jagdeesh singh dhaliwal thank you very much for your time. thank you very much.o—ordinator has told the bbc that any frontline worker with coronavirus symptoms should now be able to get a test for the disease. professorjohn newton said 27 drive—in testing centres were operating across the uk, and more were planned. government scientists are also rolling out workplace testing. he told the bbc‘s health editor hugh pym that he was confident the uk now had the laboratory capacity it needed. but he would not be drawn on whether the government would meet its target of 100,000 tests per day by the end of april. what we have done is build an end—to—end testing service. mainly to support testing for front line workers, and there is a big lab system behind us. these drive—in the centres is one way in which we are getting people tested, but there are other routes, where we can get swabs to people rather than new people to the swabs. so how widespread is the system in england, and how widespread do you want it to be? there has been a huge effort to stand up these sort of cen

jagdeesh singh dhaliwal is a gp in melbourne in australia, who trained with mr riyat at medical school is a stark contrast in covid repsonse between the uk school in leicester. he says there is a stark contrast in covid repsonse between the uk and australia. i'm ina i'm in a position to contrast my own country with a new country australia. the contrast there is stark. college back in uk tell me how ppe isn't available, we do have ppe here in australia. mass testing isn't really happening in the uk. here i am being told that i can test for cove aid for any patient i'm worried about. and some of these things i think do make me angry to be honest. because i do think some steps could have been put into place earlier back home in the uk. and may well have cut the risk some of the other colleagues in terms of covert. you don't send your troops onto the battlefield unarmed. you just don't do that. doesn't matter how brave they are. you don't sell people out if they don't have equipment they need. we do delete i don't do that to our soldiers why would we do that to our soldiers why would we do

jagdeesh singh dhaliwal is a gp in melbourne in australia, who trained with mr riyat at medical school there is a stark contrast in covid repsonse between the uk and australia. i'm in a position to be able to compare and contrast what's happening in my home country, the uk, with my new country, australia. and the contrast is fairly stark. colleagues back in the uk tell me how ppe isn't available. we do have ppe here in australia. mass testing isn't really happening in the uk. here i'm being told that i can test for covid, you know, for any patient i'm worried about. and some of these things do make me angry, to be honest, because i do think that some steps could have been put into place earlier back home in the uk that may well have cut the risk for some of my other colleagues, in terms of covid. you don't send your troops out to the battlefield unarmed, you just don't do that. it doesn't matter how brave they are, you don't send people out if they don't have the equipment they need. we ot do that with our soldiers, why would we do that with our health care professionals? there have al

jagdeesh singh dhaliwal is a gp in melbourne in australia, who trained with mr riyat at medical schoole up with the news this morning when other friends and colleagues from the uk had messaged me, and it has just been a day of deep, deep sorrow and complete shock. particularly for manjeet, he was always such a lively, life and soul character and to think that he is no longer with us is galling. and the huge loss to the nhs to have an experienced ed consultant of this calibre not working in the system any more. many people talking about the calibre of this man, that phrase, the father of the current emergency department, that is quite an accolade. well, we have all been talking today about how we were all 18—year—old medical students, and he was the adult in the room at the time, he was always the person you could go to for sensible advice, when we would still be quite naive and immature 18—year—olds so he always possessed that real white we will break out of that and go to downing street for the daily briefing. iamjoined by briefing. i am joined by professor van—tam and by professorjoh