back. thanks very much. thanks very much for your question, great to have you here in downing street. that concludes our daily coronavirus briefing. see you again soon.

go live to cape canaveral because a rather dramatic moment, a fleet of cars, taking the astronauts goodbye say goodbye to their families, now going to the launch pad itself. it has a going to the launch pad itself. it hasa in going to the launch pad itself. it has a in america for quite a long time. that has not been seen in america. they are the accidents heading off to the market. time for a look at the weather. a lot of rain in florida. unlike here at home, or the sun was out again today. in temperatures reaching 26 degrees around the london area. still high—pressure in

charge of our weather coming into it a very weak weather front and steering to the north of northern ireland and it is that increasing the cloud in scotland already. it will bring some rain to an area of the uk that is already saying more than his fair share of rain so far this month. northern scotland. elsewhere it will be dry, patchy cloud around and probably the lowest temperatures will be across the northeast of england. what is left of that rain in northern scotland soon moves of that rain in northern scotland soon moves away of that rain in northern scotland soon moves away the cloud breaks up to give sunshine except for the northern isles it will turn into a sunny day for northern ireland and increasing amounts of sunshine more widely. a bit more of a breeze in the southeast of england, not here that we will have the highest temperatures, but the silly breezes pushing the warmth more towards the west into wales in the west midlands and the west country. around the mid 20s. as we moving to friday, there could be patchy cloud for eastern parts of england and will not last long. the odd bit affair with cloud bubbles appear but there will be a

breeze pushing the heat northwards into scotland. likely to make the mid—20s and it could be warmer for the central but of scotland than in parts of the southeast of england. living into the weekend, no significant changes come still high—pressure around, the centre will be across scandinavia and the centre will be across scandinavia in these weather fronts will be kept at bay in ourarea these weather fronts will be kept at bay in our area will be drawn and from continental europe. again it will be a warm weekend. some fear with the cloud again but on the holcomb a lot of strong showing time and hi ev levels and temperatures peaking at 26 or 27 degrees and once again, no rain. —— i give you levels. thank you very much. every minute of our top story. a new testing a tracing system to identify eve ryo ne testing a tracing system to identify everyone in england who may have coronavirus is going live tomorrow. anybody who test positive will be question about recent close contacts and those people will be asked to quarantine for 14 days. that is often the bbc news at six. goodbye

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good evening, i'm ollie foster at the bbc sport centre. the premier league has released the latest results of its covid—i9 testing programme. just over a thousand tests were taken over the last two days and four have returned positive. that takes the total number of cases to 12 after three rounds. this comes as the cloud voted today to support the training from tarawa. players can from tomorrow, clubs can engage in contact training. that's after they voted unanimously in favour of the government guidlines that were issued on monday. here's our reporter laura scott. with this phase of training will involve is close contact, tackling

and unable the cloud to bring players into full team training so they could do 11 from a mile. when they could do 11 from a mile. when the clubs will choose to do that or not is entirely up to them it will come with an increased risk of transmission, but as i said, the players will want to feel they've had a lot of training before they return to matches. the superleague netball season in england won't resume. the ten teams had played just three matches before it was stopped in march. england netball has now cancelled it although they are looking at the possiblitly of staging an alternative, smaller scale tournament later in the year. we are looking at all options at the moment. as we have done over the last ten weeks. we are looking at a lot of different creative options and innovative ideas and the super league clubs have very much been a pa rt league clubs have very much been a part of those discussions. but if we do return and autumn that will take additional investment if we did that piece. it is likely to be a short

form competition but hopefully one that will keep netball visible and keep the morale high and give something come an element of belief to our loyal fans who have been very patient through this period. the ecb should release their provisional schedule for the summer by the end of the week with england's tests against the west indies and pakistan expected to take place atjust two grounds, old trafford and the ageas bowl from july. the oval was due to stage the first test against the west windies next week, the surrey chief executive richard gould says he can understand the decision but is optimistic about the sport returning this year. it needs to be decided that we've got being used with hotels on—site, and if that helps to deliver the confidence for the event to go ahead, then that needs to be the priority. if things change, who knows. maybe we will pull some type

