Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 3:18 pm on 3 March 2020.
Thank you for the series of comments and questions. I'll try to make sure that I respond to each of them and I'll try to be brief in doing so, Presiding Officer.
There's a point about all of us promoting and using trusted sources of information—so, the information given by the chief medical officer, the information that the Welsh Government website promotes, and Public Health Wales. They are trusted sources of information that we should all be looking to promote to help with the simple messages, both about continuing to repeat the 'catch it, bin it, kill it' message, and I think we will get to the point where there will be a widespread understanding of it, because I expect to see virtually every spokesperson repeat that at various points in their public appearances, and you can also expect there to be regular media messages from a variety of people. But in particular, the four chief medical officers across the UK, and health Ministers, of course, will be leading on that extra effort. If coronavirus becomes a more significant concern, you can expect to hear from me not just in this place, but publicly as well. So the public messaging part I think would actually be quite difficult at this point in time—to have a separate public health campaign given the significant coverage that is taking place every day on an update on the condition. Thus far, I certainly think our broadcast media have been pretty responsible about their approach, and in promoting those essential and basic public health messages. Of course, the guidance for schools that we've issued, which, again, is available on the Welsh Government website, reiterates that advice as to what people should do, not necessarily opening or closing schools—the messaging again being to keep them open—but actually in good basic hygiene; we want schools to follow and reiterate with their own populations as well.