three new large laboratories, including this one at milton keynes, have been set up to process testsfficial leading the programme told a commons committee they would significantly boost capacity. we are at the stage now where those labs have been through their setup phase, the testing phase, and they are starting to roll out testing. so we are about to see their capacity increase exponentially. so what about antibody tests based on blood samples? they show whether someone has had the virus in the past and is immune. officials said samples from overseas companies had been paid for but they were not reliable. we ordered the tests on the basis of the minimum volumes needed to get samples so we could test them and now we will be working with companies to cancel the orders and get our money back where possible. testing in the uk has gone up tojust under 13,000 people per day. the government target is on the number of tests, now about 111,700 per day, as people are sometimes tested twice. that is still way short of the 100,000 per day target in three weeks‘ time. chintal is an occupational

as a consultant in intensive care medicine at milton keynes university hospital, drjamie strachan is see you later on! bye... bye. just setting off to work. got back about 11 last night. started to see a rapid influx of very unwell people. so, it‘s something we were prepared for. but it‘s still such a strange and unusual way the world is going. we have got a really full unit, and a really full hospital, so we‘re going to get on and make some decisions for the day and plans for people. that was the start of a long day, dealing with some of the very sickest patients. none of them are allowed any visitors. their families can only hope to see them again if they recover. you know, there‘s lots of talk about equipment and ventilators and masks and these things but, really, the way we will get through this is with people that are doing theirjob. jamie had monday off with his family, but was back at work early yesterday. about a third of the patients here are in a prone position, and that‘s where we lie people on their front when they‘re receiving ventilation and it helps with the oxygen lev

opened our first of over three white house mega la bs first of over three white house mega labs in milton keynesmore on in cheshire and astrazeneca and gsk, two of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world are opening another in cambridge and i want to thank the team and all the volu nteers thank the team and all the volunteers who are working night and day to make this happen. i want to address what we are doing to make sure we have enough ppe, protective equipment and to make sure that it gets to the right people. the goal i have set is that everyone working in a critical role must get the ppe that they need. nhs and care staff protect us every day while we are safe at home, they go off to work to ca re safe at home, they go off to work to care for us. we owe it to the to get them to kit they need to protect themselves. i want to be frank about themselves. i want to be frank about the challenges our plan is designed to overcome. first, there is a huge international demand for ppe and a global squeeze on supplies. compounding this some countries have placed export bans and other restric

in addition, we have the three new lighthouse labs which are all now on stream, the ones in milton keynes glasgow. each of these labs will be able to process tens of thousands of tests per day and we are introducing automation into those processes, which really ramps up the capacity. we have also entered into partnerships with leading labs in industry and academia in addition to these other labs i have mentioned and this will help increase volume further. we are currently on track to reach 100,000 tests per day as planned and in fact we are somewhat ahead of where we thought we would be at this stage. a huge amount of work has gone into this across the board and i want to take this opportunity to thank everybody involved. next we are increasing access to testing so if i could have the next slide, please? you can see from the map we already have more than 30 drive—through centres and these are increasing to around 48. at the secretary of state mentioned, home testing options are also now in place and we will increase this further. we also want to use an approach we call the satellite appro

we've completed the construction of three lighthouse labs in milton keynes, glasgow and cheshire.d begin testing. and as we have reached the peak and as we bring the number of new cases down, so we will introduce contact tracing at large scale. he said the vaccine trial with humans would start on thursday, and social distancing was making a difference. but labour'sjonathan ashworth had serious concerns. it looks like we are heading to one of the worst death rates in europe. the government have been careful to always say, "we're following scientific advice." could the secretary of state tell us what the explanation is from the government's scientists as to why our death rate seems so poor compared to, for example, germany? he asked the question about the relative international comparisons on the number of deaths. of course, this needs to be done scientifically, taking into account the size of the populations of different countries. and there's an important analysis that we're constantly doing of why the death rates of proportion to the population in germany is lower — it is somethi

two lab workers in milton keynes. from a supermarket in chorley to downing street.

