tv The Papers BBC News March 14, 2020 10:30pm-11:01pm GMT
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first the headlines: ten more patients have died in england after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths in the uk to 21. president trump is extending his ban on flights from europe to include the united kingdom and ireland. the president has made a decision to suspend all travel to the united kingdom and ireland, effective midnight monday night. eastern standard time. the spanish government confirms the country will be put under a partial 15—day nationwide lockdown in an attempt to control the virus. jet2 cancels all flights to spain, the balearic islands and the canary islands with immediate effect. some european union countries say they will close their borders to most,
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or all, foreigners. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster, penny smith, and benedicte paviot, uk correspondent at france 2a and president of the foreign press association. former president. after two years, somebody else has stepped in. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in and continue to be dominated by coronavirus. the telegraph reports that boris johnson will demand the uk's biggest businesses transform their assembly lines
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to produce ventilators in a bid to help the nhs. the express says government plans could see people over—70 asked to self—isolate for up to four months. the war on the virus has begun says the sunday mirror as ministers plan to use 8,000 private hospitals beds for infected patients. the people says the nhs will pay nearly £2.5 million a day to use the private beds. the mail on sunday has more details of the government's plans that could see the army called in to help guard hospitals and supermarkets. and, the observer leads with a warning from some of the uk's top scientists who say ministers have been too slow in their measures to delay the spread of coronavirus. those are the front pages. the only subject on those front pages. nothing else. penny, start us off?
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we are on this war footing and i understand. i know there are some people now who have actually stopped watching the news. if you follow anybody on twitter, some people are saying, i cannot bear to watch the news any more and i feel i know enough now, my anxiety is out of control and i need to back off a bit. when they complain about ministers not taking this seriously and not doing enough early enough, it ramps it up. when you look at the figures and this is just the tip of the iceberg and the start of it, but when you look at it globally, around the world, deaths, 5802, you kind of 90, the world, deaths, 5802, you kind of go, how big the population is globally and you look at those figures and you do think that actually, we will be needing to ramp this up. if we ramp it up too fast
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at the beginning there may be the temptation for people, for more people to say, i am not looking at the news. i have had enough and i am going to back off and i am going to live my life. and that of course is the worry, particularly when you are talking about in the sunday mirror, the over 70s, could be told to self—isolate for four months. and this is a group of people, many of them will be alone, not all 70—year—olds but a sizeable portion of them, who are alone and they will suffer hugely. we don't want them to die either, because they are mums, dads, grannies and grandads and everything else, but forfour dads, grannies and grandads and everything else, but for four months isolation? we must say, we don't have confirmation of that figure. many of the papers have got it
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there. if number ten does not say it is going to be that amount of time, it does add to the panic. yes it does and the anxiety, particularly. people who are anxious anyway. does and the anxiety, particularly. people who are anxious anywaylj think the point is not to panic, to keep calm but not quite carry on. lot of us, the great majority need to change our habits. yes, covid—19, as we now know it and the coronavirus are dominating, unsurprisingly, the sunday papers. where i think the headline is interesting in the sunday mirror, it is waron interesting in the sunday mirror, it is war on the virus. a lot of the language, cross is about the government, finally, some would say this country is on a war footing and preparing for. we know, it has been cove red a
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preparing for. we know, it has been covered a country —— covered in this country and abroad, it has been cove red country and abroad, it has been covered in a certain way. 8000 private beds will be used to relieve pressure on the nhs as it battles this crisis. that is unprecedented as well. there are other unprecedented things, as we will see. let's turn to the front of the sunday telegraph and where you were talking about private beds, there is a bit more information on the front of this paper? yes, in a sense, we have never known, mercifully, because of our age, world war ii. but when you listen to our parents and grandparents, it is true, it is akin, in essence, in a certain way. we we re akin, in essence, in a certain way. we were brought up to fear nuclear war. now, this is not nuclear war but this is germ warfare, virus warfare and we are going to need to change quite a few habits. what is
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interesting there, borisjohnson change quite a few habits. what is interesting there, boris johnson and his ministers very much on a war footing to help deliver equipment the nhs needs. when you look at the country list, you see the nhs and the united kingdom is actually quite far down on the list of countries with intensive care beds. it is the ventilators that are important. this collaboration with rolls— royce ventilators that are important. this collaboration with rolls—royce and private and public, which we saw with president trump at the white house, this collaboration. with president trump at the white house, this collaborationlj with president trump at the white house, this collaboration. i have been doing a lot of interviews, as we all have, should we be doing this, should we be doing that? but we are in uncharted territory. the sunday telegraph say they will release the computer model, suggesting why they are doing this, what they are doing, when they are doing it and why they are talking about it. talking about this herd
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immunity we have been talking about as well. you can see what they are planning on the government website but the scientific group met yesterday and they are reviewing the latest cases in the uk and updated modelling for monitoring and modelling for monitoring and modelling the outbreak as it advances, they said. it goes on to describe what the modelling meets moving forward. we talked about capacity and pressure on the nhs, figures, have you got confidence in the figures we are being told about in the uk? this is the problem because everybody is doing it differently. in france they are doing it differently, they were doing it differently, they were doing it differently in italy and everywhere else. they did it very differently, the whole thing, in china. who knows what will happen in
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america because of people don't health insurance. that has been waived now. has been changed in the la st 48 waived now. has been changed in the last 48 hours. that is the trouble, every time you turn round there is something you and you are right, do we trust the figures? very briefly, listening, as we did to the whole of the press conference of boris johnson, the second one on wednesday, it was interesting. i figure i found personally quite surprising, if not shocking, which does not surprise anybody who is in the nhs is, forthe does not surprise anybody who is in the nhs is, for the small amount, and they are still, as sad as they are, deaths and also confirmed cases, notjust people taking tests but the ones who are confirmed positive, on wednesday they were talking about in the uk, 10,000 people walking around who don't actually know they've got it. i think the figures you were quoting globally, we need to prepare for an
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explosion. what we are seeing in france with measures that have been announced this evening by the french prime minister, and i should say there are municipal elections tomorrow in france. that is not an easy decision to make, but they are going ahead. of course, people can vote by proxy or they can vote, of course, having asked to vote by post, by correspondence. but the prime minister said, ordinarily i would love to see people in the terraces and cafe is, but we are closing down cafe is, restaurants, cinemas as of midnight tonight. because too many people are still meeting up and they are asking people to behave responsibly. only go to work if you have to come only ta ke go to work if you have to come only take public transport if you are going to work and i think this is coming here soon. let's talk to the front page of the sunday mail. the army to guard hospitals and supermarkets. do you think it is reassuring for people to know that this is what is being considered?
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reassuring for people to know that this is what is being considered7m might mean there are toilet rolls available. she said, with a smile on herface. honestly, available. she said, with a smile on her face. honestly, what available. she said, with a smile on herface. honestly, what is going on with the toilet rolls. there are things now, in this war against the virus, there are moments of light where people are posting images where people are posting images where you are saying, please don't put your valuables in the window. and there are pictures of a couple of toilet rolls. and the army to guard hospitals and supermarkets, it is like all of these things, these are plans, if it gets to the state when we need them. like anything, you have to have these backstops, you have to have these backstops, you have to have these fail safes. i was searching for good news, because we could do with some. drum roll. a group of dutch scientists claim to have found an antibody that may help to detect and prevent the
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coronavirus from being able to infect people. how brilliant would that be? on the subject of that, let's turn to the front of the observer. it's an interesting look at the story. the vaccine will be slower to reach the uk after brexit. 0nce slower to reach the uk after brexit. once we get a vaccine. we used to talk about this the whole time. this is the only brexit angle, i am aware of. it's political editor of the observer says the uk faces having to wait longer and pay more to acquire coronavirus vaccine, because it will have left the eu by the time i vaccine is here. and that's also the one in from health experts and international legal experts. if people want to find out more they can look on the guardian website. i'm sure there will be people as we speak, tweeting us to tell us it's
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not true. i would like to put there isa not true. i would like to put there is a picture of an italian soprano singing from her window in milan as pa rt of singing from her window in milan as part of a concert and italians have been extraordinary. going to their windows and, god bless them, as the country is in lockdown, i love their spirit. and a click turning point, which is monumental on the front of the sunday mail, and in other papers, the fact the self isolation out is going to move to being entire households. it is something being planned, so if one person is infected, one of the plans from the government is to ask the whole household to self— isolate. government is to ask the whole household to self-isolate. not going to school or anything. there is something in virtually every paper, there are also sections on your rights, your pay, debts and those sorts of things, what you can do in various ways. penny, going back to the observer and brexit and the vaccine. this is a signpost for
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other medication, notjust the vaccine here, this is moving forward about getting medication into the uk. it's not like we didn't know this was coming. what we didn't expect was it to be thrown in so quickly. so i think we were expecting this. it is like we are italians singing from the balcony. we didn't expect it to happen so soon and quite so obviously, that this is what is happening. doesn't say we're not going to get it, but we are at the bottom of the queue with others and also perhaps more expensive. there is a lot of collaboration world wide trying to get this vaccine. that shared knowledge is fundamental. we are so interconnected as a planet. come back at 11.30. i wonder what the subject is going to be? let's see if
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we can surprise you. for now, a big thank you to penny anti benedicte and 11.30 is our second edition of the papers. you can head to the bbc news website. you can see the papers there and you can watch the programme back via the bbc iplayer. thank you for this addition and stay with us because we have all the top stories coming up at the top of the hour. see you shortly. now a little earlier on bbc news, we took some of your questions on travel and health on coronavirus in your questions answered.
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with me is the gp, doctor sarah jarvis who joins with me is the gp, doctor sarah jarvis whojoins me with me is the gp, doctor sarah jarvis who joins me from west london and nick trent, the telegraph's deputy head of travel who is joining us from norfolk. thank you very much for joining us from norfolk. thank you very much forjoining us today. first off, we will start off with a medical question, drjarvis. juliejones will start off with a medical question, drjarvis. julie jones has questions about the symptoms. she says, what is meant by a continuous cough? how new is new? yesterday, this week, before? it is a very good question and the issue is, it is difficult because different people will have different recommendations or different definitions of what it is. it is 37.8 degrees for the fever, but if it is over 37.8
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degrees, it is worthwhile and i know people have been panic buying a lot of hand gel, but i would like to see people buying a thermometer so they can check their temperature. a continuous cough is something that lasts more than half a day. some people have copd and asthma and they will have a cough some of the time. what we are talking about is a cough thatis what we are talking about is a cough that is different for you, new for you on more than you normally get an lasts for more than half a day. ok, thank you. nick, linda martin in devon says, we spent several thousand pounds on a walking holiday in india which has banned all foreign travellers from entering and the insurance company says it cannot help and the company we booked it with has told us to contact our insurers, where do we go from here? it depends which company linda has booked with. if she has booked with the company in india and put the walking arrangements there, i am afraid she is in quite a tricky
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situation because she has no leveraged as to getting her money back. if she has booked with a uk tour operator, then they absolutely have to refund and she should follow that up possibly even in small claims court. she should get her air fa re claims court. she should get her air fare back because all flights are cancelled, but it depends how this arrangement has been booked. few travel insurance policies might cover hue, but only if it has a section called travel disruption. it doesn't sound as though linda's travel insurance includes that. dr jarvis, i wash my hands says this man, for20 jarvis, i wash my hands says this man, for 20 seconds each time i come in from outside. how regularly do i need to wash my hands if i am inside ifiam need to wash my hands if i am inside if i am not going anywhere?m need to wash my hands if i am inside ifi am not going anywhere? it is need to wash my hands if i am inside if i am not going anywhere? it is a good question, but a lot of things in the house will have come in from the outside. it is notjust a question of how long you wash them for it is making sure you cover all areas. notjust for it is making sure you cover all areas. not just the for it is making sure you cover all
