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‘to happen to the to happen to the sort what is likely to happen to the sort of facilities that people who have come in contact two on the way? i suppose nina is asking about the buses that have transported them all of the way up and presumably they will have to be isolated and so on and will they have to be cleaned? is and will they have to be cleaned? is a sort of thing likely to happen? yes, deep clean. by chance, i visited a modern poultry farm and slaughterhouse for chickens last week in north wales. you saw the sort of deep cleaning of the vehicles that bring the poultry from the farms to the slaughterhouse there. you're talking about bio—security, biological material here, and my understanding is that this virus is actually quite fragile. it doesn't live all that long. but proper cleaning, thorough
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cleaning, is a reassuring measure to take. and presumably, from our point of view as individuals, a few old—fashioned techniques won't be any harm if they make a bit of a comeback. spennymoortime any harm if they make a bit of a comeback. spennymoor time with soap and water after every visit to the bathroom, that sort of thing. —— spending more time. this is the crux of this. with these kind of infections, with flu—like illnesses, with influenza itself, with this virus, the basis of this has to be good personal hygiene, people not spreading it, if they think they might have it. confining themselves to the house, not turning up at the health centre or amd and breeding over other people, using public transport, and yes, i am afraid, personal hygiene in this country is not good. a third of people don't wash their hands when they have been to the lavatory. it is a question of
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actually getting people to wash their hands properly with soap and water and washing them as a surgeon would, getting in between the fingers, spending long enough with the soap and water to get thoroughly clea n the soap and water to get thoroughly clean and just general common—sense measures. that is not to be the basis of this. you cannot handle an illness of this kind, which may affect a lot of people, by everyone turning up at the health services. i think we also have to reassure people that really, the overwhelming majority of people who have come in contact with this virus won't suffer serious harm. steering as path between being responsive, concerned, taking measures and panic, and i'm afraid there is an element of panic going on, but steering that path is what is needed. that needs to be based on good intelligence, and good communications and having people
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speaking to the public who can be trusted. and we need more of that. thank you, stay with us. i want to put a question to you, why we re i want to put a question to you, why were the coach driver is not winning any protection? —— wearing any protection. one by the people who are meeting the people arriving back on the flight and checking whether they were showing any signs of infection. that is an understandable question. by the time people were allowed to get as far as the coach had been my expectation there will be checked and showing no symptoms and as you have pointed out the
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containment clothing, the barrier clothing the professionals wedding as they greeted those travellers would be extremely destructive and i would be extremely destructive and i would expect very dangerous for driving. if these people are not obviously infectious at this stage it would be a think because at this point to risk their lives by compromising the capacity of the drivers to drive them safely. we spoke to the bus company and they said part of the confusion may be one of the medics and the hazard suit had inadvertently got on the bus when at that point they were not needed because passengers had already been checked and there are not showing the symptoms and had they been able to have been kept where they were not allowed onto the bus to be transported. do you have any thoughts on sending them that
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farfrom any thoughts on sending them that far from oxfordshire to the wirral rather than isolating more quickly? my only thought as i am sure they have been placed in a situation where the facilities were available for the capacity of people arriving at the time, over 80 people, that as i think bigger than the capacity of most wards so it is where the availability was actually two houses people safely and with the appropriate support locally for containment to deal with the symptoms should they arise. larry asks should he be concerned about male coming from china? we are
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dealing with a number of unknowns with this particular form of coronavirus but what we can say about other coronaviruses is that they do not tend to survive all that long outside of the body of the patient and the fluids that transmit these diseases. other coronaviruses which we know of lose viability after around 24 hours and whilst i can appreciate why our listener is asking that question i do not anticipate that mail from china is going to be a problematic route for infection. professional aston, going to be a problematic route for infection. professionalaston, is in anything you want to add?|j infection. professionalaston, is in anything you want to add? i would agree with that. could you