three mega labs have been created in milton keynes, glasgow and cheshire, to process the tests.y the private sector. so, has the 100,000—a—day target to be met? target been met? we won't know for a few days, as tests need to be processed. the latest figures showjust over 50,000 tests being carried out, although there is capacity for many more. eligibility for testing has also been expanded this week. now, anyone who needs to leave home to work should be able to get tested, all over 65s, hospital patients and care home staff and residents, even if they don't have symptoms. it is one step away from whole population testing. that will be crucial to help us gradually move out of lockdown, as part of the test, trace and track strategy to contain local outbreaks. when that happens, the uk will finally have achieved what the world health organization recommended. our health correspondent nick triggle. the government in germany says it won't consider any further relaxation of its lockdown until at least tenth may. last week, some small shops were allowed to open, but the authorities say

this one in milton keynes has been created at an existing research centre. they would be part of a national virus testing effort. equipment was lent by laboratories all round the country and brought here by the army, the navy and even in cabs. testing started a few days later. soon they'll move up to a 24/7 operation. at the moment, the manual process will support many thousands of samples per day, and as the automation develops, that will rapidly escalate into tens of thousands of samples per day. those tens of thousands will be part of the move towards the government target, with volunteers like beth, a research student, helping out. it's really nice. it's really rewarding to be able to contribute, i've got a lot of friends in the front line and health care professionals and to be able to help them out in a way is good. it is another part of the drive to escalate testing capacity which will be crucial if there is a second spike in cases late in the year. whether it is enough to hit the government targets this month is another matter. the un's world food pr

there was a report in the guardian today from someone working in the testing centre at milton keynesing like capacity because the samples are not getting through. but clearly there's a whole range of logistic issues i'm getting people to be tested getting the test to the testing centres and so on. it's not clear what the problem is but there's clearly a problem from these fobs that should be tested are not getting to the people who can do them. with your experience i'm keen to understand what we mean by testing, because we say we need to up testing and said almost endlessly. i wonder if it needs to be intelligent testing, because today we heard in the committee briefing that we should really go into mass testing but is that going to solve the problem, or should we be reverting to intelligent testing of certain sectors of society? we need a combination. one of the pillars of the secretary of state announced was an exercise with there will be testing using the antibody test that are done in the laboratory and not the hand—held one. three and a half thousand people to get an idea of the

andy gower in milton keynes has three kids...t next to you, princess. ..and stage three cancer. his treatment is on hold, although the nhs is meant to be opening up. coronavirus has taken away the resources, and if i don't get the operation, it means that i might die. i don't see why the nhs saving my life is less important than somebody with coronavirus. the rate of infection may be fading for now, but a disease that emerged thousands of miles away is, in one way or another, for each of us, already close to home. 0ur politial editor laura kuenssberg is at westminster. a glimmer of hope of the prime minister but a cautious one. the prime minister has said the virus has passed its most aggressive phase in this country for now but it is not the end of this story because of course most immediately there are people falling ill still and there are families worried tonight about relatives who may be in hospital with the virus, so people who are just receiving news of losing a loved one, of course, and people whose lives have been chang

we've completed the construction of three lighthouse labs in milton keynes, glasgow and cheshire.e and begin testing. and as we have reached the peak and as we bring the number of new cases down, so we will introduce contact tracing at large scale. he said a vaccine trial on humans would start on thursday, and social distancing was making a difference. but labour'sjonathan ashworth had serious concerns. it looks like we are heading to one of the worst death rates in europe. the government have been careful to always say, "we're following scientific advice." could the secretary of state tell us what the explanation is from the government's scientists as to why our death rate seems so poor compared to, for example, germany? he asked the question about the relative international comparisons on the number of deaths. of course, this needs to be done scientifically, taking into account the size of the populations of different countries. and there's an important analysis that we're constantly doing of why the death rates of proportion to the population in germany is lower — it is somethi

death toll doubling every 3 days makeshift morgues are being built like this one on an ice rink in milton keynes to meet those group. meanwhile frontline health care workers continue to make hurried preparations where personal protection equipment is in short supply as it widely is they're fashioning solutions from hardware shops even resorting to seaside snorkels and schools science class goggles the government insists millions of items are in the delivery pipeline but in many places they aren't arriving quickly enough i am now setting the goal of $100000.00 tests per day by the end of this month that is the goal and i am determined that we will get that. testing is another crucial part of the u.k. government's response that for now is wanting this is a drive through testing center in an ikea car park in north west london it's one of 5 across the country finally allowing frontline health care staff to get a test for covert 19 if they're self isolating at home with symptoms and find out whether they've actually got the disease and if they haven't to allow them to get back to work quickly we spok

