be reviewed after 3 weeks but that it may be 6 months before life can return to normal so it's jenny harris says relaxing social distancing efforts could risk a dangerous 2nd pick meanwhile in the u.s. the country's foremost infectious disease experts says the virus may cause as many as 200000 deaths along with millions of infections those answer the phone feel for that prognosis as the federal government considers rolling back some containment measures well in europe italy has recorded a drop in fatalities for a 2nd day the number of new cases is also the lowest reported since wednesday but spain has recorded another 838 deaths a new high there it's infection rate however cause to klein's well it's agencies are warning of these severe risks to refugees docs of borders says people camps on the greek islands. less force needs to be moved immediately meanwhile syria has reported its 1st coronavirus death we start our coverage with a report from paul brennan. a steady procession of hearses bring the latest virus victims to the temporary morgue set up in madrid largest ice rink on sunday spain

thank you very much, deputy chief medical adviser for england, doctor jenny harries.n some wintry showers across scotland, even to some lower levels. through the afternoon, though, the snow will become confined to the hills. further showers for northern ireland, northern england, and scotland. nowhere immune but a good deal of fine, dry weather around. gales, though, for northern ireland, southern scotland and northern england. windy across the board, and that is making it feel cooler than those temperatures suggest. overnight the winds gradually start to ease down. we draw in more of a northerly feed, though, through scotland, and the showers, wintry even to some lower levels. the risk of ice here as well, as temperatures drop to or below freezing. a widespread frost, and it will be a chilly start across the board on friday morning. but a ridge of high pressure helping to settle things down. a lot of sunshine around, many places remaining dry. the cloud will start to increase down towards the south—west of england and wales, as rain starts to edge its way in. hello,

that was the most striking detailfrom dr jenny harries.cit setting out of the likely timeline in terms of the impact on day—to—day lives and suggesting over a six—month period there might be a turning on and off of the restrictions we have got used to in the past week and she pointed out a distinction between that and a so—called lockdown for the full period of time but the expectation from her is you would not be able to suddenly liberalise things in a couple of weeks, that there is a time lag, so when you institute a measure it takes a couple of weeks to work out if it has had the right effect. she thought the next 2—3 months they would need to as sheep oi’ months they would need to as sheep or to keep a lid on the growth of cases and then you would just gradually try to ensure that the peak of cases is kept as low as possible, that is key to ensure that at any one point in time, the nhs can cope. right at the end from jenny harries, saying right now there is plenty of capacity in the nhs to cope, despite news we received about the numbe

health secretary matt hancock and i'm just hearing there from deputy chief medical officer jenny harris and having talking about how just really emphasizing the need for national effort this after yesterday boris johnson on monday brought a new restrictions and you look down across the united kingdom also you seeking a quarter 1000000 volunteers to help handle what is believed to be coming in the shape of the coronavirus when it's major face felt in the united kingdom if indeed they are and also talking of a new temporary hospital that we've built has been built in london and will open shortly let's bring in that rory chalons who speaks to us from lewis in the united kingdom and rory just tell us a little bit more expound for us and what these plans are. well this new hospital is going to be called the n.h.s. in 1000 gail a temporary hospital presumably this is named after florence nightingale the famous nurse from the time of the crimean war. is a very sort of a popular historical figure in the u.k. lots of medical establishments are named after her. the hospital will have looks like i

dr jenny harries, the deputy chief medical officer for england, was talking about a timeline around sixus to october. she acknowledged that the experts can't be specific or explicit because they are dealing with what they describe as a moving target. but clearly, they say they cannot allow these measures that were imposed a week ago to be removed suddenly because the fear would be that a couple of weeks afterwards, there could be another spike in cases they are not saying there is going to be what has been described by some as this lockdown continuing unchanged for six months, but that the measures put in place will have to be removed very, very gradually and that means we will not be back to normal anytime soon. so there are huge implications for all parts of oui’ huge implications for all parts of our lives, whether it be our income, oui’ our lives, whether it be our income, our jobs, our lives, whether it be our income, ourjobs, our businesses, the education of our children, our capacity to move around the country, to go on holiday to see our relatives. profound consequences, lasting

but doctor jenny harries warned the chances of the uk now missing an epidemic are slim to nil.e number of cases in the uk has reached 206. more than 21,000 people here had —— have been tested. dominic hughes joins 21,000 people here had —— have been tested. dominic hughesjoins us now. can you just break these figures down for us, please? yeah, we are still waiting for the department of health and social care to give us a breakdown of the countries. we do know that 16 of the cases are now in scotland. i believe that is five new cases in scotland. but the breakdown between the rest of the countries is not quite clear yet. but we know that there are 206 positive cases. that of course includes the two people who sadly died. the latest death revealed last night, a man in his 80s who was being treated in hospital at milton keynes. he had underlying health conditions but he sadly passed away. i think the key thing is that at this point we have had two deaths. there are 206 people who have been identified as having had this virus. so we are still in the very, very early stages of this

