the early years of her reign. here, the king and queen consort attended a service of prayer and reflection for her life. he speaks welsh the first minister, mark dra keford read from the first book of kings, which includes the verse, and now, 0, my lord, you have made your servant king. welsh was confirmed as an official language here only in 2011. it is strengthening in this age of devolved government. the bilingualism of this service another celebration of the distinctiveness of wales within the uk. as wales gains an even stronger sense of nationhood, and our place within the world, we should still remember that
where omicron is getting worse in scotland, at the moment the scottish government is starting to think about how to deal with the situation after omicron is at its worst, probably in the next few weeks, coming towards the end of january or into february, so very much looking forward to the coming months, as opposed to what is going to be happening in the next few weeks. james, thank you very much. we have had some more decisions coming out of cardiff. we are hearing that wales is making other changes to try to ease the pressure on pcr tests. we are hearing from mark dra keford, drakeford, the dra keford, the first drakeford, the first minister there, that the change will need people are unvaccinated and have cases of positive cases and a self isolating for ten days should now take a lateral flow test on days two and eight instead they pcr test. that is an immediate change. and then
of a new variant already here in wales, and the number of new cases is accelerating every day, where the doubling time means that those cases will be in thousands within a short number of days and where the impact on people falling ill and becoming so ill that some of them will need to be in hospital is very significant indeed. i think that the actions we have taken are absolutely proportionate to the risks that we know are there and which we will be facing here in wales. speaking welsh. mark drakeford announcing mark dra keford announcing restrictions mark drakeford announcing restrictions and other measures to come into effect from 6am on boxing day in wales, in response to the omicron variant of covid. we will