a former health secretary jeremy hunt vulnerable. emy hunt has said that, this week, a lot has been done by the government to free up supply chains but that there would need to bea chains but that there would need to be a large national effort to make sure that the right equipment got to the right places. yesterday, the prime minister did say there had been... that a massive effort was under way to make sure the nhs is well—equipped and public health england has said that high—level ppe, that is the protective equipment, is available when health ca re equipment, is available when health care workers equipment, is available when health ca re workers are equipment, is available when health care workers are performing high—risk procedures and said it would continue to give staff everything they need. katharine, thank very much. the husband of a british woman who died after testing positive for the coronavirus in bali has spoken for the first time. ken finlayson, from hertfordshire, said his 52—year—old wife, kimberley, underwent two emer

and that is one of the reasons why many people saying including jeremy hunt, who was on the front pageying we are moving too slow. he was questioning whether the lack of social distancing, closing down big events, was sensible. he was saying he would like to see the data on which these decisions were based. and obviously closing schools is one of the decisions, and we know that it is one of the decisions, and we know thatitis is one of the decisions, and we know that it is being briefed that the science behind that decision is twofold. 0ne, science behind that decision is twofold. one, that the nhs, couples 01’ twofold. one, that the nhs, couples or parents who have school—age children are going to struggle if the schools are closed, and we might make a bad situation even worse if those nhs doctors and nurses, many of whom are going to get sick, and we're going to lose a whole other tranche of them because they be looking after their kids. the other problem that they have been briefing is that a lot of parents who simply have to go to work will get granny and grandpa into look after th

jeremy hunt asked about the social distancing advice for healthy people over 70.ngs that might do now that you are asking them not to do going forward? the healthy over 70s? avoid crowded spaces, avoid gatherings, don't go to the club that you normally go to where everyone is sitting around together, reduce travel, try to avoid unnecessary travel. it's quite a big change that is being asked in specific guidance is on the hsc website. just very specifically, what about going to sunday lunch with their family and their grandchildren? yes or no? they shouldn't. what surprised you the most about the situation we are in? i don't think any of this have seen anything like this. i mean, this is a first and notjust a generation, but potentially a first for 100 years, and so none of us have seen this. it's not like in outbreak of something like ebola, where it's a very different type of disease with a very different type of death rate, a very different set of criteria around it. circumstances around it. this is a daily changing unique situation. the committee also questione

the second page quotes jeremy hunt's interview.e will be concerned that we are not moving sooner on social distancing. he has given quite a start stark warning there. if you are back talking about behavioural change, perhaps people are willing to change faster than we thought.” think they are, because i would do it tomorrow, if the thought of doing it tomorrow, if the thought of doing it for three months which is what the government is saying is very worrying. the government because my policy is to delay, not just about behaviour, it's also about the numberof behaviour, it's also about the number of beds behaviour, it's also about the numberof beds in behaviour, it's also about the number of beds in the icu. we have to per thousand people in the country, which is a lot less than nearly every other european country in the world. that is one of the reasons why they are having to delay, delay, delay because we simply don't have the beds. are we going to be able to delay it enough so there is in that crunch in the nhs? yes, exactly. it

the former health secretary, jeremy hunt, says the government's decision not to cancel public eventstbreak is "concerning". he told bbc newsnight that the uk was in a "national emergency" and suggested the government's new approach did not go far enough. i don't want to second—guess what the precise social distancing measures are that we might adopt, because i think, you know, we have to look at the evidence as to what works. but i think it is surprising and concerning that we're not doing any of it at all, when we have just four weeks before we get to the stage that italy is at, and you would have thought that every single thing we do in that four weeks would be designed to slow the spread of people catching the virus. the government's chief scientific adviser, sir patrick vallance said the response to coronavirus needed to be a long—term plan and speaking to bbc breakfast this morning — he defended the decision not to immediately close schools in england. this is not a short—term thing, this is going to go on for weeks. so there are things that will come in due course at the right