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coronavirus pose any risk to her unborn baby? i have no reason to believe that this virus has any particular threat but it an unknown situation so again at is about being careful, effort and circulating in the community just make careful, effort and circulating in the communityjust make sure that you keep away from somebody who might be transmitting it. to my knowledge that is no evidence this isa knowledge that is no evidence this is a particular threat to the unborn. widely stay with you, from holly, you are talking about sars, how dangerous is coronavirus compared to other viruses like sars and even the ordinary flu? at this
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stage we do not know, we will be able to see that when it is all over. when we have had these kind of things before, sars and swine flu, we we re things before, sars and swine flu, we were concerned that we might have on our hands something like the spanish flu that for the first world war ini9i9 spanish flu that for the first world war in 1919 which killed millions of people who had not been exposed previously to a new virus. we know 110w previously to a new virus. we know now that in some ways that was partly because we had an international population that had suffered four or five years of war, malnutrition, susceptible answer wind and generally speaking with these viruses that have not been around before it is people who are vulnerable to end at the end become the casualties. the case fatality data from china, the number of people who die from this virus is
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running at about 2%, they are likely to be very elderly people who are vulnerable the end of their life a nyway vulnerable the end of their life anyway and to have gone on to get complications, perhaps pneumonia. the message of this is this is not something we should be panicking about but what we should be doing is being sensible and making sure we are looking after ourselves and in a general way people doing the things we encourage them to do all the time which is eat well and get a decent nights sleep and build up the resista nce nights sleep and build up the resistance generally to dealing with the sort of infections that come round every winter. remembering that between mid—december and the end of february every year and anchor under thatis february every year and anchor under that is about 30,000 deaths from viruses causing pneumonia and vulnerable and elderly people. how
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dangerous do you think this is?|j agree dangerous do you think this is?” agree with everything professional astonjust said, world health organization have declared the state a temporary state of international emergency around this disease because the people at risk as we just heard are those who already have a compromised immune system for some reason, and our country that would be the heinous groups and the elderly, people with diabetes and asthma and conditions which give them a compromised immune response. this is actually more complicated any developing world so the quarantine situation as a vital to be implemented particularly for travellers to lower and middle income countries where there tends to be conditions which exacerbate spread of any infection such as
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overcrowding and co—infections, hiv, to losses and other various tropical diseases and leave people more vulnerable. thank you. sport, and now for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. not long until the first game of the six nations kicks off in cardiff. wales host italy later. let's go straight to the principality in cardiff, austin halewood is pitchside for us. austin, wales are the holders but with a new head coach it may not a straightforward campaign for them? welcome to cardiff when the start of
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the 2020 six nations as a couple of hours away and very much a feeling ofa hours away and very much a feeling of a changing of the guard here at the principality stadium, warren gatlin was the wales head coach for 12 successful yea rs, gatlin was the wales head coach for 12 successful years, he has left and a new man has come in, another new zealander with large shoes to fill, wayne pivac has never been an international coach before. he has only tinkered with the team, hoping for a result against italy whom they have only watched two twice in the six nations. ireland have a new coach too, they host scotland later who've had some disciplinary issues? that is the other big game in
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dublin, ireland very much a different feel about irish rugby from wales, the high day really poor 2019, a disappointing six nations, lefty one cup than they had hoped for so former coachjoe lefty one cup than they had hoped for so former coach joe schmidt left and that a bit of a cloud and andy farrell ta kes and that a bit of a cloud and andy farrell takes over, he has never been a coach before so it be interesting to see how he gets on. they take on scotland to have some selection issues of their own, their player, most creative, finra russell has not been picked for the squad because of disciplinary issues in the build—up to the game this week so it will be interesting to see how they get on without him, well they still have the same flair and sparky created particularly in a very tough opening first fixture away to ireland.
