people have survived. the british government has confirmed that from june the 8th, people arriving in the uk will have to self—isolate for m days because of coronavirus. anyone breaching the rules will be fined 1,200 dollars. there's been international criticism over china's plan to introduce a new security law in hong kong. the european union, britain, australia and canada said it would undermine the territory's autonomy. the us secretary of state said the law would be disastrous. india's prime minister, narendra modi, has announced emergency funds of more than 130 million dollars to support recovery from cyclone amphan. the storm's left around a hundred people dead. now on bbc news, another chance to see some of the uk government's latest briefing on coronavirus, held earlier today at downing street.

it was led by the home secretary priti patel. good afternoon and welcome to the government's daily briefing on coronavirus. i'm pleased to be joined this afternoon by paul lincoln, the director general of border force, and by sir patrick vallance, our chief scientific adviser. firstly, i would like to update you on the latest daily figures. 3,000,200 and 31,000 -- 3,000,291 test have been carried out in the uk. including 100 30,497 test carried out yesterday. 254,000, 195 people have tested positive and that is an increase of 3287 cases since yesterday. 9307 people are currently in hospital with coronavirus. that is down 14% from 10,781 this time

last week. and sadly, of those tested positive for coronavirus, across all settings, 36,393 people have now died. that is an increase of 351 fatalities since yesterday. all our thoughts, prayers and deepest sympathies remain with all those who have lost their loved ones. at this time of national emergency, it is crucial that we continue to remain alert and save cou ntless continue to remain alert and save countless more lives. that means doing everything to control this terrible disease, taking the right action at the right time to prevent action at the right time to prevent a second deadly wave. that is why i'm announcing today the next step in our cross government approach, and these include taking public health restrictions at the border. let me explain why we are bringing

these forward. as other restrictions finally start to ease, following too ha rd finally start to ease, following too hard months of lockdown, the answer as to why we are bringing these and it is simple. it is to protect that problem progress and prevent a resurgence in the second wave of the virus. we are following the science and introducing public health measures that are supported by sage. this will require international reliance to self—isolate first 14 day. that is the incubation period of the virus. if people have become infected overseas, we can limit the spread of the virus at home. as we are taking this action, we are taking it at a time when it will be the most effective. passengers arrivals have been down by 99% compared to the previous year. now we are past the peak of this virus. we must take steps to go out —— as a

transmission rate across the united kingdom falls in the number of travellers arriving in the uk begin to increase, imported cases could pose a larger threat. this is because they could become a high proportion of the overall number of infections in the uk, and therefore increase the spread of the disease. if far fewer people being infected in this country and with the public having worked so hard to bring our number down, —— bring the r number down, during this next phase will have a much better impact, potentially causing a second wave. this is a different story from when domestic transmission was at its peak and went overseas travel was at an all—time low. led by the prime minister, the whole government has worked across all government departments, including with the devolved administrations to develop these measures. we do not take these steps lightly. this is extremely

challenging, and these are difficult times for the entire nation. as our freedoms have been sadly but necessarily, but we do not underestimate how hard these will be for people up and down the country and also those who already sacrificed so much to help beat and drive down the spread of coronavirus. i know that families, both at home and abroad, are desperate to be reunited, but by taking these steps, we can save many more lives. by making it possible for more families and more friends to safely be reunited in the future. we also recognise how hard these changes will be for our travel sector. and leisure sectors were already struggling to these unprecedented times. across government, will continue to work with them and support what is an incredibly die dynamic sector to find new ways to open travel and tourism in a safe and responsible way. we will review these temporary public health measures in every

three weeks to ensure they remain the right ones for our road map to recovery. and these measures will be introduced from the 8th ofjune, so that people arriving in the uk will be required to self—isolate for 14 days, except for those on a short list of exemptions. arrivals will be required to provide contact and address details, to help trace them shall be need to. given the amazing public spirit and the level of compliance we've seen so far, we expect the vast majority of people to do the right thing and comply with these new requirements. we know that the vast majority of people will continue to act responsively, to stop a second wave. we will not allow a small minority, i reckless minority, to enter a dangerous ball. there will be penalties for those who break these measures. border force will be on the front line of implementing the changes with spot checks as people rely on —— arrive

in the uk. paul lincoln will shortly speak to us and provide an update on the steps people need to take. i would like to thank our board for staff and their officers for the role they play. and for all they are doing to protect our nation. we are doing to protect our nation. we are do working across all four nations of the uk to make these public health mothers work, but i will now turn to the approach that is being taken here in england. —— public health measures. we will conduct spot checks to make sure people self—isolate, and those who refused to comply could be refused entry. public health england will set up a service to contact people at random to ensure they understand the requirements and to also ensure they are self—isolating. 0ur outstanding police will continue to do as they've done diligently across the country to engage, if explain and encourage people to follow the rules. we will empower them to use

