this is bbc news. the headlines. the number of people who have tested positive for coronavirus in the uk has risen to 206. milton keynes hospital is isolating people who came into contact with the man in his 80s who die from the virus on thursday. we currently have five patients who are isolated and have been tested and we are waiting for the results. we have asked nine staff to self—isolate. the results. we have asked nine staff to self-isolate. arjun 40 britons remain inquietude on—board cruise ship off the coast of california in which 21 people tested positive for coronavirus. there is a rush for me to get off the ship as i have stage four cancer and my tumours are actively growing. it

will not be easy to off—load the 2500 passengers on this ship. £360 million will be paid by insurance companies to clean up the damage done by storm dennis and storm ciara. in sport, we will have more on the ripple's victory with bournemouth which leaves a 25 points clear at the top of the table. good evening. the number of coronavirus cases in the uk has passed 200. it comes as the deputy chief medical officerfor passed 200. it comes as the deputy chief medical officer for england has warned that the chances for the uk missing an epidemic i slip now. 206 people have been infected in the uk and two people have died. both

we re uk and two people have died. both were elderly with underlying health issues. there are over 100,000 cases globally and over 3000 people have died. the vast majority of deaths is in china. the second person to die in the uk after being infected with coronavirus is a man in his 80s who was being treated in hospital in milton keynes. he had underlying health problems but there are still some uncertainties over how he got ill. we do not know how he caught coronavirus but we do know he was travelling. he did not meet the criteria for isolation when he arrived at the hospital. these are the current numbers. currently 21,460 people have been tested for coronavirus and a 206 have tested positive. in england, 184 cases have been confirmed and in scotland there

are 16 and four in northern ireland and two in wales. these are still quite small numbers compared to other countries in europe. they are up other countries in europe. they are up to 4000 in europe. but nevertheless it is progressing and the chances of the uk missing an epidemic are slim to nil. there are a few anecdotal reports of panic buying, certainly sales of hand sanitiser has gone up. retail experts say there is no need as stock will only run down if people start to unnecessarily buy in bulk. it now seems that coronavirus is likely to have an impact on the lives of all others and it is worth pointing out that for the vast majority of those who are unlucky enough to be infected will experience mild symptoms and will make a full recovery. how is all there is affecting the behaviour of shoppers here in manchester on a saturday afternoon? it hasn't

changed the way i live. we've got more hand gel and are washing our hands a bit more, aren't we?” touched the handles with tissues. maybe this is a sign of things to come? a day of sporting action disrupted. at twickenham, wines with clear outside the ground as england 01’ clear outside the ground as england or wales in the six nations. the scotla nd or wales in the six nations. the scotland woman passed back six nations rugby match with france was counted because a player had tested positive for coronavirus. governing bodies for sports and broadcasters are to meet governing officials on monday to discuss plans to stage events behind closed doors if the outbreak worsens. officials whined that these are still early days, it is just too early to be able to assess the full impact of coronavirus. the family of the patient who died in milton keynes,

having tested positive for coronavirus, have paid tribute to a wonderful husband, dad, granddad and great grandad. they said... join in know as doctor alison pitt out who is the dean of the faculty of intensive care medicine. she joins me from leeds. thank you for talking to us. how well prepared is the nhs with a view of intensive ca re the nhs with a view of intensive care when it comes to this virus? we are very concerned as to how we will be able to cope, especially if the number of patients who require critical care services reaches our worst predictions. we are planning for a worst—case scenario but the

problem is that we have had either little or no increase in critical ca re little or no increase in critical care services little or no increase in critical ca re services over little or no increase in critical care services over a number of yea rs. care services over a number of years. this means that even under normal circumstances we struggle to meet demand. we see routine operations cancelled on a regular basis. we are planning but everyone is looking at how to expand our critical care services to ensure that patients are mainly focus of what we do and i would like to reassure patients that if you do end up reassure patients that if you do end up needing to come into hospital or require critical care services you will receive the highest quality of care. can you give us any more details on the worst—case scenario preparations? we cannot predict how many more beds we can create because it will depend on individual organisations. we cannot expand within the critical care units somewhat individual organisations will be looking at its other areas

in the hospital that meet the safety requirements where patients could be clear for if the numbers outweigh the number of critical care beds we currently have. it's no doubt will. what happens if you get cases on an intensive care unit of people who are very intensive care unit of people who are very ill, how do people self—isolate on a unit like that? are very ill, how do people self-isolate on a unit like that? in the hospital, we do not talk about self isolation because if you have a positive patient within critical ca re positive patient within critical care they will be isolated, we will isolate them, in a side room. we may look at, if we have more than one patient who test positive, we will cohort them into one area so we will look after a number of patient in one area. that is how we would isolate the patient, away from patients who aren't positive. you

talked about it being a struggle now to run intensive care, given the lack of resources. what more would you like to see from government to help you through what we now anticipate to be an epidemic from what the deputy chief medical officer has said? there is very little that the government can do at the moment to help us do this epidemic. what is important for us to do as professionals is to make sure we put the patients first, but we look after our staff so that they cannot only look after patients during this incident but continue to look after patients when this is all over, but i hope what this does demonstrate is that we need a timely review of critical care resources was this is over. in the rest of the uk, this is already happening in

wales. thank you so much forjoining us. wales. thank you so much forjoining us. as we have seen wales. thank you so much forjoining us. as we have seen concerns wales. thank you so much forjoining us. as we have seen concerns about the virus have sparked panic buying of session products. professor helene joffe from university college london is here to talk about this. it is hard to know how widespread these are, empty shells of anecdotes of people buying up hand sanitiser. .. what is of people buying up hand sanitiser... what is the psychology behind this? are we just panicking? firstly, we are obviously in a time of great uncertainty and therefore anxiety. it does seem that going out and buying extra goods and nearly a lay that sense of panic and give us some sense of control the situation. i think it is probably useful to know that in these situations we

know that in these situations we know that in these situations we know that the psychology of behaviours is very much determined by people's social norms. if it becomes normative around us to go off and panic buy an stockpile, this is going to really escalate the situation. at the moment that does not seem to be a strong reason to be stockpiling and, interestingly, quite if few of supermarket chains, because of the fears of a no—deal brexit, they have equipped themselves quite well with extra supplies. as long as people know that the supermarkets actually have the goods that they need, bill —— there is no reason to panic. but panic does not so it will be to our area of reason but more are in motion. —— relate to. ithink area of reason but more are in motion. —— relate to. i think one consequence is going out and panic buying with another consequence is stigmatising people who look chinese and these are both consequences of

underlying anxiety. very interesting points. stigmatising people who look chinese, there has been incidents that we've seen on social media of people being attacked because of the way they look. this is panic actors into aggression. absolutely, and i think we all see the tip of the iceberg because obviously when actually something has been committed. a lot of people are being taunted and when they were out of their houses, coronavirus is being shouted at them because the look chinese. this is far more widespread than we think it is and there level issue to become something quite serious and we are to be very careful about it because as previous leaders have said it is actually... the consequence of the most of us will not be that major. yes, it might become a pandemic, epidemic,

in the uk, but the consequences are not that major and if we just hold back some of the anxiety then some of these stockpiling and aggression towards chinese people, if we can allay the panic we can maybe reduce both of these panic behaviours. allowing the panic and anxiety, done how? we have to recognise that there is anxiety out there and realise that in times of uncertainty like this it is justifiable to feel anxious. wejust this it is justifiable to feel anxious. we just don't know what is going to happen. partly recognising it and also giving people a little bit of more of a rational side, to ensure they know that the prevalence rate is not that high, even if you get it, of dying. the chance of dying is low. as soon as we hear the word epidemic or pandemic, lots of

movie tropes coming to mind. it is difficult to find a position for a position from a position from one pa rt position from a position from one part of myself which is not a panic position because we were waiting for this big one. there is always an idea waiting for the next big one and people think that this is the so—called big one. it sends people into a strong feeling of anxiety. there are people who are very complacent, so some people don't feel that anxiety. there are individual differences which is also submitted note. not everybody is actually feeling anxious and panicked and some people are feeling fairly complacent. we know that hand washing and someone is a good idea, so washing and someone is a good idea, so to be completely complacent you might not take any action all, which would also become —— problematic. thank you so much forjoining us.

nicola sturgeon has given her reaction to the five further cases of coronavirus in scotland. we now have 16 cases in scotland, an increase of five since we reported figures yesterday. we have been expected to see an increase in cases and a couple of days ago we said that that increase was likely to be rapid and perhaps accelerate induced to come. i want to stress that we are still very much in the containment phase of this outbreak. that means we are doing everything possible to avoid spreading from individual to individual, is one of case is identified we make sure that all the people who have been in close contact with them are identified, followed up, given advice, tested themselves were appropriate, because every day we managed to slow down the spread of this is it do more for preparing our nhs for greater demand. it is a out—of—date foreign scientists were working hard on vaccines. —— check