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(britain's jamie murray could be on his way to an eighth grand slam double's title after taking the first set in the mixed doubles final of the australian open. murray, along with his partner bethanie mattek—sands are playing nikola mektic and barbora krechikova. meanwhile, there is a new australian open champion, the american sofia kenin won on her debut grand slam final, beating garbine muguruza. the first set went to the spaniard 6—4. but then kenin fought back to take the second 6—2 and that seemed to give her confidence. she then went on to win the third set 6—2 as well after a double fault from muguruza. 21 year old kenin is the youngest to win the australian open in 12 years. england's women beat world t20 champions australia hockey and great britain men picked up a point in their opening pro league match against australia. the game was tied at four—all in sydney, forcing the match into a shootout. and it was the home side who went on to take victory to earn them a bonus point. britain's women were also taking on australia, but lost 2—1 with the home side clinching the winner
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with only 12 seconds to go. both the men's and women's sides face australia again tomorrow morning. just time to update you on the early premier league match between leicester and chelsea. that's all the sport for now. coming up next it's click. over the last decade or so, fashion has gotten faster. cutting—edge design techniques coupled with a huge reduction in the cost of production and the growing success of online clothing sites means new designs
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and trends can be turned into low—cost clothing much quicker than just once a season. as a result, more than1 million tons of clothes are now bought every year in the uk. the environment and the waste produced by fast fashion is just one issue facing the industry. another is how these clothes are made in the first place. bangladesh is a case in point. it employs millions of people in this industry but is faced with regular calls to improve its working conditions. some now think that adding robots to the factories may help but at what cost? this is a very live example of the automation versus jobs argument that we hear so much about. jen has been to bangladesh and has been given very rare access to the industry. bangladesh is second only to china in producing clothing for the world. its ready—made garment industry
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is critical to the economic success of the country, providing jobs for over 4 million people — the majority of whom are women. this man is on a mission to transform the future of fashion here, starting with his denim factory in the southern port city of chittagong. the world focused its attention on bangladesh's garment industry after the rana plaza disaster in 2013 when nearly 12,000 people in 2013 when nearly 1,100 people were killed when the building collapsed. the eight story complex houses five garment factories supplying clothing to international brands. did you go to the plaza when it happened?
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mostafiz‘s focus is not only on the social well—being on his workers but on bringing environmentally sustainable technology and innovation to the factory, including a design studio where an in—house team creates new styles ofjeans to show international buyers.
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the process of distressing denim is laborious, workers here are sanding jeans by hand to create holes and whiskers on the fabric. a high—tech alternative to hand sanding is now being used in the factory that requires far fewer workers. this laser machine cost 200,000 euros and can be operated by one person in a clean and
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air—conditioned room with no dust. it uses pre—programmed designed to automate the work the humans are doing next door, from burning holes intojeans to creating the whisker patterns down the legs. a machine also won't take to the street and protest against low wages or poor
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working conditions. last year, bangladesh saw civil unrest from garment workers at other factories, demanding better treatment from their employers. and introducing more automation could have the unintended consequence of moving jobs away from garment manufacturing hubs. this is already happening in the united states. back in dhaka, he recognises the need to engage international retailers in these important discussions. wejoined him at two of his conferences, the denim expo and the sustainable apparel forum. technology is a big theme here and companies like this one have advanced laser machines for garment finishing. this italian company provides high—tech laundry. it has to be a technological industry and not any more a human—driven industry.
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something this will open up new possibilities for bangladesh's workers. they can have a betterjob, for example, they can become an engineer and learn how to use the machine. they can become a designer. do you think it is feasible for 4 million low skilled workers? i don't think automation is going to benefit any worker in any industry. automation is basically a replacement of the worker by a machine which the owners of factories would really love and it stabilises costs. it stabilises working conditions.
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estimates vary as to how manyjobs automation will displace in the industry but some recent reports say up to 80% of simple garment work could be at risk in asia in the next five years. the creation of new machines has brought a once distance prospect of automating workflow in garment factories sharply into focus. the idea of renting cloths is nothing new, neither is doing it online. companies like this one have been in the us for over a decade and has met success in the uk. but the desire for an evolving wardrobe hasn't gone away. so i've been taking a look at a few of the uk start—ups that are using an extra bit of technology
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to bring this idea up a level. this app brings peer—to—peer lending to mobile phones, adding a spot of al to the mix. we have got two machine learning tools that we've built. the first one is to show listers or lenders when they are listing items. they tag retail photos which are an infringement of copyright laws. the second thing we have built is helping people to tailor their looks. if you've rented a black dress, we will match a pair of green shoes and a green bag with it. over 8,000 users or rotators as they are known, like kat here, already benefiting from adding an extra spot of cash off their belly or finding some wardrobe variability themselves. off their barley worn orfinding some wardrobe variability themselves. i got into the whole sustainability and renting thing and buying secondhand in the middle of last year and then i found there were some rental platforms and i was like, that is amazing.