three years ago jeremy hunt said always —— almost beg.e must be provided and it wasn't. there are huge questions to answer.|j be provided and it wasn't. there are huge questions to answer. i have friends who have told me they work in the nhs and they have been trying to buy their own kit, as inadequate as it is, so they are doing their best but it is not the right stuff. we will come back to the doctors who died ina we will come back to the doctors who died in a moment. but let's look at the time is an independent, talking about britain faces six months of curbs. was doctorjourney harris who spoke about this earlier today at a press c0 nfe re nce . spoke about this earlier today at a press conference. yes, the deputy chief medical officer level with the country today, which was in stark contrast to ministers who are so used to going out with the express intention of under no circumstances answering a question. that is what happened with michael gove this morning, but the public must be relieved, delighted, surprised even though they have

so the former health secretary jeremy hunt was strategy. r countries are taking, and may be surprised that some other measures haven't been taken, given that the government itself says we are about four weeks behind where italy is now. again, the government would suggest that perhaps we can avoid being in the situation italy is in, if other measures are followed in between. they have given advice for example to vulnerable people not to take cruises, they have told people with symptoms to take seven days off work, but they haven't yet banned mass gatherings. they haven't yet closed schools. and interestingly, the shadow health spokesmanjonathan as hworth the shadow health spokesmanjonathan ashworth was saying he thought perhaps the government was underestimating the willingness of the public to take what he called social distancing measures, and that people were beginning to vote with their feet. they were taking their own actions, beginning to work from home, for example. as we know, the scottish government is banning gatherings of more than

jeremy hunt saying we are on the same tjectory at italy, what's going on there and he is calling forhe lockdown,ind of measures seen in other countries. the question is how far will the prime minister go tonight. he's reluctant to do it. how will they enforce new measures and can thetake the population along t comply with rules? anchor: we're expecting that address to theation in just under half an hour's time. we'll bring that to the viewers on bbc news. when it comes to emergency bill debatedy british parliamentarians, bring us up to date on whee are with that. suporter: these are extraordinary ms that the government will have. bout how longw they should last. the government wand them for two years and the opposition party saying it should be six months and m.p.'s shouldenew it. that is likely to happen. it is to cover all walks of life,articularly the national health service. it's about whether, for example, former cliniananseturn to work, those who are retired, can they return to the work force. about making things easier the pandemic spreads. the big fear is that the national he

jeremy hunt is the chairman of the commons health select committee and the former health secretary —ust ahead of the programme. lam i am concerned we i am concerned we are i am concerned we are not doing more social distancing, because if you look at the data we now have from around the world, there are countries that have appeared to have succeeded in turning back the tide oi'i succeeded in turning back the tide on covid-19 - succeeded in turning back the tide on covid—19 — country like thailand, for example, reporting only 59 cases. taiwan, right next door to china, only 49 cases. in those countries all seem to have done a numberof countries all seem to have done a number of things countries all seem to have done a numberof things, countries all seem to have done a number of things, including contacts tracing which i think we have been a very good at in this country but also moving early to social distancing and protecting particularly elderly people who are the most at risk. professor sir roy anderson has been speaking to the bbc tonight and he says at the moment, cases are doubli

joined some very high profile artists in 2010 in an open letter urging the then-culture minister, jeremy huntnot to go ahead with cuts to the arts. how do you see the situation at the moment in the u.k., 10 years on? >> things are changing rapidly. with our new chancellor and our new prime minister. i think it's difficult to predict what's going to happen under boris' realm. however, there has been an absolute reduction in state funding of education in art, in britain. and along with it, the support of museums that thankfully have remained free, but are still struggling, i think, in a time in which, you know, sponsorship certainly from the oil industry is becoming more and more problematic. and i'm hopeful, i'm hoping that the new chancellor and the new prime minister will be resolute in replacing -- replacing funding that has been removed from our national institutions and from arts generally. anchor: speaking of public versus private commissions, your recent interactive installation, new york clearing, was part of a larger contemporary art initiative piloted by the korean pop band, b.t.s. w