enforcement as a last resort. anyone breaking their 14 day quarantine could face a penalty of £1000, and that will be a fixed penalty notice. ultimately, that could also go into potential prosecution and an unlimited fine for failure to comply with the sanctions. we will keep these penalties under review and will be unafraid to increase them if thatis will be unafraid to increase them if that is required. but have no doubt, we are taking these measures at the right time because we're serious about saving lives and controlling the virus. and we will be guided by the virus. and we will be guided by the science and the public health of the science and the public health of the public and the country will a lwa ys the public and the country will always come first. which is why we are implementing these restrictions at the border now. our absolute priority remains to stop the spread of the infection, to save lives and stop and prevent a second dangerous wave of this virus. that also means supporting our nhs and making

short—term sacrifices together to stop coronavirus. i will now hounded over to paul lincoln, who will update us and provide a —— talk about the measures and how they will be in plummeted. enqueue. before we consider the health measures, may i start by paying tribute to border force officers and staff, saying how proud i am for the professionalism and education which has been shown during the pandemic. —— professionalism and dedication. the concept of our work has changed. an air passenger arrivals, there been down 99% compared to the previous year. but elsewhere, work has continued relentlessly. so despite the threat and challenge, posed by coronavirus, borderfor the threat and challenge, posed by coronavirus, border for staff have been working tirelessly, day in, day out, in ports and airports, with operational partners such as the

counterterrorism policing. this is to keep the country safe it and facilitate the repast ration of the uk. throughout this crisis, they have remained on the front line. 0rganised crime groups and those who wish to do the country harm take every opportunity that every crisis provides, we are seizing attempts exploit vulnerable people. we have turned to face the threat. last month alone, borderforesees more than 700 kilograms of cocaine and heroin. some of which was concealed inside shipments and facemasks. in the last few days alone, we've seen significant amount of contraband, including an ak—47 assault rifle, ammunition, nearly half £1 million of cash, and 20 tonnes of smuggled cocaine. he also intercepted thousands of counterfeit test, continuing our battle. between the zist continuing our battle. between the 21st of march and the 15th of may,

our officers referred 84 consignments of facemasks as otherwise counterfeit or otherwise low standard. we are also continuing to work against illegal migration, in 2019, borderforce to work against illegal migration, in 2019, border force stopped over 40,000 illegal attempts. as well as tackling these threats and working to keep shipments out, the pandemic has highlighted the importance of working to expedite the entry of those items into this country that the country critically needs. border force has facilitated the infiltration of medical equipment and ppe for the nhs, the care homes and ppe for the nhs, the care homes and the police. as well as 220,000 la pto ps and the police. as well as 220,000 laptops and tablets which the department for education had distributed to disadvantaged children to ensure they can access remote education and support. it's also been important that we can help british citizens come home. as part

of that, we are supporting the foreign and commonwealth office with 469 repatriation flights that have brought home 80,000 people. there are five key points which i want to make. first, we are ramping up communications to make sure anyone travelling into the uk is aware of the changes in the self—isolation measures which we put in place. second, we will be asking people to provide their contact details, travel plans and details of accommodation that they will be self—isolating, using an online form before travel, provided they are not one of the invented groups. exempted groups are primarily to meet the uk's international obligation, to provide for continuance of purity into the uk, and national security. the full list will be published shortly on dov .uk, but the list of those not required to self—isolate includes those such as freight workers, to ensure the supply of

goods isn't impacted. and medical professionals. foreign officials who come to the united kingdom to work on essential border securities, such as the french police, who operate in our control. the recognition of the unique nature of the common travel area as well as the unique position of northern island, alljourneys from within the common travel area will also be exempt. 0btaining people's contact details for public health england and for the devolved administrations will support the test, track and trace an equivalent devolved administration programmes. the more rapidly we can identify and contact those at risk of infection, the more effectively we can reduce the more effectively we can reduce the spread of the virus. third, at the spread of the virus. third, at the border, there will be spot checks conducted by border force officers. any obvious errors will trigger a requirement to complete another form trigger a requirement to complete anotherform or trigger a requirement to complete another form or potentially be refused entry into the uk. fourth, passengers will be required to go to