of international regulation. but the first is this doing the right thing and coming up with a plan for my workable plan. i am optimistic we will see a pretty full international calendar. starting behind closed doors definitely. i think we will also see a county schedule of some sort. i don't know when that would start, clearly it would be sometime after the international crickets starts, but i think as she see sports finding ways, sometimes quite innovative ways to get back on pitch, we will be doing that. so i am hopeful and so crickets where is out there. do not despair. we hope to try and bring you some cricket before the season is out. rugby league returns in australia tomorrow, with the country seeing hardly any new cases of coronavirus — the nrl is ready to go again, simon atkinson reports from sydney.

it doesn't really lend itself to social distancing. but this will be i'll's social distancing. but this will be i'll‘s first major sport back after the covid—i9 showdown. rugby leaks in rl want to return fast. that shut down. now the biggest hurdle is when public confidence. starting it up again, this quickly, it seems to me ridiculously risky. if there was no such thing as rugby league, and you had to invent a game whereby coronavirus could be transmitted in the quickest manner possible as wide as possible among a group of two or three dozen men, you come up with the rugby league. to try and make sure that doesn't happen, there are dozens sure that doesn't happen, there are d oze ns of sure that doesn't happen, there are dozens of measures to minimise risk. from daily health checks and cleaning match balls to keeping well back. and for those at the heart of the game, tight restrictions on and

off the pitch. the players and the officials and everybody have to make sacrifices and self—isolate and keep away from the community. they go to the ground and go home again. that is all they should be doing. very little risk when you do that. it is a good example for all sports around the world that if you have the proper security measures in place, you can get sports going as long as everybody abides by the bio—security measures. that is not guaranteed. these three high—profile players we re these three high—profile players were fined after going on a camping trip. and there are plenty of other controversies. this new zealand team has been allowed into play, even though international travel is effectively banned everybody else. only six grounds have been used for the tournament restart so that means for most clubs, no home matches. it might not be as big disadvantage as it sounds, though. because one of the key conditions of the nrl coming backis the key conditions of the nrl coming back is that games are played and empty stadiums what's i'm lucky to be out here. but the players at

least, that is a price worth paying to resume their careers. it is a shame obviously and we love having all the fans there. but they will watch from their homes anyway. and we don't have that personal contact with them, we will try and do a good job for them. if the first two weeks of the season are trouble—free, and ifi of the season are trouble—free, and if i show you's run a virus infection rates stay low, the leak hopes there will be some spectators allowed byjuly. hopes there will be some spectators allowed by july. another hopes there will be some spectators allowed byjuly. another big step for the sports remarkable return here. good luck to them. much more on the bbc sport website. more bundesliga matches this evening and details of the premier league latest return to training stepping up and looking to return next month. sting that's all from sportsday. goodbye.

hello. we are watching bbc news. will start in england tomorrow. the prime minister has announced a test and trace system that will start in england tomorrow. people will be contacted by the nhs and told if they have been in contact with someone who's tested positive for coronavirus. they'll then be instructed to self—isolate for 14 days. borisjohnson has acknowledged that the new system will be a ‘huge imposition' on some individuals but says it will ‘change people's lives' and is key to lifting the lockdown. the scheme was detailed by health and social care secretary matt hancock at the downing street briefing. if you have symptoms, you must isolate immediately and get yourself a test. yesterday, 2013 people tested positive. in the next of is that through contact tracing, like detectives, the nhs clinician from