from the 0aklands nursing home in hove to castletroy in milton keynes, and onto st ives lodge, on thef london, where six residents have died. five of them died from covid—19. 0fficialfigures have lagged behind the sad realities of those losses, but today's announcement suggesting a doubling of deaths in england in five days underlines the pace of what's been happening. at st ives, they hope they have now managed to fight off the virus. we have no patients, no residents with it and all of our staff have been tested since last week. and we still have a couple who are going to be tested over the next couple of days. but it is just really frightening, the numbers mounting up. the care regulator in england has altered the way it collects information about people who've died in residential and nursing homes. since april the 10th, it's asked if the death is linked to confirmed or suspected coronavirus. its preliminary findings suggest about 1,000 people could have died in homes in five days. she was lovely, my mum. she was, erm... she had the starts of dementia, but she wasn't severely disab

hospital to the airambulance station in glasgow, from the streets of belfast to laboratory workers in milton keyneser people who are no longer with us because they are the innocent, they came to work to do a good job, to care.

this one in milton keynes has been created at an existing research centre.saying they would be part of a national virus testing effort. equipment was lent by laboratories all round the country and brought here by the army, the navy and even in cabs. testing started a few days later. soon they'll move up to a 24/7 operation. at the moment, the manual process will support many thousands of samples per day, and as the automation develops, that will rapidly escalate into tens of thousands of samples per day. those tens of thousands will be part of the move towards the government target, with volunteers like beth, a research student, helping out. it's really nice. it's really rewarding to be able to contribute, i've got a lot of friends in the front line and health care professionals and to be able to help them out in a way is good. it is another part of the drive to escalate testing capacity which will be crucial if there is a second spike in cases late in the year. whether it is enough to hit the government targets this month is another matter. hugh joins me no

from the streets of belfast... to laboratory workers in milton keynes.supermarket in chorley... to downing street — those who have died were remembered. i think it's important for us to remember people who are no longer with us because they are the innocent, they came to work to do a good job, to care. we'll bring you more images of the moment we remembered those we've lost. also this lunchtime... new figures show that covid—19 related deaths in care homes in england and wales trebled in the space of three weeks — while deaths in hospitals are beginning to fall scotland's first minister recommends wearing face coverings — but only in certain circumstances pressure to resume planned operations — including cancer treatments and heart procedures — which were put on hold as the nhs focussed on coronavirus. back in business — hundreds of thousands return to work in new zealand — as the country begins to relax its month—long lockdown and the british firm which says it's on the brink of mass—producing simple tests for the virus, that we could all — potentially

this one in milton keynes has been created at an existing research centre.s testing effort. equipment was lent by laboratories all round the country and brought here by the army, the navy and even in cabs. testing started a few days later. soon they'll move up to a 24/7 operation. at the moment, the manual process will support many thousands of samples per day, and as the automation develops, that will rapidly escalate into tens of thousands of samples per day. those tens of thousands will be part of the move towards the government target, with volunteers like beth, a research student, helping out. it's really nice. it's really rewarding to be able to contribute, i've got a lot of friends in the front line and health care professionals and to be able to help them out in a way is good. it is another part of the drive to escalate testing capacity which will be crucial if there is a second spike in cases late in the year. whether it is enough to hit the government targets this month is another matter. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: we'll bring you the

from the 0aklands nursing home in hove to kassel toy in milton keynes, and on to st ives lodge on the. 0fficial figures have lagged behind this reality. today's announcement suggesting a doubling of deaths in england in five days underlines the pace of what has been happening. it adds urgency to the ongoing calls for more help and more protective equipment. we need to get the testing across the board in social ca re testing across the board in social care facilities across the country. and we need to be pursuing the preventative agenda with much more vigour than we have been. the care regulator in england has altered the way it collects information about people who have died in residential and nursing homes. since april the 10th, it has asked if the death is linked to confirmed or suspected coronavirus. its preliminary findings suggest about 1,000 people could have died in homes in five days. she was lovely, my mum. she was, she had the start of dementia, but she wasn't severely disabled with that. christine mullin was moved from her care home to hospital where she died. her death wil

the swabs are brought here to one of three so—called mega labs, this one in milton keynes has been created a call in late march saying they would be part of a national virus testing effort, equipment was meant by laboratories over the country and brought here by the army, the navy and even in taxis. testing started a few days later and soon will move up to 20 47 operation. at the moment the manual process will support many thousands of samples per day and as the automation develops that will rapidly escalate into tens of thousands of samples per day. those tens of thousands will be part of the move towards the government target with volunteers like beth, a research student, helping out. target with volunteers like beth, a research student, helping outm target with volunteers like beth, a research student, helping out. it is when rewarding to be able to contribute, i have a lot of friends in the front line and health care professionals and to be able to help them out in a way is good. home testing has started this week, allowing key workers to get their own swab samples and send them for an