acceptance that it was good to bea general acceptance that it was good to be a long time but you have jenny harrisicer, say that, obviously prepares people for a very, very long haul. rob, the message from her it was that we can't just immediately return to normal, it will be gradual, we are going to have to review it. i agree with john, i don't think what she said will come as a huge surprise to people paying close attention to the situation. certainly, we have not had it laid out so clearly as it was today. it was clear that the three—week initial lockdown is just the start, it is clear that is as goodis the start, it is clear that is as good is about three months before any of that lockdown is lifted. doctor harris as a medic not a politician making decisions. she wasn't clear about which restrictions might or might not remain in place after the restrictions for six months or maybe even longer as she suggested, clearly some sort of partial lockdown. perhaps help schools and universities will remain closed, most people will have to work from home, i desire to see a return to mass gathering. mayb

vicki, thank you, here's michael gove and jenny harries, deputy chief medical officerfor england, harriesng in the fight against covid—19. i am joined today by doctorjenny harries, the deputy chief medical officer, and professor stephen powis, the medical director of nhs england. i would like first to update you all on the facts about the spread of covid—19 and the steps that we are then taking in the battle against this virus. 143,186 people have now been tested for the virus. of those, 25,150 have tested positive. and sadly, yesterday we recorded the highest single increase in the number of deaths as a result covid—19. in the number of deaths as a result covid-19. 381 in the number of deaths as a result covid—19. 381 people died, meaning that of those hospitalised in the uk, the numberwho that of those hospitalised in the uk, the number who have passed away now totals 1789. every death is the loss of a loved one, and our thoughts and prayers are with those who are grieving. overall, 10,767 people in england have been admitted to hospital with covid—19 symptoms. the largest number of tho

bbc news — as coming up at 11.30 we'll be answering some of your questions on coronavirus with jenny harriesyour questions answered — coming up at half past eleven. the headlines on bbc news: president trump suspends travel from 26 european countries into the us — not including the uk — in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus, which has killed 38 people there. that decision by president trump has caused global stock markets to plunge — with the ftse 100 falling 6%. -- 5%. the government here prepares for an emergency meeting. it's expected to announce stepping up its response to delay the spread of the virus rather than containing it. major breaking news in the sport, we knew la liga, spain's top and second division would be behind closed doors for the next fortnight. now the top division, la liga, will not play any top division matches for the next two match days, that is at least the next ten days. real madrid players are in isolation at the moment, that is because they came into co nta ct moment, that is because they came into contact with one of the real madrid basketball team,

joined today by the chief executive of the nhs simon stephen and deputy chief medical officer jenny harris area i'd like to update you all on the facts of the spread of covid-19 and the steps that we are taking in the battle against the coronavirus. 130,777 people have now been tested for the virus. of those, 14,543 have tested positive. increase in the last day of 2885. that scientific analysis now is at the rate of infection has been doubling every 3 to 4 days. of those who have contracted the virus , 759 have sadly died. our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who have passed away. these figures are a powerful reminder of the need for all of us to. we need to slow the spread of the virus and strengthen the nhs's ability to protect us all. social distancing measures have been put in place to restrict the spread of covid-19. so fewer people should need hospital treatment at any one time. the measures that we put in place our scientific and medical advice and are designed to reduce the rate of infection.and as well as acting to slowthe spread of the virus, we are also actin

the deputy chief medical officer england doctor jenny harries is here to answer your questions.e are on bbc news, bbc two and the facebook and website. this next question is, will everybody get it eventually? that is a bit never ending, but let's go with this season, with this cycle. a large number of people could get it. the thing about a new virus is nobody has antibodies ready made for it. we haven't been exposed before and this virus is having a field day. the desire will be to find as many people to infect as it can. when we plan, we do plan for a worst—case scenario and it is possible that up to 80% of the population could get this. but we need to be really clear that the vast majority of those people are going to have quite mild illness, will be at home, no problem. that is still a very, very high estimate, we think. if we look at somewhere like china, we think about up to 20% or so of the population have been affected. very difficult to say until we've got good testing until we look back and check to see how many people have had it. some people will have it and get no sy

rules will be reviewed after 3 weeks but that it may be 6 months before they are totally removed jenny harris says well lax and social distancing efforts could risk a dangerous 2nd peak america's top infectious diseases expert says cases there could reach into the millions dr anthony fire chief says the prediction is a moving target but up to 200000 americans could die from the virus in the hardest hit cities new york officials warn crucial medical supplies could run it next week the u.s. has the greatest number of confirmed cases worldwide surpassing china and italy looking at what we're seeing now you know i would say between 10200000 cases but i don't want to be held to that because it's deaths i mean we're going to have millions of cases but i just don't think that we really need to make a projection when it's such a moving target $123.00 people have died in the past 24 hours in iran bringing the national total to more than $2600.00 visuals of committed a fish of the national budgets to fight in the virus the government has also banned intercity travel after many iranians defied calls to