nhs test and trace and the person was tested positive work together to identify the possible movements of the virus where it is been, and who else it might‘ve been effective. then we isolate those contacts who might have been affected, so the virus is unable to spread and we break the chain of transmission. think of it like this. the virus exist only to reproduce both of that is is so biological purpose to make as many copies of the self as possible. —— that is a soul. if we can thought that purpose, we can control the virus and ultimately defeated. —— stop that purpose. let's get reaction from the labour party to all of this, and i'm joined now by alex norris, the shadow minister for health and social care. good evening. matt hancock they're calling for a detective work because it between the infected person and the nhs. is this going to work? this

is really important. we support the government in doing this. a big part of defeating this horrible virus. we've been calling for this for many weeks and we are glad we are entering into this next phase. if people want to get out a locked out and try to get back to normal, proper testing and tracing is critical. is this the right time to be doing this? other countries which have been more successfully suppress the virus did this much earlier in the virus did this much earlier in the sequence? it is the right time ina the sequence? it is the right time in a sense of immediately is the right time to do it. the original testing and tracking and tracing project was stopped on march the 12th. it is a bad idea ten weeks of not knowing who people have been carried this virus and coming into contact with, a bad thing, and other countries who have been doing this throughout have been much better so there will be questions a time for there will be questions a time for the government to answer there but at the moment, what we need people to do is to understand this new programme and commit to it. just as

they have done the lock in recent weeks and i think the british people would do that and do it well. we have to. -- during the lockdown recently. matt hancock talked about it being people prospects of a duty to self—isolate. should they find it is come into contact with somebody with the virus, and a general recognition this might be very difficult for some people do you think that the call first to be dt is undermined by the cummings affair? yes, it is. it is the reason why the dominic cummings affair actually matters. not because it is some boring political bun fight. it drove a carriage horse through the public health guidance and the prime is that a choice over the weekend to either choose his guidance or to choose his pal and i'm afraid he chose his ladder but i'm sure the british people would do a betterjob than this and i know they will recognise the irrespective of what others may have done it is vital that we all play a role in our duties. i think people actually will ta ke duties. i think people actually will take the high road and commit to this and will make a great success of it. before the dentistry

briefing, the prime minister appeared at the liaison committee and was asked a series of questions. what did you take away from that? —— downing street briefing. there was not a lot of detail. i think the committee chairs struggled with that. you saw a prime minister who was very keen to move on from the dominic cummings matter but we know that public opinion polling is certainly come and his e—mail box a people may not be ready to do that but we have some very pertinent questions about how this testing and tracking project will work. there will be more questions in the future days, not because we are trying to trip anybody it but because we want this to work. i think you can expect to see this carry—on over the next few days. it does look as if the prime minister is very much sticking by dominic cummings. he is helping to write out all of the controversy. would you understand the desire to parkit would you understand the desire to park it and to move on? the crisis is bigger than one man. yes, of

course. i've never met a politician yet who want to linger on the bad news. they want to get out the new next thing. it is not always within our gift. we are clear what matters. we ca re our gift. we are clear what matters. we care about this beating this virus. part of that sometimes is understanding the impact of the decisions you make. that is why we still think it would be right for there to be an inquiry into the events of the last few days. and that for the prime minister to consider whether it revs wise to choose his friend over the public health guidance. and nevertheless, we put the confidence into british people to get this right and we all must play a role in the future days and weeks. get to talk to you. thank you very much. that's good to talk to you. i'm joined now by dr chris smith, a consultant virologist at the university of cambridge. good evening to you. what role is local government going to play in

helping the nhs to identify where these covid—19 hotspots might be? the role of the local government will be really important on the local area and it is good news that the secretary of state has recognised that and is brought in local government because we have that experience with public health, sexual transmitted diseases, emergency planning, environmental, and this is something that local councils do want to on a regular basis. know the local people. of course this is on a far greater scale. but having that local knowledge will really help to understand if there is a flare up and where it is and what can be done about that. whereas a national level is sometimes overlooked globally so we welcome it and we welcome the funding as well. there is an additional £300 million coming to local government, ring fenced for testing and tracking and tracing. how much will you connect with the

