well we are now joined live by simon clarke a microbiologist reading university for more on this the w.h.o. recently said there might never be what they called a magic bullet for coded 19 and yet we have this vaccine coming closer and closer to becoming a reality coming from russia how much hope should this give people. a vaccine being developed is a good sort of the spirit and we should congratulate the research and wish them well but it was nice to remember that there are lots of that. law a lot of them showing promise but i'm afraid most of them will say oh i mean. vaccines vaccines and development have over a 90 percent failure rate and that's the very last stages so even if the initial stages are very promising they can through the final. well now they're saying russia still does have that final stage to get through of the trial but if there vaccine is approved well other countries then focus on what's already become viable . they might do i think given the global the moment for the vaccines it's probably a good idea if we have more than one we also have to remember that some pe

i believe we do have some more we can talk to you know simon clark from britain's reading university a microbiologist just on the line hello there sir i hope you can hear me have a chance to say hello to be on the scene july that are to international license see it yet so should we break open the bubbly yet or is it if you're a drinking man i'm sure you're not but is it too soon to do that the fact that russia has now said that it's a registered its 1st vaccine what should ordinary mortals not the people who are being vaccinated daughter people on the street think they want to be safe and get on with their lives so what should they be thinking about this i fear only people on the street conscious of none of that. actually. we see. some of the response that's. junks by by vaccines that doesn't necessarily mean that any of them are going to. protect very well against corona virus infections 90 that's what the next phase is study will treat find out yeah i mean the worry is a courses with one thing to be protected be don't inject yourself or something that could give you even worse prob

and he tested positive again on arrival or though had no symptoms let's get the thoughts now simon clark is a microbiologist from the reading of earth the and we appreciate your time tonight simon how significant is this case t. think. or it's it's actually quite significant because we've had reports previously a few months ago of people seemingly being reinserted with a virus we couldn't really be sure whether in fact me just got some virus hanging around from the initial infection and their need system have cleared it properly they have got rid of all the symptoms but they could have a little bit of virus to anger around although there was just some bad bits of the virus and they were picked up by a diagnostic tests which can be very sensitive what we now know from this study is that service person go reinfected with a different version of the same virus so although you and i are both human beings and we deal with acid much the same way we're different it's the same with these 2 versions of the virus they will still cause disease we're still doing the same way but because we can identi

listen to simon clarke making that promise. the start of september.autumn. so that is the pledge for england, and now it is quite hard to see how the government could move back from that. we have had similar pledges and other parts of the uk, where the school years are sometimes slightly different. but the question remains, the chief medical officer has warned that we are probably upper limit of what we can open safely at the government will face increasing pressure over the next few weeks to show it has the right infrastructure in place to make some pretty big calls over the next few weeks, one of the biggest of which is putting schools back in early september. thank you. the first students in the uk whose exams were cancelled because of coronavirus will find out today what grades they've been awarded. 0ver130,000 young people in scotland are finding out their results in highers and nationals. the marks will be based on estimates from their teachers, but it's thought there could be a rise in the number of appeals. the australian state of victoria has

know despite what they might tell you whether or not that so immunity will last a very long dr simon clarke really good of you to join us live today thank you for being with us. well this like those are local lockdowns the government is pushing to get employees back at the office from today but it seems that many companies here in this country plan to defy the cols and keep staff working remotely more than 60 percent of employers expect some or all of their staff to carry on at home according to the british chambers of commerce among those companies and not west groups rolls royce scottish and southern energy b.p. and of either critics are concerned that city centers will become ghost towns if many continue to work from home while boris johnson gave bosses the power to tell them to return to the office instead of government telling people to work from home we're going to give employers more discretion and ask them to make decisions about how their staff who work safely. meanwhile the government's eat out to help out scheme to tempt the public back to restaurants and cafes and revive the hos

still has of course the highest hope at 19 transmission rates we'll talk to dr simon clarke about this an associate professor in cellular microbiology at the university of reading in the u.k. dr clark thank you for your time can you give me more specifics on this because obesity covers a lot of different issues different illnesses as well what is it was the specific reasons that obesity is leading to these high death rates. well we don't actually have. a mechanism for why obesity makes somebody more susceptible to kind of $98.00 and it does not at all levels ready if you're right base you're more likely to be hospitalized 90 if you get lost that will you're more likely to end up in intensive care and if you end up in intensive care you're more likely to die compared to the always into a piece there are a number of potential metabolic reasons why people who are obese tend to be resistant will have some resistance sit in so the normal physiology is effective and doesn't affect it and that's probably also they have a degree of inflammation and we know that in very many cases it's a receiv

health organization says such recurrences will be extremely rare will scott thorson microbiologist simon clark of britain's reading university says you can indeed be reinfected with different versions of the same virus. it's actually quite significant because we've had reports previous to the a few months ago of people seemingly being reinserted with a virus we couldn't really be sure whether in fact maybe just got some virus hanging around from the initial infection and their need system have played it properly what we now know from this study is that service person go reinfected with a different version of the same virus so all where you and i are both human beings and we do it actually much the same way with a difference and it's the same with these 2 versions of the virus they will still cause disease we're still doing the same way but because we can identify differences between we can exclude the possibility that is just some virus from the 1st infection that's hanging around when this all started there were lots of people going around saying once you have it you can't get it the 2nd time

this is the local government minister simon clarke., day by day, week by week. as i say, we've now made sure that 184,000 people who would otherwise have been out there in society, potentially posing a risk to others, have been advised to self—isolate. that is massive progress. as i say, we reach 80% of people who test positive, over 80%, and over three quarters of their close contacts. so that is impressive, that's great work. we should reflect on that, that genuinely is a massive step forward compared to where we were a few weeks ago. we've continued to make sure that it's resourced, we've continued to learn the lessons as we go in terms of how you can most effectively reach those people who we currently struggle to. and there is always more to learn about the best time of day to try and call these people, the potential for physical follow—up if you can't reach them by phone, all of these things are options the government obviously continues to learn from. but this is not something we've ever had to do before, and the lancet are abso

there any thank you very much indeed for that updates but on air i spoke to a microbiologist dr simon clark he said despite the increased availability and testing wasn't the reason they're behind the rise in infection rates we know from international law ground that it has an effect on suppressing the number of deaths and number of infections below 0 or below what we would otherwise expect so it seems that on a localized. basis and that's been showed it less than that it will work as well it does work to do less that we should remember that are going to manchester though the major incident that seems to be more about getting results is to deal with the situation but that this whole idea of this could really terrified residents could involve. could do at the moment you've got to remember that really all was happening is people are being told not to congregate in their homes but i guess if the numbers don't stabilize and start to decrease pretty soon then that might might be the opportunity or the expectation that there will be further restrictions imposed on population and jamie section reso

our reporter simon clark is at hull's training ground.players now have to quarantine for ten days in accordance with the government guidelines. that takes to the 21st of august. in between times, how large is to be playing castleford at a neutral st helens. as you can see, there is nobody here, nobody to talk to, but earlier, the club chairman spoke to the bbc. he has been on the radio. what it appears is that one of the players's newborn baby had to require hospital treatment and he has them coming on saturday for some treatment with symptoms being sent home. i think it is probably gone from there, into the physio and then into the players. these tests came to light with hull in the dark blue shirts, they lost heavily. as a consequence, salford, who have negative tests have been told that their players involved in that game have two self isolates for 14 days and presumably, the same will apply to the non—infected hull fc player as well. joe root says james anderson is likely to play in the second test against pakistan tomorrow. there was