English: You'll be pleased to know that I've discussed all these issues with the constituency Member Dawn Bowden and the concerns about how the community is supported to make the right choice, but then actually how you try to persuade people to be honest if they have acquired COVID and they recognise themselves they've been acting outside the rules. That's part of the key role that our test, trace, protect service has in both signposting people to go and get those isolation payments - lots of people aren't applying for them when they could do - to make sure they get all the support that is there, both financially, but also the wider support to make sure that people can successfully self-isolate, and to recognise that if a whole community supports the restrictions and acts in a way that's within them, we're much more likely to continue to suppress coronavirus rates and to find a sustainable way out of the current position. It's good news that rates have fallen in Merthyr in today's figures - a pretty significant fall; we need to see that continuing for the future. And, actually, we are working alongside the council and their officers, as well as local elected representatives, as well as the health board. So, the expansion and availability of community testing is part of that. It's about encouraging people to come forward and for them to have the confidence that, if they do test positive, they will be supported to undertake their isolation with financial and other means. There'll be more of this that we need to do, because, as we progress out of lockdown with more easings, we can expect there to be localised bubblings up of transmission. This is a good test for us about how successful we could be in supporting people to help all of us to finally see an end to the pandemic.
Welsh: Fe fyddwch yn falch o glywed fy mod wedi trafod yr holl faterion hyn gyda'r Aelod etholaeth Dawn Bowden a'r pryderon ynghylch sut y mae'r gymuned yn cael ei chefnogi i wneud y dewis cywir, a sut rydych yn ceisio perswadio pobl i fod yn onest os ydynt wedi dal COVID ac yn cydnabod eu hunain eu bod wedi bod wedi mynd yn groes i'r rheolau. Dyna ran o'r rôl allweddol sydd gan ein gwasanaeth profi, olrhain, diogelu wrth gyfeirio pobl i fynd i gael y taliadau ynysu - mae llawer o bobl nad ydynt yn cyflwyno cais amdanynt pan allent wneud hynny - i sicrhau eu bod yn cael yr holl gymorth sydd ar gael, yn ariannol, ond hefyd y cymorth ehangach i sicrhau bod pobl yn gallu hunanynysu'n llwyddiannus, ac i gydnabod os yw cymuned gyfan yn cefnogi'r cyfyngiadau ac yn gweithredu yn unol â hwy, ein bod yn llawer mwy tebygol o barhau i reoli cyfraddau coronafeirws a dod o hyd i ffordd gynaliadwy allan o'r sefyllfa bresennol. Mae'n newyddion da fod y cyfraddau wedi gostwng ym Merthyr Tudful yn y ffigurau heddiw - cwymp eithaf sylweddol; mae angen inni weld hynny'n parhau yn y dyfodol. Ac mewn gwirionedd, rydym yn gweithio ochr yn ochr â'r cyngor a'u swyddogion, yn ogystal â chynrychiolwyr etholedig lleol, a'r bwrdd iechyd. Felly, mae ehangu profion cymunedol a'u hargaeledd yn rhan o hynny. Mae'n ymwneud ag annog pobl i roi gwybod ac iddynt gael hyder, os byddant yn profi'n bositif, y cânt eu cefnogi i ynysu drwy ddulliau ariannol a dulliau eraill. Bydd angen inni wneud mwy o hyn, oherwydd wrth inni ddod allan o'r cyfyngiadau symud gyda mwy o lacio, gallwn ddisgwyl gweld cynnydd yn y trosglwyddiad ar lefel leol. Mae hwn yn brawf da i ni i weld pa mor llwyddiannus y gallem fod wrth gefnogi pobl er mwyn helpu pob un ohonom i weld diwedd ar y pandemig.