nhs system of contact traces? will bea nhs system of contact traces? will be a two—way flow. we would know exactly what they are looking for and working together to understand exactly where people are and how we can identify them and then we will be working together as already local governments is routinely doing this through environmental health, and trading standards, and public health, so it is something that we regularly do and we understand how to trace and track people, and of course the majority of times, people are ina course the majority of times, people are in a local environment and so it is that localism that is really important. we will be working with the nh collects all the time. that's nhs college. so far, we are working very well with government and assisting the nhs to make sure that the beds are kept as free as possible in the nhs hospitals. and do you worry that the call by the health secretary for people to follow their civic duty and self—isolate if they are contacted

by co nta ct self—isolate if they are contacted by contact traces, do you worry that is undermined by the dominic cummings affair coachella i think people would do the civic duty. cummings affair coachella i think people would do the civic dutylj think people would do the civic duty.|j think people understand what should happen. if they are told to go into self isolation. across the country, over the last nine weeks, people have been doing just that. it is important we continue to do it and we have to break the chain of this virus. and that is really important, so virus. and that is really important, so if somebody is contacted, there will be explained thoroughly why they are being contacted and when they are being contacted and when the context may have been made, so people can understand and make that decision and break the chain. that wasn't quite my question. my question was whether you fear that public adherence to this scheme might be undermined by the cummings affair? i think people will adhere to the scheme. when they are contacted, the person contacting will go through and explain exactly why and why they should self—isolate. but people have gone

through an awful lot of self isolation over the past nine weeks. they would do their civic duty i'm sure. one last question ifi may. there has been some concerns in previous days that there were two parallel systems. a system of the contact traces run by the nhs and there were the local directors of health and that the two were not actually going to be talking to each other very very effectively. does that worry you? that is not going to be the case. we will be talking to each other. it is really important that governments and the nhs have recognised a good job local government can do in helping to break the chain. thank you very much. i'm going out by dr chris smith who isa i'm going out by dr chris smith who is a consultant neurologist at the university of cambridge. that's a virologist. the system a contact tracing being brought in at this time, what do you think of it? a goodidea time, what do you think of it? a good idea and will it work? the

principal is a sign one. they have been used for decades to eradicate in one case a dread disease and to control many others, for instance the ebola outbreak in 2014 and to the ebola outbreak in 2014 and to the present day, and the smallpox scourge the present day, and the smallpox scourge that we managed to successfully eradicate earlier or late in the last century. this approach is sound. it is being launched and we will find out whether it will work in the present system. but certainly the approach is sound and therefore it has every reason that i will be successful. is sound and therefore it has every reason that i will be successfulm was a system that was in place until march the 12th. the prime minister we re march the 12th. the prime minister were ask about it today and said to be honest it was a question of capacity. would you have questions in your mind as to why it was introduced earlier i would have been more effective if it had been introduced earlier? it was introduced earlier? it was introduced fairly rapidly. from when we first knew there was a risk of the virus bring in the country, there was a very effective test and

reasonable testing capacity willed that out, is scale quite slowly but certainly we were doing identification of cases, quarantining people, and trying to stamp out the spread. but this sort of strategy is only effective when you have a tractable number of cases. and with the trajectory that the operator followed, he took off really quickly and we saw a very large numbers of cases which place the numbers well beyond the scope of the numbers well beyond the scope of the testing capacity but also the tracing capacity. so the safest way to control that is to do what was signed, which was to put the country into a set of lockdown, break the chain of transmission, and what we effectively do is wind the clock back. and we have put the numbers of cases that are now transmitting in society back to the containment phase error. which was what was happening back in january phase error. which was what was happening back injanuary if you cash your mind. where back to phase one. now we have got a tractable number of cases. we have a tractable level of disease spread. which makes