, deputy chief medical officerfor introduce jenny harries, deputy chief medical officer for england andagainst the coronavirus. today, the scientific advisory group for emergencies met to discuss the latest evidence on the spread of the virus and the effects of the measures we have already taken to slow its spread and patrick is going to update us in a second about that. i want to repeat that everyone, everyone, must follow the advice to protect themselves and theirfamilies, but, the advice to protect themselves and their families, but, also, the advice to protect themselves and theirfamilies, but, also, more importantly, to protect the wider public. so stay—at—home for seven days if you think you have the symptoms. remember, the two key symptoms. remember, the two key symptoms are a high temperature and a continuous new cough. the whole household to stay at home for 14 days if one member of that household thinks he or she has the symptoms. avoid all unnecessary gatherings, pubs, clubs, bars, restaurants, theatres and so on, work from home if you can. wash your hands and we have already

government's daily press briefing daily briefing in the fight against covert 19 i'm joined today by dr jenny harris the deputy chief medical officer and professor stephen paris the medical director of any chess england. i'd like 1st to update you on the facts about the spread of coverage 19 and the steps that we are then taking in the battle against this virus 143180 6 people have now been tested for the virus of those 25150 have tested positive and sadly yesterday we recorded the highest single increase in the number of deaths as a result of 819381 people died meaning that of those hospitalized in the u.k. the number who have passed away now totals 1789 every death is the loss of a loved one and our thoughts and prayers are with those who are grieving. overall 10767 people in england have been admitted to hospital with covered 1000 symptoms the largest number of those is in london with 3915 people involved little care while in the middle and the number of those hospitalized is now 1918 and accelerating upwards. these numbers reinforce the vital importance of following the government's social dista

thirty in the morning you can put your questions to the deputy chief medical officer for england, jenny harriesons of the world health organisation's so send in you questions to yourquestions@bbc.co.uk or use the twitter hashtag #bbcyourquestions. thanks very much for watching this addition. could mass testing be the secret to lowering coronavirus death rates? bbc news has gained exclusive access to one of south korea's super labs where they're testing thousands of coronavirus swabs a day. the country set up a network of nearly 100 laboratories in its first week of dealing with the outbreak. south korea has tested more people per capita than anywhere else in the world. scientists believe this approach is saving lives. here's laura bicker. getting critical patients to hospital is race against time. they have to be tracked and tested quickly. so in this battle to contain the contagion, these labs have become the front line. so because of the safety, we are not going to go into this room, because this is where the samples are being opened and prepared. they're testing up to 20,000 people a day, mo

thinks it is necessary in something we learned yesterday from the deputy chief medical officer, jenny harris, restrictions of some kind she said could be with us for about six months. she was stressing that asa six months. she was stressing that as a moving target, it depends on oui’ as a moving target, it depends on our behaviour. she is not saying it's going to be a total lockdown to the period stop could see measures adjusted, lifting the lid here and there. the overall message was that these restrictions could be with us for some time stop we'll be talking to the social care minister at 7:30am this morning. at 7:30am this morning. the spanish government has told all non—essential workers to stay at home for the next eleven days, as part of tighter coronavirus restrictions. 6,500 people in spain have died — more than in any country except italy. 0ur reporter gavin lee has been monitoring the situation across europe from brussels. gavin what's the latest? across europe, there are 380,000 people testing positive for coronavirus. of those, 100,000 are cases in italy in 10,000 people have 110

will be refuse after 3 weeks but says that it may be 6 months before life can return to normal dr jenny harris says relaxing social distancing efforts sisu could risk a dangerous 2nd pick meanwhile in the u.s. the country's foremost infectious disease expert says the virus may cause as many as 200000 deaths along with millions of infections dr anthony for she offered that prognosis as the federal government considers rolling back some containment measures in europe italy. has recorded a wreck or drop in fatalities for a 2nd day the number of new cases is also the lowest reported since whedon's day but spain records is another 838 deaths a new high it's infection rates have ever declined and aid agencies are warning of the severe risks to refugees doctors without borders says people in camps on the greek island of less false it's been moved immediately meanwhile syria has reported its 1st coronavirus death we start our coverage with this reports from paul brennan . a steady procession of hearses bring the latest virus victims to the temporary morgue set up in madrid largest ice rink on sunday s