the former health secretary, jeremy hunt, says the government's decision not to cancel public eventscoronavirus outbreak is concerning. he told bbc newsnight that the uk was in a national emergency and suggested the government's new approach did not go far enough. i don't want to second—guess what the precise social distancing measures are that we might adopt, because i think, you know, we have to look at the evidence as to what works. but i think it is surprising and concerning that we're not doing any of it at all, when we have just four weeks before we get to the stage that italy is at, and you would have thought that every single thing we do in that four weeks would be designed to slow the spread of people catching the virus. let's ta ke let's take a look now at the premier league headquarters because we have been expecting over the last few minutes, one of the things we have had our eye on and hope you can get your eye across it now, the door there of the h o your eye across it now, the door there of the h 0 of the premier league. they have had a meeting this morning. expectatio

and jeremy hunt. not together!ts of malicious apps and websites as well as e—mail fishing attacks aimed at stealing personal and financial information. the nca is advising the public to be vigilant. transport for london is bringing all construction work to a stop because of the coronavirus. the crossrail project is temporarily suspended but essential maintenance of the transport network, including the tube, will continue. tfl says it is taking action for safety reasons and to reduce the number of people travelling on the transport network ina bid travelling on the transport network in a bid to limit the spread of the virus. staying with travel, the british transport police have hundreds of officers across the network this morning helping key workers get to work. if you're ne —— journey is not essential, they will urge you to go home. one ongoing travel problem. trains via london bridge have delays of up to 15 minutes. brighton and hove albion have announced a three month payment holiday for season ticket holders an

of calls at the moment for the government at least to try to stretch out to include figures like jeremy hunt, who was the runner-up for prime minister b job. and others around. i think they need to show they are encompassing all kinds of views. at the moment they probably, just in pure political calculation, have too much support to find that attractive themselves. >> fair enough thank you very much. really appreciate you joining us this morning steve with us as well. >>> all right. still ahead on the show, president trump walks back his goal of reopening the u.s. by easter as fears rise over an incoming spike in cases. more after the break >>> ubs announced it will stick to its previously announced dividend for 2019. it comes after the swiss market regulator urged banks to reconsider payout proposal the swiss lender is set to pay out 73 cents per share to its shareholders unicredit, ing and bank of ireland after instruction to preserve cash. the ecb said on friday european banks should avoid pairing shareholders until friday. unicredit deferred share buyback. >>> president trump strengthene

the health secretary, former health secretaryjeremy the health secretary, former health secretary jeremy huntble for when health care workers perform high risk procedures and said it would make sure health workers got everything they need. we heard today from stephen powers, the national medical director at nhs england who told people to stop being selfish when it comes to notjust clearing supermarket shelves, but also to stay at home and listen to government advice and the government is increasing capacity in terms of numbers of ventilators and intensive ca re numbers of ventilators and intensive care beds but said the public needs to do its part. social distancing will be crucial and he said, your action will save someone‘s life, it is as simple and stark as that. interesting research on public attitudes in terms of changing behaviours since measures have been wrapped up. a yougov survey for imperial college london question 2000 people on their attitudes to the social distancing measures and almost three quarters said they change behaviour with almost half believing they will become infecte

jeremy hunt, the former health secretary, raced yesterday.ister insists it is bad for them, it is just a matter of getting it to the right people. but all these questions showing the pressure hospitals are coming under already —— insists it is available for them. certainly in london, but everybody thinks it will be repeated elsewhere. on the question of closing schools, there has been criticism of the government, saying why have you kept schools open when you tell people not to go to pubs and clubs and restaurants? yes, they have said from the very beginning of that you could just tell by the way they said it that they were really relu cta nt to they said it that they were really reluctant to it because of the thousands of workers who will have a problem. and part of the issue is that in normal times, parents who need to go to work and their kids are away sick, they often bring grandparents to help the child care, that just isn't possible grandparents to help the child care, thatjust isn't possible because we know the virus is much more dange

what is worrying people like jeremy hunt is behind them. re yet. we are still only testing about 5000. mr hunt expressing his disquiet this morning. if you look at south korea, which is probably the most successful example of this, they actually had a worse outbreak than us because they had that super spreader in that religious sect. so, they had it worse than us. but they ruthlessly, rigorously traced every single suspected covid—19 case, wherever it is in the country. they then found everybody that person had been in contact with, they take them out of circulation so they can't spread the virus to anyone else. we stopped testing in the community ten days ago, which i think it's very worrying. so i really hope we can get back to that. because the key, if we want to avoid long periods of lockdown, is to have very, very comprehensive testing, so that we actually track down, break the chain of transmission. so, i welcome the ambition that we have from the government. at the moment, the numbers we are testing every haven't really risen from abo

