Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. Can I thank the Minister for his statement this afternoon? Minister, whilst we must all acknowledge that you have, to a certain extent, to follow what the UK Government, and indeed much of the world, is doing with regard to COVID-19, it is incumbent upon us as politicians to question these draconian actions, for draconian they are, because they are having far-reaching consequences for almost every person living in Wales. We have to ask whether these actions are justified by the figures.

At the present time, COVID-19 accounts for an average of 11 of the 1,687 deaths that occur in Britain every day. By comparison, the week ending 4 September, 124 people died each day from endemic flu and pneumonia. Heart disease, Britain's biggest killer, accounted for 460 deaths every day last year, while cancer kills an average of 450 people per day. We have all been made aware that people are not seeking treatments for these killers because they are very much afraid of catching the disease in our hospitals. And given the increasing evidence that the statistics on deaths directly as a result of coronavirus are hugely flawed, can the Government really justify locking down the whole of the population because of the behaviour of a very small number of people, as the First Minister himself expressed earlier in this Plenary session? Surely, Minister, the correct action is to penalise those who are breaking the regulations, not seek to incarcerate those of us who are obeying the law.

I also wanted to point out some of the anomalies inherent in the present course of action, where we are seeing travelling funfairs allowed, but properly organised equestrian events being prevented, and where people cannot travel from closed-down areas, but where large numbers are allowed to for so-called work processes. Surely such lockdown strategies, which leak so comprehensively, only serve to cause consternation to those of us who do obey the regulations, whilst having limited effectiveness on containing the virus.