jenny harries, deputy chief medical adviser was quite clear on the difficulty of identifying the 1.5on the side of caution, it may be that people are put on this list, which would mean isolating for this 12 period, but there might be a way round that if it turned out people did not really need to be on that list but had ended up on it. effectively, if there has been a mistake, it means they could potentially turn it round, we will have to see how that works out. it sounds like that the gp lists are not complete and that is a big problem and there will be a big programme now to collate all the names and numbers of people and contact them. and a broader point about the advice to the general population, clearly some frustration on the part of the prime minister and with this warning that if people cannot follow the measures, and he made it clear it applies to children as much as anyone else, if they cannot follow it or if they will not follow it, more measures will come. he was asked specifically about that. it is a key question. will he mmp that. it is a key question. will he ramp it u

and jenny harris, that was mentioned by the prime minister?concerning. mrjohnson, is something that is deeply concerning. mr johnson, can't is something that is deeply concerning. mrjohnson, can't you just say in simple terms, what you think about people who are ignoring the advice, he resisted the temptation yesterday to say they we re temptation yesterday to say they were behaving immoral. do you think if people are not following this advice, they are behaving immoral? just very specifically, the less the prime minister gave and jenny outlined as a specific list, i was talking in general terms but there isa talking in general terms but there is a category places where social contact happens which is significant to the spread of the virus. i meant very specifically the places that she and the prime minister had referred to already. yes, it is very much those areas where people are gathering for social reasons. in many ways they are encouraging the spread of the disease by virtue of those establishments. restaurants, cafes, bars are where you

jenny harries did stress we must not take our foot off the pedal, she said the public must stay—at—home think that has been largely down to local distribution problems. we seem to have quite a bit of equipment in the country. some hospitals have got it and some have not. the government say they have been quickly getting those out this week and hospitals should be receiving them. the british medical association said it is unacceptable and their members are anxious about treating patients with this disease without the right equipment. we are hearing stories of nhs staff who are self isolating because they have certain mild symptoms. but they are not being tested themselves. why is that? symptoms. but they are not being tested themselves. why is that7m is simplya tested themselves. why is that7m is simply a lack of testing facilities. we started off using ten regional public health england centre to test people. hospitals have started using pathology labs now, and we are using private sector labs. but there has been problems getting hold of the testing equipment. there is a lot of demand o

she did, jenny harries was perhaps more candid than the politicians can be saying it may go on for sixhe actually said it was plausible it could go on even longer. that's not the whole lockdown, but some aspects of it may have to continue for many months. it was interesting this morning hearing from various government voices, none of them really wanted to accept the idea of six months because it's frankly daunting. that is a really long period of time. but when you listen to all the scientists, there isa listen to all the scientists, there is a broad consensus that lockdown, roughly, as we know it, is likely to continue for 12, 13 weeks, that seems to be the consensus. there is little prospect when we have this review at easter of the restrictions being lifted because we will be at the height of the epidemic then. the broad consensus is we have three months worth of the lockdown. the question is what happens after that. hope is we can begin to ease off, but we genuinely don't know what will happen, if the virus starts to spread again. that's why there is this caution about how far and

professor chris whitty's deputy, doctor jenny harries. 's better that they succumbed to this now. the next stage is putting those in place. nicola, sorry to interrupt. i was just looking at the front page of the mirror. obviously you are the political correspondent. the headline is, nobody is safe. ijust wonder with borisjohnson headline is, nobody is safe. ijust wonder with boris johnson and headline is, nobody is safe. ijust wonder with borisjohnson and matt hancock being diagnosed with covid—19, and there being a lot of criticism that the government has had to push back on about whether or not the measures in place now are severe enough, i wonder if we flip the question and say, well, rather than him showing he is fine and he will get through this, i wonder if there is almost some evidence now that tougher measures should be introduced, and here is an example of why? you know, i think that's beena of why? you know, i think that's been a really difficult question to get an answer to. because we just don't really know at this stage. the g

harris, can you be more precise about the peak of this outbreak? you.ank i will turn to simon and jenny in a second. i think they have both contracted the virus and it's a reminder that the virus does not discriminate. we are all at risk and that is why it is so important that we practice social distancing measures. those are in place in government. ministers are working remotely and from home, using videoconferencing, to make sure we follow the strict advice all of us should be following to help protect the nhs. simon? simon: on the question of cancer care, we've been clear we do want essential and urgent treatments to continue. but that cancer specialist should have the opportunity with their patients to decide whether it is more risky for somebody to embark on treatment at this particular time given your more vulnerable to infection if you begin a treatment, perhaps chemo, or become immunocompromised as a result. those are decisions that need to be taken. we've also agreed a landmark gmail with the deals across the nation, which has given us the ability to look at the busy hospitals