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i have a lot of stuff and all of my friends want to borrow things for weddings and events and i was like, may as well make some money for it. what percentage of the price of the dress are you renting it for? there is a suggestion in the app but i usually... i think if the dress is like $330, it's between 12 and £15 a day and then you offer a discount for a week or a month. if they're going away for ages, you can offer them a 50 or 70% discount. i've done it a few times and you make back money. one app hopes to create an entire ecosystem around this idea. save your wardrobe allows you to create a digital version of your entire wardrobe. to do this, some of this will be a matter of it scanning your e—mail for receipts for clothing. other items you may need to photograph to input. you will also then make a note of how regularly you form them. of how regularly you worn them.
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our competitive edge is that we create an ecosystem of services as a way to upcycle and extend the life of garments. logging your whole wardrobe does sound quite time—consuming though. we managed to squeeze the time to a few seconds when it comes to e—mail scanning. so building a wardrobe through e—mails should take a matter of seconds and the computer vision is strong enough to recognise the category, the colour, the brand. you need to add the size yourself though. so if the idea of tracking our wardrobes like we track out steps takes off, maybe passing fashions could become a thing of the past. that was lara. talking of which, next week we will be back in la, with an entire programme dedicated to technology and the movie industry. in the meantime, don't forget that we live on social media,
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on youtube, instagram, facebook and twitter at bbc click. thank for watching and we will see you back in la. hello, set to turn windier across the uk as we go i think many of you'll find it turned increasingly windy as we go through the rest of today with gales in places. rain, which has started the day in scotland and northern ireland erratically pushed its way into much of northern england's north and west, where it does allow a bit more sunshine to develop in scotland, northern ireland later and a fair bit of sunshine to come through the midlands, east anglia and the south after the morning cloud and just one or two showers. but even here, the winds will be picking up, 50mph gusts not out the question. and the winds go more northerly
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across parts of scotland later on, which will introduce a drop in temperature through the afternoon compared to how we start the day. staying on the mild side with temperatures in double figures, particular for england and wales. that's the case in cardiff for the opener in the six nations between wales and italy. we will see a fair bit of sunshine after the morning cloud but quite a blustery day and it will be blustery too in dublin for ireland against scotland. that wind could bring a few showers close to the city, but overall, mostly dry. now, as you go into this evening, wales, northern england, the midlands, prone to some showers in particular, one or two maybe towards east anglia as well, but they will fade away for a time. clearer skies, temperatures taking a of a plummet across the northern half the country with a touch of frost. but temperatures rising further south as we see cloud, wind and rain spread its way northward through england, wales and northern ireland and eventually into southwest scotland as we start sunday morning. north of scotland to go with the frost, dry start here and some will stay dry all day long. but rain will spread northwards across scotland, turning for a time to sleet and snow over the hills. the persistent rain clears northern ireland, north and eastern england at first light and then we'll see some showers pack in, some of those heavy and thundery.
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a bit of sunshine in between, more in the way of dry weather further south with perhaps just some wet weather spreading through the channel islands. but it's in the south with sunshine we could see highs of 14 compared to just five or six in the drier slot in northern scotland. and whilst you may not want to be thinking about the return to work on monday quite yet, i'll draw your attention to this area of low pressure, sunday night into monday between us and ireland. there will be some rain wrapped around that so top and tail of the country will see outbreaks of rain through the day, something a little bit drier with just a few showers through central areas and a bit of sunshine. but as that low pressure system pushes its way in through the afternoon into the evening rush hour, we could see damaging gusts of wind in the west of scotland, potentially northern ireland, touching 70 or 80 mph. and it will pick up the wind elsewhere across the northern half of the uk. bye for now.
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good afternoon. nhs officials are trying to trace people who had close contact with two chinese nationals diagnosed with the coronavirus. the two are being treated at a specialist unit in newcastle. one is a student at york university. elsewhere, 83 british people and 27 others evacuated from the chinese

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