Apologies, Deputy Presiding Officer. I'm just getting my statement up. Here we are. I hadn't remembered all of it just yet.

Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. Today we have published the third of our reports summarising progress against our national COVID-19 vaccination strategy. These reports are published every Tuesday, in addition to the surveillance data that is published by Public Health Wales both daily and weekly, and the operational data that is being published by Welsh Government statisticians.

According to the figures published at midday today, the NHS Wales-led vaccination programme has now vaccinated more than 628,000 people across Wales with their first dose. That's essentially one in five of the population, and over 80 per cent of those included within the first four priority groups. Over the last week, our teams vaccinated someone in Wales every four seconds. We expected a further step up of activity over the last week. I'm pleased to say that happened and is borne out in the published data.

Friday, 5 February marked the sixtieth day of the vaccination programme, and was also the day when the number of people to have received their first dose of the vaccine in Wales reached the 0.5 million mark. NHS Wales also broke the daily number of vaccinations recorded on two consecutive days on Friday and Saturday. More than 30,000 vaccines were administered on both days, with almost 34,000 reported on Saturday alone. That means for Friday and Saturday, we vaccinated 1 per cent of the Welsh population on each day.

The vaccination programme continues to go from strength to strength. By the end of last week, we had vaccinated a larger proportion of the total population than any other part of the UK. That is still the case today with the figures just released. Last week, not only were we vaccinating more people each day as a percentage of our population than any other UK nation, but at that point we ranked third in the world, behind only the United Arab Emirates and Israel. That is a fantastic achievement and testament to the efforts of everyone involved—our NHS, local government, the military and all of the volunteers.

We delivered more doses of vaccine to health boards than on any other week, and vaccines were being administered in 493 locations across Wales. We are progressing well through the priority cohorts, and are on track to deliver against that first major milestone in line with our national plan. We expect to have offered the vaccine to all those in cohorts 1 to 4 by the end of this week.

Until now, we had been asking people to wait until contacted by the NHS. However, as the pace of our vaccination programme increases, our health boards are starting to ask people over the age of 70 to get in touch if they haven’t been invited for their vaccination, but that is only people over the age of 70. We'll communicate the arrangements for this over the next week through our health boards. Sorry, we'll communicate this through our health boards over the coming days. This is a key part of us ensuring that no-one will be left behind.

This week, we have also seen more good news about the vaccinations. The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the independent regulator, released research demonstrating that the current vaccines are extremely safe, with only mild and expected side effects. Also, a study on the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine suggests that it could lead to a substantial fall in the spread, the transmission of the virus, and that protection remained at 76 per cent during the first three months after the first dose, and rose to 82 per cent after the second dose.

I am immensely proud of our NHS colleagues across Wales, and grateful for their and their partners' unrelenting hard work in sustaining the pace of our vaccination programme. This really is a marathon, but we have made a fantastic start. I hope that Members across the Chamber share that sense of pride in our national achievements. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer.