Translate the text from Welsh to English.



 
Hoffwn roi gwybod i’r Aelodau am ein cynlluniau i ehangu gweithgarwch o dan y llinyn Profi i Ddarganfod yn ein Strategaeth Brofi wrth inni ddechrau llacio’r cyfyngiadau.


Rydym yn gwybod nad oes gan hyd at un o bob tri sy’n cael prawf positif am y coronafeirws unrhyw symptomau o gwbl ac y gallant, felly, ei ledaenu yn ddiarwybod iddynt. Mae ein Strategaeth Brofi, drwy’r dull Profi i Ddarganfod, yn cydnabod bod nodi ac ynysu achosion COVID\-19 yn y gymuned yn gyflym yn lleihau trosglwyddo haint, yn cefnogi gwaith olrhain cysylltiadau, yn diogelu unigolion agored i niwed ac yn helpu i arafu neu atal lledaeniad y clefyd.


Canfu gwerthusiad o’r cynllun peilot profi asymptomatig ym Merthyr Tudful a Chwm Cynon Isaf ym mis Tachwedd a mis Rhagfyr, a gyhoeddwyd ar 22 Mawrth, fod yr ymyrraeth yn gosteffeithiol iawn a’i bod wedi cael effaith gadarnhaol, uniongyrchol ar lefel COVID\-19 a oedd ar led yn y cymunedau hynny. Mae’r canfyddiadau’n nodi ei bod yn debygol bod profion asymptomatig wedi cyfrannu at y gostyngiad a fu mewn cyfraddau achosion COVID\-19, ar ôl gweithredu’r cynllun peilot a chyflwyno’r cyfyngiadau symud cenedlaethol ar 20 Rhagfyr 2020\. Amcangyfrifir y cafodd 353 o achosion o COVID\-19 eu hatal, sy’n golygu 24 o dderbyniadau i’r ysbyty, 5 derbyniad i Unedau Gofal Dwys a 14 o farwolaethau a fyddai wedi digwydd fel arall.


Mae profion cymunedol wedi bod ar waith mewn rhannau o Ben\-y\-bont ar Ogwr, Merthyr Tudful a Rhondda Cynon Taf ers dechrau mis Mawrth. Gan ddysgu o’r cynllun peilot, mae Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Cwm Taf Morgannwg a’i bartneriaid yng Nghynghorau Bwrdeistref Sirol Pen\-y\-bont ar Ogwr, Merthyr Tudful a Rhondda Cynon Taf wedi targedu cymunedau sydd â niferoedd ystyfnig o uchel o COVID\-19\. Mae partneriaid hefyd yn cynnig profion rheolaidd i bobl na allant weithio gartref, yn enwedig y rhai mewn gwasanaethau cysylltiad agos megis gyrwyr tacsis, trinwyr gwallt a gweithwyr manwerthu.


Gan adeiladu ar y gwersi a ddysgwyd ac i gefnogi ein cynlluniau i ailagor yr economi, rwy’n cyhoeddi heddiw amserlen estynedig ar gyfer y rhaglen profi cymunedol hyd ddiwedd mis Medi. Bydd hyn yn helpu i reoli brigiadau o achosion ac yn targedu ardaloedd lle ceir cynnydd cyflym mewn achosion ac sy’n parhau i fod â chyfraddau heintio ystyfnig o uchel. Byddwn yn parhau i weithio gyda’n partneriaid lleol a rhanbarthol i ddatblygu cynlluniau ar gyfer safleoedd profi asymptomatig a hybiau casglu. Yn ogystal ag ehangu profi cymunedol mewn safleoedd profi, byddwn yn defnyddio sianeli dosbarthu newydd i alluogi pobl na allant gael profion yn y gweithle na gweithio gartref i gael profion i’w cymryd eu hunain gartref.


Ein nod yw gwneud profion asymptomatig rheolaidd mor gyfleus a hygyrch â phosibl i bobl na allant weithio gartref a’u haelwydydd drwy ddatblygu nifer o sianeli gwahanol gan gynnwys modelau casglu a danfon. Bydd y rhain yn dechrau cael eu cyflwyno yn yr wythnosau nesaf.


Bydd ehangu Profi i Ddarganfod yn rhoi mwy o hyblygrwydd i bartneriaid ledled Cymru benderfynu pryd a ble i gyflwyno profion asymptomatig i ymateb i unrhyw gynnydd a welir mewn achosion, gan helpu i ddiogelu pobl wrth inni lacio’r cyfyngiadau’n raddol.







Translation:


 
I want to inform Members of our plans to expand activity under the Test to Find strand of our Testing Strategy as we start to ease out of lockdown.


We know that up to a third of individuals who test positive for coronavirus have no symptoms at all and can therefore spread it unknowingly. Our Testing Strategy recognises under its Test to Find approach that identifying and isolating COVID\-19 cases in the community quickly reduces the transmission of infection, supports contact tracing, protects vulnerable individuals and helps to slow or stop the spread of the disease.


The evaluation of the asymptomatic testing pilot in Merthyr and Lower Cynon in November and December, published 22 March, found the intervention was very cost effective and had an immediate, positive impact on the level of COVID\-19 circulating in those communities. The findings note asymptomatic testing likely contributed to the subsequent decline in COVID\-19 case rates which occurred, following the pilot and the introduction of the national lockdown on 20th December 2020\. An estimated 353 cases of COVID\-19, 24 hospitalisations, 5 Intensive Care Unit admissions and 14 deaths, that would have otherwise occurred, were prevented.


Community testing has been underway in parts of Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and RCT since the beginning of March. Learning from the pilot, Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board and its partners in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and RCT County Borough Councils have targeted communities with stubbornly high prevalence of COVID\-19\. Partners are also offering regular tests to people who are unable to work from home, particularly those involved in close contact services such as taxi drivers, hairdressers and retail workers.


I am today announcing, building on lessons learned and to support our plans to re\-open the economy, an extended timeline for the community testing programme until the end of September. This will support outbreak management and target areas that see a rapid increase in cases and continue to have stubbornly high rates of infections. We will continue to work with our local and regional partners to develop plans for community asymptomatic testing sites and collect hubs. As well as extending community testing at test sites, we will use new distribution channels to enable people who are not able to access workplace testing and cannot work from home to have access to self\-tests for home use.


We aim to make regular asymptomatic testing as convenient and accessible as possible for people who cannot work from home and their households by developing a number of different channels including collect and delivery models. These will come available during the next few weeks.


This expansion of Test to Find will allow partners across Wales greater flexibility to decide when and where to deploy asymptomatic testing to respond to any increases in incidence that may occur and to help keep people safe as we gradually ease restrictions.