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areas. notjust the palms, between the fingers, the backs of the hands, both sides and then washing like that, in between your palms, putting your palms together and importantly, washing your thumbs because functionally your thumbs are half of your hand. you should wash your hands very thoroughly when you go to the toilet and wash your hands when they come into contact with anything before you touch your eyes, your nose or your mouth. 0ther before you touch your eyes, your nose or your mouth. other people, instance, if they have been into your house and touched a door handle, we know viruses, we think the virus can survive up to three days, depending on the temperature outside, on hard surfaces. that is metal, glass and plastic and so on and up to a day and kabul. we need to airon the and up to a day and kabul. we need to air on the side of caution and try to touch your hands lesson and wash your hands before you prepare food or you smoke and before you touch your eyes, face and your nose. a lot of us do that without thinking, so i would suggest regularly, even when you are at
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home. nick, lisa beale says i have asked several insurers if we can get asked several insurers if we can get a trip to cornwall covered in case we go into lockdown, but i'm not going very far. can i get a trip like this cover? i don't think you will find many insurers to ensure against this now, it would be a guaranteed way for them to lose money. if you don't already have insurance i don't think you will find anything that will cover you in the circumstances. drjarvis, can you please clarify the meaning of self isolation? some people think it is ok to go for a walk in the country, but i cannot see how this fits the requirements? it absolutely doesn't include going for a walk in the country because you never know who might pop up from behind a tree and you would have to get there in the first place. if you have a garden, you are allowed in the garden, you are allowed in the garden but only if your garden is big enough that at all times you can stay at least two metres away from
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your garden fence and two metres away from anybody else. if you are in shared accommodation, it is even tougher. we expect you to stay in the same room pretty much all the time and if you go into a shared area, such as a kitchen, do so when you know nobody else is going to be there and you must wash everything carefully. ideally you should have a separate bathroom. i know that isn't easy but if you go into the bathroom you must wash everything carefully afterwards and choose the show at the end of the evening when everybody else has left and then wash down everything with detergent. you must not share crockery, cutlery, clothes, bedding or towels with anybody else. ok, heading to cambridge and caroline asks, nick. i have booked ba flights to seattle next week but after the news from the states, i don't want to go. can i get the states, i don't want to go. can igeta the states, i don't want to go. can i get a refund? i think what you will find is that you will get a message from british airways quite
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soon saying the flights are cancelled and refunding your money. that is almost certainly going to happen, soi that is almost certainly going to happen, so i wouldn't worry about it. drjarvis, happen, so i wouldn't worry about it. dr jarvis, mrs happen, so i wouldn't worry about it. drjarvis, mrs byrne happen, so i wouldn't worry about it. dr jarvis, mrs byrne from happen, so i wouldn't worry about it. drjarvis, mrs byrne from market drayton says, can you get coronavirus from a parcel delivered from china? no. ok. nick, adrian atkin says, four of us had booked to go to spain in march, including a trip to madrid which is now in lockdown. my travel company has refunded my hotel but not the flight. refunded my hotel but not the flight. because they say the flight was non—refundable. my insurance won't pay out either, i paid a credit card, is there anything i can do? asi credit card, is there anything i can do? as ijust said, if your insurance doesn't cover travel disruption then you won't have any luck with that. the credit card will not help you. it does depend on how you booked your holiday. if you put both these arrangements, the flights and hotel with the same travel
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company, then they are obliged to refund the flight element as well, because it sounds like a package holiday. so it is covered specifically under regulations on packages and tour operators. sol would keep pushing for a refund of your flight. if you don't have any luck, then go directly to the airline. drjarvis, this man is on his way from belgium in a car coming back eurotunnel. he says, i don't have any symptoms, do i have to self—isolate when i get home to southampton? no, he doesn't. the government's advice changed on thursday when we moved into the delay phase. if you go online to the checking tool, it will tell you what to do. it was previously if you have beenin to do. it was previously if you have been in contact with someone with a
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known case of coronavirus or travel from a high—risk country, depending on your symptoms you had to self—isolate. from you have to self—isolate. from you have to self—isolate even if you didn't have any symptoms. the advice of change, because we have recognised that a the majority of cases are coming from within the uk. 20 cases had contracted the virus locally. the advice now is the only people who need to self—isolate are anybody and everybody who develops a fever or a new cough and they must self—isolate straightaway. again, you can find out from the website how you need to do that, including if you are away from home at the time. nick, mark deacon says i am planning to go to budapest on april the information is changing day by day, are there any precautions i can take so i don't lose out? i think the main precaution is probably not to book