some the questions that have been asked jeremy hunt, the former health secretary has been saying thatthat suggests that people were tired of these measures after a few weeks and thatis these measures after a few weeks and that is something that is been echoed by the shadow health secretary who has been saying that he's said that perhaps people will be more willing than is thought to continue with this sort of action, given the gravity of the situation. people are voting with their feet. people are voting with their feet. people are voting with their feet. people are already taking social distance measures. they have bit that choice themselves. i think the government is underestimating the extent to which the public is willing to make adjustments to their lives so we can all defeat this virus and our loved ones safety first. following the best scientific advice for bringing in measures of the appropriate time and he was also pretty clear earlier that this does not mean that we will get to the stage for more draconian measures are bright and common factors talking about it being pretty

the former health secretary, jeremy hunt, says the government's decision not to cancel public events"concerning". he told bbc newsnight that the uk was in a "national emergency" and suggested the government's new approach did not go far enough. i don't want to second—guess what the precise social distancing measures are that we might adopt, because i think, you know, we have to look at the evidence as to what works. but i think it is surprising and concerning that we're not doing any of it at all, when we have just four weeks before we get to the stage that italy is at, and you would have thought that every single thing we do in that four weeks would be designed to slow the spread of people catching the virus. yesterday the government issued new advice for how to tackle the coronavirus. let's look at what they announced. anyone with mild coronavirus symptoms should now self—isolate for seven days. that means anyone with a high temperature, or a new persistent cough. you shouldn't ring 111 with mild symptoms — you can put yourself in self—isolation. if symptoms worsen or are no better

number of critical care beds and the like and protective equipment also a former health secretary jeremy hunt has been in the media suggesting that britain should have followed germany and south korea in doing mass testing by now the government hitting back. a cabinet member has suggested that the reason that britain has only just reached its initial target of 10000 tests a day around the population is because of the slow reports in all cases by china so they're on the defensive but now they're actually trying to run public communication the messages we may have to get. we don't want to do that right now there's also a debate still going on about which people call it is essential so they should still be going to work staying at home and that what some people are calling a low down but by comparison with other european countries certainly isn't a story ok but with that update on the situation in the u.k. thank you following on from what nadine was saying there are nearly a 1000000000 people around the world under some form of government restrictions lockdowns whatever they've been cold but for

nhs will support that and we have been calling for it, but our big issue now is social care and jeremy hunthat we have in social care because social care will be supporting the very people who are the most vulnerable to viruses, the elderly and also those who are physically disabled. so we will support the government on the package overall, we need them to address these serious issues about how its design. 0verall, it's spending in the long term, the issue versus yes there is a bit of spending going on here and from what we have seen and other experts have commented. around 91 billion extra there are issues about where that is going and we are worried like the environmentalists are on the roads programme attempts to jeopardise our opportunities of tackling climate change in the real problem that a lot of this expenditure is quite late on in this government possibles administration. part of that is because there is a lack of revenue with day—to—day spending that has gone out of the last ten years because of austerity. the country has not been prepared either to tackle the coronavirus to the

jeremy hunt, the former health secretary, really pushing simon stevens about that to ask if he feelsth this and couldn't say for sure. i think that unease is reflected amongst the people working in hospitals. they know this will be an incredibly testing time. we will hear from sir patrick vallance again here today. he has been at the press conferences and will be here again today as well, and he gave some interesting a nswe rs , well, and he gave some interesting answers, pretty honest about what he thinks might come, but stressing this is very much based on modelling. he talked about why those measures are being brought in much quicker than people expected, and it is to suppress the numbers getting the illness so the nhs is not overwhelmed, so people can be treated so that they can recover. he said he thinks the measures being brought in, and the ones brought in at the weekend and afterwards, could mean deaths go below 20,000. that in itself is incredibly shocking. he says that will be a good outcome but it is still horrible, and he knows the kind of pressure that will put on the nh

