Thank you very much, Llywydd. It's always worth waiting for my contribution.

Clearly we're at a crucial time, as many have already said. Can I start at the outset here by congratulating some excellent speeches that I've heard in this debate so far? Of course, to be fair, Vaughan Gething gave us a wonderful opening, and Adam Price, Helen Mary Jones, Rhun, Delyth and Alun Davies all made wonderful contributions. I would like to mention some of the Conservative contributions, but I'm not sure if any of their ranks have yet contributed, apart from their leader.

But essentially, this is a critical time and we are facing a national crisis, and everyone needs to pull together—this is over and above party politics. And in looking at the significant increase in the number of COVID cases today—yes, we heard of some 600 COVID cases yesterday; today there are 1,148 new cases diagnosed in our country. With the increase in the number of people who have to be sent to our hospitals because of COVID, because of the scale of their illness, and the recent increase in the number of patients in ICU, we are at capacity already. That's why I support this firebreak lockdown over the next fortnight.

I don't know if I've mentioned in the past that I've been a GP and have taken some interest in these issues. But we need to use this lockdown to prepare and strengthen our systems. As we have heard, we need to improve test, trace and protect—we must get test results back within 24 hours. Our public system of testing and tracing is working wonderfully well and we need more of that. Using our health service, laboratories in our universities and hospitals and Public Health Wales, that public system is delivering miracles on a daily basis. We need to redirect additional resources in that direction in our health service and in our local authorities in order to tackle the trace element, which then influences isolation. This would all reduce our reliance on the UK system of lighthouse labs, Serco and so on and so forth, which have been underperforming recently, and that also don't accord with our public system in seeking results.

At the end of the day, self-isolation is crucial to the success of all of this and we're all responsible for this. But also, self-isolation is very difficult when you're living in poverty. It's impossible, I would say, as others have said. We must get that £500 available to those who qualify to receive it and that has already been announced.

Back to testing—we need to extend testing to all NHS staff and consider testing asymptomatic staff regularly, as the BMA has requested, and extend testing to others, such as essential drivers and security officers. This isn't just a matter for health and care. We also need to tackle the spread of coronavirus within our hospitals too. We need to do more to safeguard workplaces in increasing testing and tracing, not just in our hospitals, but also in care homes, universities, meat processing plants, our prisons, and so on and so forth. We must make our workplaces safe.

And we must ensure that the COVID work in our hospitals increases, yes, but not at the expense of the non-COVID work. We can't close everything down and just deal with emergencies as we did in the past.

So, to conclude, in the next lockdown fortnight we need to ensure the resilience of our PPE stock, masks and so on. I still receive reports about concerns about a shortage of PPE and now is the time to resolve this.

Staff in our health service—and I know very many of them; I'm related to some of them, in fact—have delivered a great deal. Our nurses and doctors have also suffered a great deal and they're ready for the fight, but they do expect support in that fight, that their workplaces are safe and that the PPE is in place for them, and that the NHS should be open to other non-coronavirus-related cases, as the Minister has already said.

After this lockdown, everyone needs to continue to socially distance, to wash their hands regularly, to wear face coverings and reduce their contacts with others. The fundamental advice will not change and in adhering to that advice we will come through all of this.