it possible to do esme hancock announced that the afternoon in his briefing. to pursue the cases to the use testing to find out where they are and to be like detectives and find what the cases are. —— —— what matt hancock announced this afternoon. the contact traces will have to rely very heavily on members of the public. one to follow the guidelines to self—isolate come and to remember who they have any contact with. he has. this one of the shortcomings of this sort of approach. that is really they were coming from where the app was concerned. that is the gap the app will actually feel. obviously there are will actually feel. obviously there a re co nta cts will actually feel. obviously there are contacts that you know, context you can remember, because if you test positive, today, tomorrow you will start getting contacted by this army of contact traces and they will be asking you who have you had contact with during the period you have been effective. if you cannot remember, or you just don't know who you had contact with them a good

example of this if you took public transport, yet potentially had contact with all the people there on the same carriage or saint blesses you. you are not necessarily know know those people are. they're obviously the limits of what this sort of approach can do the liver. but with some wire technology on top which is where the apple coming, i hope when they bring that onstream, that will bias additional traction. but these techniques to work. —— when the app comes online. they have been tried and trusted. there is reason to be optimistic we can bear down on this and keep the virus under control. you think this is potentially are centring more optimistic phase? yes. there will be a learning phase with this of course. the politicians who are giving the press conference that we have been watching this afternoon web emphasising that there will a lwa ys web emphasising that there will always be recourse. when you lot something on this sort of scale, you never done before, this is a new thing, there will be wrinkles and a shakedown while they get it working smoothly. but it is a tried and

tested technique and epidemiologist have been using it for decades. so it should work. we know this works. but there will be a time where we work or how to make it work incredibly efficiently but we have got a lot of other things to throw at this. a lot more testing. 160,000 testing yesterday. that it's very helpful in being able to quickly and with agility pounced on the cases. it will depend on the compliance of the british public. we have to get behind this. people have got to actually agree that when they get that call, isolate yourself for two weeks and that we do and our civic duty esme hancock called her. thank you. —— matt hancock called it. now it's time for a look at the weather. temperatures were as high as 26 degrees today. the high temperatures in the southeast of england. for many parts of the country is been a dry date with a lot of sunshine around as well. strong sunshine and we sought

more sunshine developing for a while in scotland. cloud amounts are increasing now. still have high pressure in charge of our weather. around the top of it we have this weather friend here around the top of it we have this weatherfriend here moving in. increasing the cloud in scotland and also bringing with it some outbreaks of rain. that is merely going to be affecting northern scotland. we see more cloud for northern ireland and some cloud coming back into some decent parts of england. otherwise disguise will be clear. a warm night and low temperatures going to be in the northeast of england. six or 7 degrees. you can see by the end of the night, not much rain left in scotland. what is left will move away into the north sea and cloud within and in scotland, sunshine will develop away from the northern isles and we will see a much any good day for northern ireland. sunshine across england and wales after that low cloud. a bit more of after that low cloud. a bit more of a breeze and noticeable in the southeast of england. and need to liberate the pushing the higher temperatures this time was towards wales in the west country and also the west midlands. around mid 20s.

thus temperatures may not change a great deal over the next few days. early low cloud for england and on friday and on a dry day and plenty of sunshine a bit more of a breeze and noticeable around coastal areas, pushing the warmth further north all the way into scotland where we will get temperatures into the mid—20s, warmer and essential part of scotland. it has been a very dry month for many parts of the country. it looks like it or staying dry over the next few days. could be a working breaker considering the southeast in some places have bad working breaker considering the southeast in some places have had no rain at all this month. but over the weekend the high pressure still in charge. that is been the main reason it is been so dry. keep the weather front bay and introduce our air coming in from continental europe. the temperature is going to around the mid 20s. but for pretty much the book of the country, it will be high uv levels. throughout this weekend, strong sunshine around, some cloud bubbling around, but not a great

deal of that. pretty much blue skies and those temperatures peaking at 26 or 27 degrees.

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