud o'r holl gwneud ffasgrig o'r holl i'r holl yn ymgymru ac mae'r holl gweithio'r holl gweithio'r holl i'r holl. Mae'r holl yn gallu y byddol yn gwneud o'r holl. I think the history of coronavirus in Wales has been about people being very aware themselves of doing the right thing, of doing the safe thing. I don't think that we will see a sudden cliff edge in people no longer doing the right thing because the law doesn't require them to do it. There's a good natural experiment that has happened here. As it happens, Scotland has never had a legal requirement to self-isolate. It's only ever been strong guidance from the Scottish Government and there's no evidence that the levels of self-isolation in Scotland have been significantly different to the levels in Wales or in England where we've had the law to underpin it. So, I think, and it's a really important message today, that while the legal requirements, we hope, will be lifted on 28 March, the need to go on doing the right thing, particularly in vulnerable places like hospitals and care homes, will not have ended. So, am fymarn i, ben i wedi weld dros y cyfnodol pandemig i gyd, yw bobl yng Nghymru yn isheneid a pethau go iawn, a pethau sy'n rhoi cymorth i bobl eraill. O'r cwrs mae gyfraith wedi fod na, ond dim just achos y gyfraith yn dweud rhywbeth, am beth dwi wedi weld, a dydy hwnna ddim ar eswm pam mae pobol wedi burwm lan i defnyddio mwy gawdau i hwnna yn asu ac yn y blan, ac ar ôl arwythfedd yr i gain o fawrth. Dwi meddwl, bydd pobol yn dal i ishe neu dipethau sy'n cadw a hwnna yn ddiogel ond sy'n helpu bobol eraill a hefyd. Yn pan i'n siarad am ysbytau a ble mae catrefi preswyl ac yn y blan, dwi'n siwr byd pobol sy'n gweithio yn y maes na a bobol sy'n defnyddio ar gwasanaethau. Dydyn nhw ddim yn eisiau neud dim byd i fynd i a neud niwed i bobol eraill a gada'r cangor oedd i wrth allawoddraeth dwi meddwl bydd pobol yn eswe burwm lan i neud pethau sy'n cadw pobol eraill a hwnna ddiogel a ragofn bydd cero'n y farras yn dod nôl yn y bobadau nhw. Gareth Diolch yn fawr. Overnaw to Dan Bevan at LBC. The Welsh safe is completely consistent with the step by step way in which we have a gone about dealing with the impact of coronavirus over the whole two years you saw on the slide that Wales has the lowest level of coronavirus of any of the four nations. I think that our way of doing things has succeeded. I think it has continued to secure the support of the bulk of the population in Wales and I don't intend to throw all that away in what we hope will be the final stages of dealing with the emergency phase of the pandemic. Thank you and we've been speaking with retail workers who say they've been receiving verbal abuse over mask wearing and people just simply not understanding the rules during the pandemic. Now one survey suggests that in the last 12 months 90% of shop workers have received verbal abuse. Now obviously they've made a big sacrifice throughout the pandemic being key workers. What protections are you going to implement going forward for them and I suppose how can it be made up? Well look the first thing to say is it is entirely unacceptable that anybody going about their ordinary every day earning a living should be abused by somebody else for any reason and then you're absolutely right you know at the in the worst days of the pandemic when we knew far less about it when we had no protections from a vaccine amongst those groups of people who went to work every day to make sure the rest of us could go on having food on the table were people in the retail sector so I very much pay tribute to the work that they have done on all behalf and as I say abuse is absolutely unacceptable from as you know when I speak to Asdor the trade union that represents those workers and people who've been on the front line they always emphasise that it is a small minority of people who behave in that way but most people continue to do what is asked of them to behave respectfully of other people and people who work in those settings but you know that small minority you go home at the end of the day and you remember them even when you are not thinking about all those other people who've done the right thing so the health and safety requirements will remain in law after the 28th of March we are removing the coronavirus specific requirements but that doesn't mean that obligations on employers to carry out a risk assessment in workplaces and to make sure that risks are properly mitigated those will remain in the law as they were before coronavirus began and we will be working with our trade union colleagues and with employers who in Wales in my experience want to do the right thing to make sure that where there are risks of the sort that you described that we still deal with them and it is a responsibility of managers of those premises not the people on the front line themselves to take the lead in making sure that where there is entirely unacceptable behaviour of that sort for any reason that you know that it is dealt with and that people on the front line are not expected simply to tolerate it or to absorb it as part of what it means to work in that setting. Dan Diolch yn fawr. Last of all today in a small but of course select group of contributors over to Will Haywood at Wales online. Yes perfectly formed group of contributors many. How much do you expect cases and hospitalisations to rise once you lift further measures and how different would this plan have been if the UK government had continued to fund things like PCR tests? I don't think we have an expectation that cases will necessarily rise because of the actions we're taking because you will see that we are timing our actions very carefully against the seasonality of coronavirus as well. By the time we move into the time of year when we move into a world in which the legal requirements have been removed and the testing availability has been reduced, we will be in the better time of year as well. So I think there'll be a combination of factors and it won't necessarily mean that we would expect to see a rise in numbers. Had we succeeded in persuading the UK government to take a more gradual and more proportionate approach to running down the testing regime, I think we would have been able to have kept more going for longer. And if we'd been in that position that is what we would have done. Now let me say I do think it was right and inevitable that the level of testing that you could sustain in the steady state part of coronavirus rather than the emergency phase was going to be lower. It's not an argument about reducing, it's an argument about the speed at which you reduce testing and what you have left when you reach that steady state. We would have slowed things down at a more proportionate rate and we would have liked to have seen a higher level of testing remaining. In the end when the UK government makes these decisions they have a direct effect on us when the IP5 laboratory in Newport is closed by the UK government as they intend to do, then that's a resource lost to Wales. When we don't have Barnett consequentials coming to us to help us to go on with a level of testing that we might have preferred, then we don't have the money to do everything we would have wished to do. So we've had to plan within the constraints that we unavoidably face. Simon Hart has said he wishes Wales hadn't made its own rules during the pandemic while prominent Conservative Lord Frost said it was nonsense that Wales had different rules to England. Given these repeated attacks how under threat do you think Wales's ability to make its own decisions independent of Westminster are in the future and are you concerned about this? Well I think it's just important for me to say that the level of responsibility that we had in Wales to make decisions was the level of responsibility that the Cabinet to which the Secretary of State of Wales belonged decided we should have at the outset. It was the UK government who made the original decisions about where responsibilities should lie and I think it's shocking that he should feel no responsibility at all for the decision of which he was a part. Now the broader history of the Johnson Government has been of, you know, muscular unionism, one in which the powers and the financial resources available to devolved governments have been under attack. I think that is bad for the United Kingdom. I've said this many times and I've said it directly to UK ministers. The Welsh Government believes that Wales is better off in the United Kingdom and that the United Kingdom is better off for having Wales in it. We need respectful relationships that recognise that the powers of the Senneth were confirmed in two referendums by people in Wales and that continual raids on the powers and the responsibilities of the Senneth is not the way in which to persuade people that the United Kingdom is a deal that they are keen to sign up to. There's a better future for the United Kingdom than that and I hope that the UK government will begin to realise that and to act accordingly. Diolch yn fawr. Thank you all very much indeed.