death toll doubling every 3 days makeshift morgues are being built like this one on an ice rink in milton keynes to meet those groom demands meanwhile frontline health care workers continue to make hurried preparations where personal protection equipment is in short supply as it widely is there fashioning solutions from hardware shops even resorting to seaside snorkels and schools science class goggles the government insists millions of items are in the delivery pipeline but in many places they aren't arriving quickly enough i am now setting the goal of $100000.00 tests per day by the end of this month that is the goal and i am determined that we will get that. testing is another crucial part of the u.k. government's response that for now is wanting this is a drive through testing center in an ikea car park in north west london it's one of 5 across the country finally allowing frontline health care staff to get a test for covert 19 if they're self isolating at home with symptoms and find out whether they've actually got the disease and if they haven't to allow them to get back to work quickly we

drive—through tests being done in london and the surrounding area, a makeshift lab has been set up in milton keynesifferent parts of the uk to process what will be a huge of tests but still a tall order by the government's own admission to get this done by the end of april. labour says more detail needs to be given about the process to restore public confidence in the government's approach. public confidence in the government's approachlj public confidence in the government's approach. i am not assuming any come on stream... that is pillar three, as we call it, in order to hit the hundred thousand target. we will have, we have already 3500 a week of antibody tests at porton down, and they are the top quality, the best tests in the world. we are using those for research purposes to understand how much of the population has had coronavirus. this is one of the great unknown questions. but that is obviously very small numbers, 500 or so a day. significant that the government is talking about antibody tests already being used at those public health england labs in porton down to give an idea of the scal

likewise a new testing centre at milton keynes is not yet fully operational. 0ne at milton keynes ise interesting thing we did get from the prime minister in his video, it's clear the government hope in terms of tackling the virus rests not with the current coronavirus test but with the separate proposed antibody test which will establish whether people have immunity from the virus. it's not up and running yet, it's in the development stage, but the government has ordered 3.5 million of those tests and the hope is that will enable ministers to establish whether people have built up an immunity to the virus and can, if you like, be released from the lockdown. and it is that which the government believe could provide a way out of this crisis, and it's that which they are looking to mass test. it doesn't get you out of the current situation, where we know around a quarter of doctors currently have to stay away from work and self—isolate. it doesn't help in identifying people who have got coronavirus, so that the is of no use now but down the road the government believe that could be an

there was a report in the guardian today from someone working in the testing centre at milton keynesbecause the samples are not getting through. but clearly there's a whole range of logistic issues i'm getting people to be tested getting the test to the testing centres and so on. it's not clear what the problem is but there's clearly a problem from these fobs that should be tested are not getting to the people who can do them. with your experience i'm keen to understand what we mean by testing, because we say we need to up testing, because we say we need to up testing and said almost endlessly. i wonder if it needs to be intelligent testing, because today we heard in the committee briefing that we should really go into mass testing but is that going to solve the problem, or should we be reverting to intelligent testing of certain sectors of society? we need a combination. 0ne of certain sectors of society? we need a combination. one of the pillars of the secretary of state announced was an exercise with there will be testing using the antibody test that are done in the laboratory and

delivered within the mass testing centres which have been built around the country, including in milton keyneslities they are using. we now seem to have evolved two different testing streams, one within the nhs laboratories and one within the nhs laboratories and one within these mass testing centres and they are running along very different lines with little communication between the two and thatis communication between the two and that is also i think a concern to us that is also i think a concern to us that we should be working together on this. we are doing the same testing, the same groups of people so we should be working together to pool resources. what we're doing at the moment is we seem to be competing for resources, so nhs labs‘ priority is always to test ill patients, testing for diplomatic patients, testing for diplomatic patients, that is our priority, and any capacity beyond that, we will test staff groups. whereas the mass testing centres are largely for staff grou ps testing centres are largely for staff groups within the nhs. but we need to start working together and to invol

