National Assembly for Wales

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Notes that press reports state that Dr Angela Raffle, a senior lecturer in population sciences at Bristol University, said that COVID-19 mass testing was "incredibly resource intensive" and continuing it in Wales could be "the most massive-scale of waste of resources".

BBC News - Covid-19 in Wales: Mass testing a 'waste of resources' - 13 December 2020

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a) press reports in March 2020 stating that the Prime Minister, in respect of the spread of COVID-19 in the UK, said that “we can turn the tide within the next 12 weeks and I’m absolutely confident that we can send coronavirus packing in this country"; and

b) that the Welsh Government has not been sufficiently attentive to these remarks and, instead, have opted to use current circumstances to promote long-term policies that:

i) are disproportionate to any objective health risk; and

ii) do not prevent and repair the colossal damage to civil liberties and the economy caused by governmental responses to COVID-19.

Reuters - UK can turn the tide against virus in next 12 weeks: PM Johnson - 19 March 2020

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Believes that the new levels of restrictions are disproportionate and damaging to businesses and livelihoods across Wales.

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Regrets that the Welsh Government has consistently taken a different COVID-19 strategy from the UK Government.

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Believes that the most successful COVID-19 strategy to have in Wales is a united, UK response, led by the UK Government.

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Welcomes the announcement of new alert levels in Wales that allow for the regional and local application of restrictions in response to the scientific evidence and differences in coronavirus infection rates in different parts of the country.

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Calls for restrictions and isolation support to reflect as much as possible the different sustained levels of infection in different regions of Wales.

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Believes that Wales should model the benefits of, and consider implementing, a Slovak-style mass testing programme.

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Calls on the Welsh Government to develop detailed plans for the safe reopening of key sectors such as hospitality, culture and sport venues based on direct engagement between sector representatives and the Welsh Government’s scientific advisors.