their self—isolation and finally, there is the question of enforcement. potential penalties for noncompliance, for failing to com plete noncompliance, for failing to complete the form, and £1000 for breaching the terms of self—isolation. in extreme circumstances, border force officers do reserve the right to refuse entry to any non—british or nonresident who don't follow these regulations. we spent the vast majority of people who take this seriously and do the right thing —— we will take enforcement action against the small minority of people who may disregard these actions and therefore further endanger people's lives. the advice is quite clear. if you have the virus, or if you are displaying symptoms, or if you been in contact with someone with the virus, you should not travel. to do so otherwise is potentially putting people's lives at risk. may recognise as the home secretary

said, bringing these measures into force, there are sectors such as the travel industry that may have concerns. we will be working with them on a detailed implementation on them on a detailed implementation on the coming days and also keep the measures regularly under review. we all look forward to a time when travel is fully back up and running. when it is, borderforce stand ready to provide a warm welcome to the uk. in the meantime, it is essential that we use the levers of our disposal to ensure that safety of our communities are still facilitating in the critical trade in the country. buy thank you, paul. patrick. i want to start with some numbers. 0n the right—hand side of the slide is the r, and to remind you, that is the number that is driven from the number of individuals infected by one infected individuals infected by one infected person on average. this has a r of three, meaning three people on

average are infected by one person and the epidemic grows very rapidly. if it's one, that one person is infected by one person and it's flat. we are currently at an r between .71, below one in every area in the uk we think. but potentially close to one. so the epidemic is either flat or declining at the moment in the uk, and in most areas, it's declining, as i will show you. at the epidemic becomes smaller, there are two numbers to concentrate on two on. on the left—hand side of the slide, the numbers who come —— that come from the office of national statistics where they been 14 and a half thousand individuals and to see over time who becomes infected. that's in over 7000

households. what that study households. what that infected. that's in over 7000 households. what that study tells us is that in the two weeks from may the 4th to may the 17th, zero point to point —— 0.25%, are infected and have covid. that comes to a number of about 137,000 across the country. it could be a bigger number. that's the sort of number though. the second important number is the numberof second important number is the number of new infections. this is people every week with new infections, and hear the people every week with new infections, and hearthe number people every week with new infections, and hear the number it looks about 61,000 people per week at the moment. it turns out to be roughly one in 1000 or so people every week are getting an infection. every week are getting an infection. the numbers will come down, but these are the numbers we need to keep an eye on because the lower b

can get these numbers, the more possible it is to release numbers —— at the lower we can get these numbers. next slide. just to show you what this means, and i said repeatedly that the slide is difficult because the number of cases tested here in the number of people positive isn't a reflection of the total number. but what you can see in this slide is the number of tests being done per day have gone up of tests being done per day have gone up a of tests being done per day have gone up a lot. that's the pink columns. the number of people confirmed as a result of that is going down in the green. this is from the 21st of march and now it's coming down. so it's consistent with the idea, the infections in the community are coming down day by day. but quite slowly for the reasons i said. next slide please. as you would expect, the number of people infected is going down, so are the numberof people infected is going down, so are the number of people admitted to

hospital every day. here you can see right the way across wales, england, scotland, northern ireland, the numberof scotland, northern ireland, the number of people in hospital coming down and the number of people in ventilators are coming down. we got numbers of people on ventilators reducing, intensive care patients and the numberof reducing, intensive care patients and the number of admissions coming down. each day reducing. this is an important indication that the indic awe epidemic is shrinking. next slide. people in hospital with the disease are also reducing. you can clearly see the peak when you look at these graphs. most obvious in london, where he can see a peak occurring around the beginning of april and then coming down day by day. you can see it's a bit flat and other places. so it's not decreasing exactly the same rate, but wherever you look, it is decreasing. there's clearly some work to be done to make

sure it decreases everywhere, and the last few numbers are hard to get down, but we have to keep trying to put them down. the are the numbers the better. next slide please. as you would hope and expect, as those numbers come down, infections, people admitted to hospital, people in hospital, people on ventilator beds, so the number of deaths reduced as well. this shows the numbers of deaths from the department of health and social care. a little bit higher if you look at the office for national statistics numbers because these are only covid confirmed. the ons numbers contain suspected as well. but what you can see here is a peak that occurred with a reduction now in the numberof that occurred with a reduction now in the number of deaths. ijust want to pause here to say this peak is an artificial peak. it's a peak that we managed to suppress by the things that you have all done, we have all

done, to adhere to social distancing. the risk is if we move too fast and do things in the wrong way, we get a second peak that would look exactly the too fast and do things in the wrong way, we get a second peak that would look exactly the same, and that's what we've got to avoid. last slide, please. as a reminder, as some of the rules around this have relaxed, it's important that we do maintain the social distancing and we do maintain the rules maintain the the social distancing and we do maintain the rules around distance between people and our interactions. it's really encouraging to see that still, we got good information, good knowledge that actually people are adhering to this on the whole, and of course it's also the case that people are able to do more because the relaxation of rules, and that's important as well. so everything points in the right direction. r between .7 and one. numbers coming down, that we need to keep on with it and make sure we don't relax at

