Llywydd, there's been a great deal of interest in the turnaround times of tests in the TTP system. In the community testing in Wrexham, over 95 per cent of samples were tested within 24 hours of being received, demonstrating that when such a turnaround is required, the system is geared to provide it. Indeed, last week, the highest ever number of tests in Wales were completed within 24 hours.

Now, of course, local flare-ups generate cases that contribute to the overall assessment of the position in Wales. Nevertheless, in the immediate run-up to last week's review, the R number in Wales was estimated to be between 0.6 and 0.9. In the model published on Friday last, the R number for Wales was calculated as being lower than for Scotland and for England, although the lower the circulation of the virus, the more volatile the R number becomes, which is why we rely on a wider basket of indicators, including the results of testing. In that regard, last week, 41,451 tests were carried out in Wales, of which 0.8 per cent were returned as positive cases. Tens of thousands of tests have been carried out on staff and residents in care homes, and, in the past week, the positivity rate for staff and residents there was 0.3 per cent.

The conclusion drawn by the chief medical officer from all of this data, as set out in his assessment published alongside our changes last week, is that the virus has been so effectively suppressed in Wales that further easements were justified on public health grounds. As a result, from Monday of this week indoor hospitality has resumed in pubs, cafés, restaurants and hotels in Wales. On Monday next, indoor gyms, spas, leisure centres and indoor children's play areas will reopen.

Llywydd, the Cabinet decided last week that we would devote much of the headroom available to us to provide new flexibilities for meetings between family and friends, but our discussions have recognised that this is the most risky of any easing of lockdown measures. We have therefore decided to delay any decision on this until later in the cycle. Our aim remains to restore to people some of the freedoms they have had to forgo in this part of their lives, but we will only do so if a public health case can be made for further indoor meetings between family and friends being justified. In the meantime, children under the age of 11 will no longer be subject to the social distancing rules and new flexibilities have been introduced for family and friends meeting in the outdoors.

Llywydd, in Friday's announcement I also set out plans to strengthen enforcement of coronavirus rules in Wales. While the considerable majority of individuals and businesses are working hard to keep us all safe, that is not true of all. Individuals who act as though the crisis were over run the risk of creating harm to others. That is simply not acceptable. It undermines the efforts that everyone else is making. Today I have met separately with the police and with local authorities in Wales to thank them for their vital work and to reaffirm our shared commitment to support those who are doing the right things to protect us all.

As far as businesses are concerned, unlike other parts of the United Kingdom, our regulations place a direct responsibility on the person in charge of premises to take all reasonable measures to minimise the risk of exposure to coronavirus. Guidance has been agreed with the different sectors to clarify what this means in practice, and many businesses have invested time, energy and money to make sure that they can operate in a coronavirus-secure fashion. To support them, we will provide new powers to local authorities to intervene quickly and decisively where this is not the case, and this will include requiring premises to close if necessary. Regulations will be laid on Friday of this week, 7 August, and will come into force on Monday 10 August.

Finally, Llywydd, to look ahead to the end of the cycle that has already begun, the Chief Medical Officer for England, Professor Chris Whitty, has warned there that easing the lockdown may already have reached its limits. Here in Wales, we have taken a different, step-by-step approach, but at the end of this cycle, on 21 August, we will be only two weeks away from the reopening of schools in September. We will need to prioritise any headroom we may have at that point to ensure that this vitally important moment for our children and young people can be accomplished safely and successfully, and there may be little scope to go beyond that in the next review. All of that, Llywydd, will of course depend on the latest evidence of transmission, later in August, and I will report again to Members on all of that in three weeks' time. Diolch yn fawr.