they feared it could be higher if they continue with the existing policy. jeremy hunt is back and hethe nhs will cope with this crisis. i'm going to ask a few questions to start with and then i will hand over to colleagues. if it is a question about capacity, would that be keith or amanda? any of us. let me start with you, keith. ijust wondered, what is the current number of general adults acute beds that we have? shalli maybe general adults acute beds that we have? shall i maybe start and then we can divvy up other things? as of today, we have 98,000 acute hospital beds across the english national health service and the current... the current occupancy? it has been falling and under 90%. of those, how many critical care or intensive care units? we have 3700 critical care beds for adults in a play at the moment. of italy, as part —— obviously, with the likely influx of patients, we will be taking action across the whole of the nhs to free up across the whole of the nhs to free ”p ”p across the whole of the nhs to free up up to one third of the general acute beds, to noble perhaps 30,

i come back to the point made by the former health secretary jeremy hunt at the weekend, he has saidtly. he says, if you look at south korea, taiwan, where they have allowed some normality of life to resume, they have done so by extensively testing, that means driving test in four people, just like mcdonald's, stop and be tested. testing anyone and eve ryo ne and be tested. testing anyone and everyone who has any symptoms whatsoever and then contact tracing who those people have been in contact with. if you do that, you can isolate where the virus is which means in other parts of the city or society, life can resume as normal. to do that, you need hundreds of thousands of tests. germany appears to be gearing up down that road and it interesting, the death rate in germany is much lower than here even though the infection rate is higher. they plan to test half a million a week, we are on seven, 10,000 a day. we are not at the races. so it's not all bad news. there is better news. we learned this morning that we may get the antibody test, this is the test to establish whether you have b

we've heard jeremy hunt, former health secretary, saying this morning that he is concerned that we arerning that he is concerned that we are not really testing many more cases than we were a week ago, despite the government's promise of ramping up testing. we know for many asian countries, they feel that testing, as endorsed by the world health organization, has been critical to getting on top of the bars. yes, testing is an essential part. one of the essential parts of our response to this. testing has been ramped up, the government has said that, a new testing centre in milton keynes and we have bought a new antibody test in the hopes that will help us. the most important people to be tested are those who are sick and ill, to make sure we have the right diagnosis. and then, as possible, anyone who has symptoms can be tested to make sure that they... that we know whether they have the illness or not. the good prospect here, if we can get it, is this thing that is called the antibody test, and that is a test that tells you whether you have had the infection, not whether you have still

my e—mails my mp today, jeremy hunt, and just got a generics response back.ndemic in the uk is really bad, i've seen the stuff on social media, but we are now stuck in a foreign country, unemployed, going to lose my house soon, so all we want to do is get home. they really appreciate you talking to us in really difficult circumstances. good luck to you. ella chandler, who was in new zealand. we are getting a lot of questions on. by looked at the five most popular after last night's announcement. they will run you through some of these. how was police enforcement going to work? that is one of the popular ones. the definition of a shop selling essential goods. sports director saying they will stay open. how do you get money if you can't go to the bank and can't go online? questions about split and separated families with children working —— living with one parent and visiting the other. if your car has broken down and you need an mot, can you go through that? radical questions about people buying and selling houses. you haven't exchanged can they go through and

particularly on testing, where we heard from the former health secretary jeremy testing, where we heard from the former health secretaryjeremy huntfurther forward than we were last week when the world health organization told us to test, test and test. he said we are still only testing around 5000 cases a day. one protective equipment we heard this lunchtime from the mp who represents northwick park hospital, the hospital in london at the centre of the coronavirus crisis where they recently of the coronavirus crisis where they rece ntly ha d of the coronavirus crisis where they recently had to close their intensive care unit, saying even they do not have sufficient supplies of protective equipment. jeremy corbyn saying he had been told of nursing staff having to buy facemasks from diy shops. the health secretary has said they are in negotiations to buy millions more testing kits, we have got the army involved to supply the protective equipment. but i really sense the view amongst many mps is that words do now need to be turned into action and this cannot be allowed to continue if we are going to get on top of this crisis. norman,

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