the wrong time and the wrong it and make sure we don't relax at the wrong time and end up with a recurrence and growth again of this epidemic. patrick, thanks very much. that's very clear. i will now move on to questions. the first question is from emma. what guidance and advice do you have, what number will you put on a small gathering? for those who didn't quite hear that question, the question was what guidance and advice you have a couple wobbled weddings. i'm going to speak —— who haven't booked weddings. i have friends who had to cancel their weddings and i think we all know people in the same situation. we just heard from patrick, who spoke about we make sure we have the right measures in particular and to control the virus, but at the same time, we know that everything we do in terms of not just working to control the virus, but making sure we take individual responsibility. it's absently crucial, but i think patrick,

perhaps on this point of gathering, if you would like to expand further about the best advice, because obviously, we are not encouraging gatherings at all. we do want to make sure we can get into a position where people can get back to holding weddings and living as normally as possibly. well, the science advice on transmission is obviously related to the numberof on transmission is obviously related to the number of contacts we have, the closeness of that contact and the closeness of that contact and the direction of the contact. and particularly, we've been aiming to try and break transmission between households and across households and other areas, because that's what ke pt other areas, because that's what kept this under control. so as any decisions are made about relaxing those guidelines, and one thing that's happened in terms of outdoors, we know transmission is less likely, but any decisions to relax would need to be based on risk—based relax would need to be based on risk— based assessment. the relax would need to be based on risk—based assessment. the signs can provide some guidance, but it can't to the number —— the science.

provide some guidance, but it can't to the number -- the science. thank you, patrick. next question, please. this is from giovanni from cambridge who asked, when will didn'tjust open and how will this is really a health question. but it is an important one and it's clear that some professions are more than likely to be close to people for long periods, and we may get some sort of era civilization of some sort of era civilization of some of the data so there are risks. this is being looked at by the chief medical officer in terms of what could be done to reduce that, and of course dentists are health care professionals who are used to working in environments with

infection risk. i know this is being looked at very carefully. i know the cmo and others are looking at what the guidance should be that would allow this to happen and absolutely recognise that this is the key thing that people want to see open for all the reasons that have been put by giovanni. thank you, patrick. can we now move on to direct questions? from the media. first question is from tom burridge, bbc. good afternoon, tom. good afternoon. i have a question about the quarantine and thena have a question about the quarantine and then a question from a colleague about schools. home secretary, now that this measure is coming in, is it fairto that this measure is coming in, is it fair to assume now that most summer it fair to assume now that most summer holidays abroad will not happen this year? the second question is while the risk for children are judged to be relatively low if schools reopen, to what extent might they be more serious for families and for the wider community? thank you, tom. to answer

your first community? thank you, tom. to answer yourfirst question, of community? thank you, tom. to answer your first question, of course, the advice is not about booking holidays right now. we are bringing in these measures for very clear reasons as right now. we are bringing in these measures for very clear reasons as i have already outlined. paul lincoln has also explained how we will bring those measures end. the other point to note is of course, advice from commonwealth offices, you are not to travel and please follow the advice they are putting on their website, which is nothing but essential travel. this is absolutely not about booking holidays. we have to be clear about... we want to avoid a second wave and that is vital. i think in terms of your second questions about schools and safety around children reopening schools, i did its around children reopening schools, i did it's really important to recognise right now, many of our schools are actually open. many of those schools are doing fantastic work, providing schooling for children of key workers, but also equally as important, vulnerable children. there are many, many

vulnerable children. hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children who are safer in school and many, many cases. but of course you asked the question about infection control and families. that is of course something that has to be looked at. very much in local and localised levels, but also following the advice in government and the scientific advice. that is crucial. collies across government are working on this right now. —— colleagues. it's been blowing a hooley in the north today, certainly across scotland, northern ireland, and to an extent, northern england too. all because of this storm that's just side sweeping us really, and the strongest gusts have been in the northwest. strong enough to snap big branches. now through the course of tonight, the heavy rain will also remain across western scotland. elsewhere, just a few showers. the breeze will also remain strong. in fact, if anything, through the course of the night and into tomorrow, the winds will be

picking up across the south as well. another cold night, around nine in the north or the south. it remains very blustery with rain across western scotland, especially during the course of saturday. gusts of wind are likely to exceed 40 miles an hour in the south of the country tomorrow, which means branches possibly down, that sort of thing. really gusty, gusty day. the good news is it calms down on sunday and then for monday, it looks as though those temperatures are back on the rise.

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