the swabs are brought here to one of three so—called mega labs, this one in milton keynes has been createdng they would be part ofa national virus testing effort, equipment was meant by laboratories over the country and brought here by the army, the navy and even in taxis. testing started a few days later and soon will move up to 20 47 operation. -- 24/7. at the moment the manual process will support many thousands of samples per day and as the automation develops that will rapidly escalate into tens of thousands of samples per day. those tens of thousands will be part of the move towards the government target with volunteers like beth, a research student, helping out. it is when rewarding to be able to contribute, i have a lot of friends in the front line and health care professionals and to be able to help them out in a way is good. home testing has started this week, allowing key workers to get their own swab samples and send them for analysis. it is another part of the drive to escalate testing capacity which will be crucial if there is a second spike in cases late in the year. whether

three new large laboratories, including this one here at milton keynes, have been set up to process testsramme told a commons committee they would significantly boost capacity. we are at the stage now where those labs have been through the set—up and the testing phase and are starting to roll out testing, so we are back to see their capacity increase exponentially. testing in the uk has gone up to just under 13,000 people a day, the government target is on the number of tests — now about 111,700 a day. people are sometimes tested twice. still short of the 100,000 a day target in a few weeks' time. this occupational therapist who visits patients in their home now has the virus. she told me why testing for nhs front line staff is so important. it is an anxious time for everybody, everybody would love to have testing done. i myself would have ideally liked to have had testing done a few weeks ago because it is a bit like, well, are we being exposed, are we being carriers? because this is seven to 1a days. with more covid—19 patients expected, a new temporary hospital at the manchester centra

there's a report in the guardian today from someone who is working in the centre of milton keynes sayinganything like capacity because the samples are not getting through and clearly, there are another range of logistic issues from getting people to be tested, getting the test of the centres and so on. getting the test of the centres and so on. it is not clear what the problem is but there is a problem that these swabs that should be tested or not getting to the people who can do them. will be made by the testing is that vinita testing and we seem to be aimless and it needs to be intelligent testing because today we heard in the committee briefing that we should really be going to mass testing but is to solve the problem or should we really be to intelligent testing of certain sectors of society? we need a combination. the secretary of state announced a few weeks ago that an exercise where they will be testing using the antibody tests that are done in a laboratory and other hand—held ones, people will getan other hand—held ones, people will get an idea of the prevalence of it is very imp

three mega labs have been created in milton keynes, glasgow and cheshire, to process the tests.so, has the 100,000—a—day target been met? we won't know for a few days, as tests need to be processed. the latest figures showjust over 50,000 tests being carried out, although there is capacity for many more. eligibility for testing has also been expanded this week. now, anyone who needs to leave home to work should be able to get tested, all over 65s, hospital patients and care home staff and residents, even if they don't have symptoms. it is one step away from whole population testing. that will be crucial to help us gradually move out of lockdown, as part of the test, trace and track strategy to contain local outbreaks. when that happens, the uk will finally have achieved what the world health organization recommended. 0ur health correspondent nick triggle. more on this now with dr andrew preston, from the university of bath who is a researcher in infectious diseases. hello, good afternoon to you. good afternoon. as we hello, good afternoon to you. good afternoon. as we are hello,

we have completed the construction of three la bs completed the construction of three labs in milton keynesin clinical safety and digital ethics, so we can get all of this right. the more people who sign up this right. the more people who sign upfor this right. the more people who sign up for this new app when it goes live, the better informed our response will be and the better we can therefore protect the nhs. fourth, we need to make sure the best possible, we make the best possible use of science and research. to pursue the vaccines and treatment that are essential to defeat the virus once and for all. here, the uk is at the forefront of the global effort, we have put more effort into the global effort to search for a vaccine than any other country. yesterday i announced over £40 million of funding from the two most promising uk projects, imperial and oxford. the vaccine for this oxford project will be trialled in people from tomorrow. i'm sure the whole house will agree this is a very promising development. i will repeat what i said yesterday which is that in normal times, reaching this

that's why we have got the hubs being developed, in milton keynes, so we can get rapid testing throughngoing and it is absolutely critical. we are getting absolutely critical. we are getting a lot of questions as i'm sure you are aware from our audience this morning. a couple of thoughts to pick up on, this is from louise. how many people end up on ventilators and how many make a full recovery? from ian, he says can you ask how many people have had to go into hospital with coronavirus and have recovered ? hospital with coronavirus and have recovered? the vast majority of people with coronavirus clearly get a mild illness, and recover without ever needing hospital treatment. there is a proportion of people who do need hospital treatment, a relatively low proportion in the figure is around 5% or so, but maybe, i haven't got a precise figure for that, but the issue for us is that the more vulnerable people are those who are older and those with existing conditions, particularly those that might affect the immune system or the respiratory system, those other people who are particularly vul