today for slightest. in the coming days we will see a shift into the delete phase, all about slowing down spread —— delete phase. it will ease pressure on national health services. the last thing i would stress, firstly most people that get this will have mild symptoms, like a cold or mild flu. it will be a small number of people who might develop complications from this, which is why it is important we prepare the nhs to be able to care properly for those who become ill. scotland was my first minister there. but as passages stop on—board a cruise ship off the coast of california are preparing themselves for a number of days or weeks isolation. 21 people over “— days or weeks isolation. 21 people over —— on board the grand

princess... are large and empty dock, this work grand princess should have been today. instead it released right off the coast of california, the lives of those on board california, the lives of those on boa rd left california, the lives of those on board left in limbo. when we get moved to this facility, we will all be tested. those that do not test positive may be able to leave. we are trusting in god, something good will come out of this. we do not know what it is and we are going to test negative and get home i get some treatment. testing case load onto the cruise ship revealed 21 people on board have coronavirus. —— testing kits. we are taking all measures necessary to see to the health of the americans and those involved on the grand princess and, just as importantly, to protect the health of the american public and prevent the spread of the disease

through communities in this country. confirmation of catching the virus that has killed thousands around the world came from news channels, not the ship is my captain. you may have heard this on the news by the media already, and we apologise but we we re already, and we apologise but we were not given advance notice of this announcement by the us federal government. it would have been our purpose to be the first to make this news available to you. these individuals will be notified of their test results as quickly as possible. this will impose that mum is on the cruise line up with her friend and they are both in their 70s. michelle once the government to act quickly and bring them home. when they were told there was 21 places of the coronavirus on the ship and most of them were staff, thatis ship and most of them were staff, that is when reality hit last night and she became very tearful on the phone. we ship is my mental crews

are working urgently to address medical needs and one person may need to be able to to hospital. —— medical crews. ultimately, thousands of people still have no idea where they're going out when they get there. —— or when they get there. the number of people affected have exceeded our 2000 people. over 3005 52 people have died from the disease. italy is the most affected european country with over —— almost 6000 cases. the number of deaths have risen to 233 and there are more deaths per day because of the virus that any other country in the world in italy. iran has been badly hit weather has been nearly 6000 cases. officials there see modesto has reached 145. —— stately death toll has raised 245. in china in a hotel

holding those infected has collapsed. the hotel on the south—west coast of china collapsed but it is not yet clear what is the cause. half the people trapped in the wreckage had been rescued. we'll find out how the story and many others are covered in tomorrow's front pages, which is that 20 to 30 and 2330 this evening. we all have in any economic adviserjoining us. time for a look at the headlines. the number of people to have tested positive for coronavirus in the uk has risen to do milton keynes hospital isolated people who came into co nta ct hospital isolated people who came into contact with the man who died of the virus on thursday. £360 million will be paid by insurance companies to clean up the damage caused by storm dennis and storm ciara. the new chancellor is due to

hold his first budget this week with all eyes on what measures he will announce to help people through the coronavirus outbreak. one separate expected move is the scrapping of the so—called tampon tax from january next year. 5% vat is added to sa nte products january next year. 5% vat is added to sante products for men under eu rules. removing the levy will make a pack of 20 tampon 7p cheaper with 5p coming off the cost of 12 sanitary towels. since 2015, women in the uk had paid £60 million of tax on sanitary products which is mostly passed on to charities. i will correspondent is here, i suppose this will be one of those eye—catching measures was the c it can do because we have left the eu? ina can do because we have left the eu? in a says they are right. this is

not possible what we were in the european union and it is impossible since we are in the transition period right now. and packed processes we are still a member and... this one not happen until the 1st of january next year. this will happen after the transition period where brexit will have been completed. we govan's ointment will be at the would have done it earlier but —— government have had this attack since 1973, this tax, and the money they have generated from this tax was given to it will charities. these charities cb welcomed the decision to get rid of the tax, the other long—running campaign stop about period poverty, but funding gap for their own charities due to the revenue stream coming from attacks. we have fully welded this is going to happen as it was attached to a finance bill. —— we

have known for a while this was going to happen. on the eve of international would impose my day, this is a savvy point to towers both. something else that the treasury has been released is help with cash when increasingly moving towards a cashless society. there are very towards a cashless society. there are very dependent on cash. there are very dependent on cash. there are2 are very dependent on cash. there are 2 million people in the uk that do not have a bank account which gives you a sense of how many people have a real important on cash. even some that have banking services rely on cash rather than carrying around debit cards and things. the chancellor is saying that he will try and do more in doubt because infrastructure is still there has been some concern from financial inclusion centre that because there has been a massive decline in cash uses, and it is forecast to carry on

