Questions Without Notice from the Party Leaders

Part of 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 1:59 pm on 21 March 2023.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 1:59, 21 March 2023

As far as the first question is concerned, we continue to review the views of the coroner and to take advice from those who provide the Welsh Government with advice on those matters. As to long COVID, I think the evidence is still emerging. I think it's too early to come to a determination of the sort that the trade unions have so far suggested. Not all the evidence that is emerging actually suggests that long COVID goes on being as serious an impact on somebody's health for as long as the original studies suggested. So, while the evidence continues to be in that emerging stage, I think it's very important to have the debate, I think the views of our trade union colleagues absolutely ought to be part of that, but we continue to follow the science and the evidence, and in relation to long COVID, that is still an emerging rather than a settled picture.