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yet. it is five weeks away and that seems like a long time. we don't know whether there will be flights operating, we don't know if he will be allowed into hungary. i would wait three or four weeks and i don't think you are at any risk, if things are coming back to normal by then, i wonder if they will be, i don't think you will have any trouble finding a hotel room and i think you will get a pretty good deal on a flight. i will get a pretty good deal on a flight. i would will get a pretty good deal on a flight. iwould hold will get a pretty good deal on a flight. i would hold fire and wait at least three or four weeks and see how the land lies. we are going to finish on drjarvis with a question from jeremy clarkson, who is 60 from tonbridge in kent. he says i have been unwell that the temperature of 37.8, a debilitating headache which lasted 16 hours, complete lack of energy and minor chest pain, but no car. after three days i am feeling better but i am still unwell. could this be coronavirus? yes, it could be andi this be coronavirus? yes, it could be and i would absolutely recommend that you self—isolate. for people who have got symptoms and feel so
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u nwell who have got symptoms and feel so unwell that they can no longer do any of their normal activities, what we are recommending is you and you alone to ring 111. other people self—isolate for at least seven days. nobody is allowed to block any online appointments with their gp and go straight in. we are going to be seeing an increase in use of telephone and video triage, it might be worth getting in touch with your gp to see if they have got it. video consultation is available for every gp in the country and that will be coming on stream soon. so we will be seeing a lot more people not going to see their gp. at the end of seven days, you should know from when your symptoms started, you should know whether you are feeling well and if the fever has settled. if both of those things apply you can stop self isolating and go about your normal business. but if you continue to
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feel unwell you need to go back online and complete the tool again to get advice on what you should do next. doctor sarah jarvis and the telegraph's deputy head of travel, thank you forjoining us. the weather is going to remain changeable for the rest of the weekend. it is currently reigning across scotland and western parts of the uk and the chances are we will need our brollies during the course of sunday as well. but not for very long, hopefully. infact, of sunday as well. but not for very long, hopefully. in fact, there is plenty of sunshine in the forecast. this is a weather system bringing the unsettled weather across to us right now. you can see where the rain is across the north of the uk and in the south as well. it has been swinging in our way during the course of the evening. during the early hours of sunday morning the rain peps up across the south—west,
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in wales, part of the midlands and northern england. not cold across the majority of the country, we are talking sort of eight or 9 degrees per chili in scotland because the winds are blowing out of the north here and enough to cause wintry showers. by lunchtime, reining in the south—east and the south, but the south—east and the south, but the vast majority of the uk, by the stage on sunday enjoying a fine day. so for sure they will be sunshine around. you will be able to go out and enjoy it. two things happening on monday, high—pressure building in from the south—west, low pressure is close to iceland and we are between weather systems but it is the high pressure that will be more dominant across the majority of the uk. i think scenes like this early on monday morning outside of town. frosty, calm, sunny conditions but misty and a beautiful start on monday for most of us. not necessarily here in the extreme north—west of our neighbourhood. because a weather front will be
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bringing cloud, rain and strong winds and gale force winds in the western isles. certainly you can see across england and wales and it is looking fine. northern ireland is on the cusp of that weather. monday night and tuesday, this weather front will swing down a little bit further towards the south so that means perhaps a little bit more cloud around on tuesday. certainly the possibility of some rain in the north—west of the country here. now, one thing you will notice on tuesday is take a look at these temperatures. 15, 16, maybe even 17 celsius. a real hint of spring in the air early next week. towards the end of the week, the temperatures will go down, they will not hold that high and they will go down to around nine or 10 degrees but at least we will see high—pressure building across the uk, which means less wind and sunny weather on the way.
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this is bbc news. i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 11:00: ten more patients have died in england after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths in the uk to 21. more than 200 scientists have written to the government, urging it to introduce immediate and "more restrictive" measures to stop the spread of the virus. president trump is extending his ban on flights from europe to include the united kingdom and ireland. the the united kingdom and ireland. president has ma suspend the president has made a decision to suspend all travel to ireland and the united kingdom, effective midnight monday night eastern standard time. the spanish government confirms the country will be put under a partial 15—day nationwide
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