acquiring, the indestructible —— infrastructure that is still about is at risk of collapsing. we are expecting the chancellor to talk about how that will be managed. for any government, yes, the modern technology can we did great changes of behaviour there is often a lag or a chunk of people concludes that they would rather stick with what we have always done. there has to be a mechanism to support them, particularly when we have seen that the switch to digital has caused causing physical branches and the cash machines with that. many thanks. after the wettest february on record, the association of british insurers see the total value appears to people hit by flooding will be around £360 million. the course cove rs will be around £360 million. the course covers the damage caused by storm dennis and storm ciara. the

long process of rebuilding begins. communities like these and i am great at helping businesses get back on theirfeet great at helping businesses get back on their feet after great at helping businesses get back on theirfeet after a great at helping businesses get back on their feet after a devastating winter floods. if it wasn't for the people in this community, even as far... we would not be in the situation right now. we started trading this morning. we have been busy all day and it is our local people, all people who came to supporters, and we are genuinely humbled by everything f b body has done. there is still a long and expensive journey ahead. the insurance industry is cutting the cost and more than 3000 households have made false claims of an average of £32,000 each. —— flood claims. the cost of doing up the aftermath of storm dennis and storm ciara is £360 million. that is more than triple the damage of floods that hit the midlands last november but still

relatively small compared to the cost of floods in 2015 which was £1.73 cost of floods in 2015 which was £1.3 billion. insurance companies expect storms like this to result in millions of pounds worth of damage and it is what they're used to and what plan for. it will cost is not going to be down for many months, as badly flooded properties will be given a chance to dry out and we can assess the full extent of the damage. several large insurers have recently said how winterflood claims are hitting their businesses. with climate change is expected to increase the number of floods in the uk, managing this risk is only going to become more expensive. three saudi princes, including the king was my brother and nephew, are reported to have been arrested. people think it is connected to the

country was like the fact of. no reason has been given but it is felt that it reason has been given but it is felt thatitis reason has been given but it is felt that it is a move to secure his power and remove the threat is authority. if confirmed, this would bea authority. if confirmed, this would be a significant move by saudi arabia's crowned prince. one of the senior princess reportedly detained as one of the last surviving sons of the country's founder, and he is widely respected amongst all the members of the ruling family. the other senior prince detained was nextin other senior prince detained was next in line to the throne before he was suddenly replaced two years ago. as has been no immediate official confirmation or denial of the story but a fierce year are often shrouded in secrecy. —— power is here. doctor said this man may not walk talk or

even smell. so she decided to learn sign language to beauty community with him. the pair have taught sign language on their facebook page, i have supporters all the place. what is this one? can we sign love? can you sign friend? ye! friend. three, two, one. jade and christian report sign language quest crashes and sing along to pop songs on facebook. well done! bike! good job! along to pop songs on facebook. well done! bike! goodjob! bike! my little brother christian was stillborn and did not take his first

breath for 24 minutes. his brain was starved of oxygen for that long which has led to him having a brain injury. he was told that we were told he would not be will to communicate so i decided to learn sign language and teaching and it has enabled him to be able to talk and signing over 250 words! talking and signing over 250 words! talking a lot! and you are proving everybody wrong, i due? a lot! and you are proving everybody wrong, idue? so a lot! and you are proving everybody wrong, i due? so many children and adults across the country use sign, adults across the country use sign, a use that man is population music, so a use that man is population music, so everybody should be able to talk it. what would that change mean to you and christian and your family? people not isolated. we can go to the local brownie group make friends. they can talk to anybody and it would mean everything, window? jay started an online petition, can't assign to be taught in primary schools across england. in less than months, it has more

done hundred thousand signatures. jade never expected her petition to go viral and get so much support, but now it has had more than 100,000 signatures. it is going to be moving home here and make its way here, to westminster, j's petition is going to be considered for a debate by mps. but how realistic is it? primary schools in south—east london already teach sign language as part of the curriculum. i do think it will be a very big challenge and the desert we have is not only deaf adults within our school but specialist and experience signers. you could do a smaller scale version and you could have access to an expert who visit schools and trains the staff. it does take you out if your confident enough in yourself to denting something on, but as long as you have right training, teachers

are very adaptable. the department for education says that schools had to say if you choose do and is currently developing a sign language gcse with the hope of introducing it as soon as gcse with the hope of introducing it as soon as possible. further north we had a lovely afternoon walk, but not the case in scotla nd afternoon walk, but not the case in scotland and northern ireland. as you can see, the front moves on through and takes with it what will have been a relatively mild day. we do amid pressure from anyone is doing course of sunday but it is not a new ice age by any means. the combination of wet and windy weather may keep you awake during the course notes as to weather front slumps towards is angry at the south—east. following on behind it will not be

called, we will start needing frost free in