comes to mind the health minister named dean doris' who tested positive for covert 19 this month now that brings me on to the case of testing which the leader of the opposition jeremy copeland grilled to the prime minister over who said in response that it's the government's top priority. over the past few weeks i've asked the prime minister many times what action has been taken to ensure testing is been prioritized and i received assurances that everything that could was being done yet mr speaker leaked emails shows it was just 3 days ago that the prime minister wrote to u.k. research institutes to ask for help saying there was no testing machines available to buy why wasn't this done weeks ago if not months ago when the government was 1st warned about the threat of a global pandemic and what does what action is now being taken to get testing machines is quite right that testing is vital to our success in beating the corona virus and as the health secretary has explained many times we are massively increasing our testing campaign going up from 521-022-5008 day and you know it's a di

necessarily mean you'll get it worse and actually there was a rather nice article by my minister and the dean doris who actually explained when she had grown a virus her mother who caught it from her had it normally so it's not a necessary fact that older people will necessarily have it worse so you might say why with a disease where we have such small numbers of the moment and which the great majority people are going to recover from and most of them will have a mild or or non non notice or disease would we want to do anything at all and the reason is this excel aeration an overall aim and our single aim is to reduce death rates and the numbers of people who might die as a result of this but i think it's important to recognize and this does and the reason i'm explaining this is so people understand the logic of what we're doing that there are broadly 3 groups of death deaths and other impacts on health we need to consider there are the direct deaths which are caused by the coronavirus disease itself with good medical care tragically a few people the great majority of them in good health but not ne

. a health minister has become the 1st british politician to test positive for corona virus the dean doris' is now in isolation it's reported she met hundreds of people in parliament last week and attended an event with prime minister abbas johnson at his residence meanwhile the slowdown of cases continues in china who by province the epicenter of the outbreak reporting just 13 new cases there as well and jordan has more now on the situation in new york state. new a shell is one of the many suburbs just outside new york city and many of the people who live there or work or go to school in cite new york city it also happens to be the epicenter at least here on the east coast of the united states of the corona virus outbreak at least 100 cases have been diagnosed as of tuesday it's very likely that number is going to go up on wednesday when the reporters next meet with the governor andrew cuomo mr cuomo declared on tuesday that there would now be a 14 day period where basically people who live in a 3 columns 3 square kilometer area of new rochelle will not be able to go to massive gathering