chief medical officer for england professor chris whitty said the news earlier.io, health reporter nicola morrison. very scant detail to go on, do we know much more beyond that? you are quite right, limited information at this time as the news has just broken. we know they are from the same family, but we don't know where in england they are or where they entered. as we have known from last week, the last flight from wuhan last wednesday, quarantine measures we re last wednesday, quarantine measures were not put in place yet. we would presume that is where they have entered the uk. as of today, the flight entered the uk. as of today, the flight that runs at 1230 pm today, quarantine measures are in place —— lands. there will be a two hour window before the passengers disembark the aircraft well there will be preliminary checks. —— where there will be. i spoke to a hot ci’oss there will be. i spoke to a hot cross bun at last week who said nine out of ten of the people who came into the country before the changes we re into the country before the changes were brough

the chief medical officer professor chris whitty said... a big development in the story. brize norton — they'll spend two weeks in quarantine at a nhs hospital in the north west the death toll stands at 213, with nearly 10,000 people infected. and last night the world health organization declared the virus a global emergency. our health editor hugh pym has been speaking to the chief medical officer professor chris whitty. so, as! so, as i announced earlier on this morning, there were two cases from the same family, who were identified overnight. and they have now been transferred to a high consequence infection unit, that is a very secure infectious disease specialist unit in newcastle. and what sort of treatment will they be getting, how are staff at the hospital protected, as it were? obviously i'm not going to go into any patient details at all, either in terms of their particular situation or their biographical details. but i can say that this could turn out to be, for any individual who has a disease of this kind, it could well turn out to bea this kind, it could wel

we have had a statement earlier from the chief medical officer, professor chris whitty.ecialist —— are receiving specialist care. we are using tried and tested procedures to prevent the further spread of the virus. professor whitty also saying that the nhs is extremely well prepared and used to managing infections. we are working rapidly to identify any contact the patients had to prevent further spread. we have been preparing for uk cases of this coronavirus, this new strain of it. we have robust infection—control measures in place respond immediately. so, that is the situation with those two members of the family who have been taken to hospital in newcastle. caroline davies, at brize norton, we are awaiting the moment when these passengers will get off this plane after a very long flight, and of course, a number of days in which they have been more or less holed up in their flats and apartments in wuhan, because they were very worried about contracting coronavirus. you can imagine, this has been an almost surreal experience for those on that flight. they left wuhan at

the chief medical officer for england chris whitty met with the government's cobra emergency committeeeople that the uk is well prepared if a case was to be confirmed. we think that there is a fair chance we may get some cases over time. of course, this depends on whether this continues over a long time or whether this turns out to be something which is brought under control relatively quickly by the considerable efforts of the chinese government. i think we should definitely see this as a marathon, not a sprint and we need to have our entire response based on that principle. that is the chief medical officerfor england. principle. that is the chief medical officer for england. we are going to talk to someone who is living and working in wuhan. mike beharrell is an ice hockey team coach working with children in wuhan. he moved to the city in april last year. thank you so much for talking to us. how are you doing and what are you doing with your time? actuallyjust spending some time in the apartment and pretty much just practising spending some time in the apartment and pretty muchjust

chief medical officer chris whitty speaking there. the questions people have been sending in rvs. regardless of human to human transmission, are there other ways of spreading the coronavirus? thatis that is an excellent question. at this time, we don't really know how much where it came from. it is believed that the virus came from an animal virus and jumped into humans, so animal virus and jumped into humans, so there is still the potential for these wild animals to be exceeding cases. in addition to the potential for the virus to be spread any human any human to human transmission, so really, it only takes one sick person to get on the aeroplane to send that virus throughout the globe. so i think the best place for spread right now is spread via sick people and their movement around china or elsewhere. yes, and there isa china or elsewhere. yes, and there is a lot of that, as we know. tulip is a lot of that, as we know. tulip is asking how do i know i have it? one of the things we have found from wuhan in the last couple of weeks is if you haven‘t been there all been hanging out

but earlier today, the chief medical officer chris whitty who is directing the government in terms ofutious measure. they are taking this precaution just because of the possibility that there might be presymptomatic transmission, which is what it's called. but the government isn't at all sure at the moment if that is definitely the case and, if it were to be the case, the chief medical officer says that he thinks that it is a very, very low risk of that kind of presymptomatic transmission. sophie hutchence in there with that report. the firms that were involved in refurbishing grenfell tower before the fire which killed 72 people, have been accused of failing to admit any responsibility for the blaze. the claims were made at the public inquiry into the disaster which reopened today, focusing on why the building ended up being covered in combustible cladding. tom symonds has more details. the grenfell inquiry is scrutinising this tragedy. the grenfell families are scrutinising the inquiry. a panel member resigned at the weekend because of concerns about a conflict—of—interest. so, the

officer she -- chris whitty. they provided very little information about these individuals.lity in newcastle in the u.k. they are two members of the same family and now they are working on tracing people who may have been in contact with them, to obviously lynn packed any -- limit any spread of this pathogen. yet know howt -- many people they have been in contact with, so they are scrambling. tom: did they say how they will handle the airports forward? james: they did not get into that too much, but they referred to a flight coming into the u.k., i believe it is today, from wuhan. all of the passengers who boarded that flight were well when they boarded. they are taking a lot of action to meet them when they arrive, ask them to limit this spreading beyond these two cases. they did say there are beliefs in recent days and weeks that new cases are not unexpected, and it is really probably a matter of time before the u.k. has joined germany and other countries around the world in seeing infections. much,ames, thank you so with a story forward in the united kingdom on this virus

our approach at all times has been guided by the advice of the chief medical officer professor chris whittycity and all passengers on direct flights from china will receive information on what to do if they fall ill. a nhs hospital trust has apologised for preventable baby deaths after a bbc investigation discovered at least seven deaths at the east kent nhs foundation trust since 2016. the trust apologised to the parents and said it has not always provided the right standard of care for every woman and baby. our social affairs correspondent michael buchanan reports. archie powell was born last february, a twin brother to evelyn but the maternity staff failed to spot that he had group b strep, a potentially serious infection. it took too long to treat him and he died aged four days. before they were born, we got a double pram and everything, two of everything and stuff and then he come home and he is only one. archie was born at this hospital in margate. it's run by the east kent hospital trust and their investigation has uncovered at least seven preventable deaths in recent years due to ma

our health editor hugh pym has been speaking to the chief medical officer professor chris whitty aboutnsferred to a high consequence infection unit, that is a very secure infectious disease specialist unit in newcastle. and what sort of treatment will they be getting, how are staff at the hospital protected, as it were? how are staff at the hospital protected, how does it work? obviously i'm not going to go into any patient details at all, either in terms of their particular situation or their biographical details. but what i can say that this could turn out to be, for any individual who has a disease of this kind, it could well turn out to be a relatively minor disease, because we know there is a 2% mortality rate, 2% of people die meaning 98% of people get better based on current information and it is still not absolutely certain that that looks as if it is the number. there is a high chance people get better and lots of people end up with a relatively minor disease. obviously some people go on to get a severe disease. we know this from the cases that are being reported from china. t