in addition, we have the three new lighthouse labs which are all now on stream, the ones in milton keynestests per day and we are introducing automation into those processes, which really ramps up the capacity. we have also entered into partnerships with leading labs in industry and academia in addition to these other labs i have mentioned and this will help increase volume further. we are currently on track to reach 100,000 tests per day as planned and in fact we are somewhat ahead of where we thought we would be at this stage. a huge amount of work has gone into this across the board and i want to ta ke this across the board and i want to take this opportunity to thank everybody involved. next we are increasing access to testing so if i could have the next slide, please? you can see from the map we already have more than 30 drive—through centres and these are increasing to around 48. at the secretary of state mentioned, home testing options are also now in place and we will increase this further. we also want to use an approach we call the satellite approach where test kits are delivere

two lab workers in milton keynes. from a supermarket in chorley to downing street.hose who have died are remembered.” chorley to downing street. those who have died are remembered. i think it is important for us to remember people who are no longer with us because they are the innocent. they came to work to do theirjob, to care. scotland's first minister recommends wearing face coverings, but only in certain circumstances. hospitals in england are to begin restoring some services that have been put on hold because of the pandemic. hello. this is a bbc news special. in around half an hour's time, we'll be bringing you the government's daily news conference, which will be led by the health secretary, matt hancock. first, today's main developments: a rising number of deaths linked to coronavirus in care homes across the uk has pushed the overall numbers dying with the virus to a record high, according to the latest figures. nearly 25,000 deaths from all causes were recorded in the uk in week of the easter bank holiday — more than double the usual number at this time of

there are two laboratories, in addition to the one in milton keynes, in cheshire and glasgow, to process strategy is this whole thing about social distancing. whilst it would be useful to do the test to ensure nhs workers can get back on the front line as quickly as possible, particularly if they have a self isolated with symptoms in the family and it turns out those symptoms are not coronavirus, from the government's perspective it comes back to the core messaging of social distancing. they say that is the key way to drive down the rate of transmission, in other words to drive down how each infected person passes the virus onto. that is about driving down the rate of infection. an nhs worker would perhaps say, i live in a house share with four other people who work at the same hospital. 0ne other people who work at the same hospital. one of them has to south isolate, therefore we all cannot go to work. this is why they would want to work. this is why they would want to test. absolutely right. it is infuriating enough for anyone outside a medical setting when there isa outside a medical

government didn't insist on keeping testing confined to the sort of mega testing centre outside milton keyness a disparity between the government and the medical community on why we are facing this shortage of testing, albeit this morning communities secretary robert jenrick was again defending the government approach. in the uk we produce a number of the ingredients to produce the tests that we need. but to produce a reliable test you need to have a range of ingredients and not all of them, as i understand it, have always been available in the uk in the quantities that we need. but we are working with british manufacturers as much as we possibly can. they have been extremely helpful and supportive in trying to ramp up production. that is beginning to happen. we had 8240 people tested on monday. we have capacity now to do more than that. we have capacity to test about 12,700 people. and so we are going to use that spare capacity to begin testing nhs workers. now, all this has become political because labour figures are now saying the problem is the government did not focus on acquiring more t

yesterday i opened the first of our three megalabs in milton keynes.es in the world are opening another in cambridge. i want to thank the team and the volunteers who are working night and day to make this happen. today, i want to address what we are doing to make sure that we have enough ppe and to make sure that it gets to the right people. the goal i have set is that everyone working in a critical role must get the ppe that they need. nhs and care staff protect us every day while we are safe at home they go off to work to ca re safe at home they go off to work to care for us. we owe it to them to get them the kit they need to protect themselves. i want to be frank about the challenges our plan is designed to overcome. first, there is a huge international demand for ppe and a global squeeze on supply and some countries have restricted ppe. next there is high demand for ppe from within the uk and everyone should use the equipment, use the equipment they clinically need, in line with the guidelines, no more and no less. then of course there is the chall

people were, otherwise they are going to central processing laboratories such as the big one in milton keynesay, where is the result? yes, she's going to have to hassle some people to try and get the results, clearly, asa to try and get the results, clearly, as a key worker, it's really important she knows. jeff asks my partner who lives about a mile from me has had symptoms, temperature, coughing and slight difficulty breathing. it's ten days since she began to show signs and has not had a high temperature for four days although she still has an occasional cough. we haven't met forfour weeks. is it now 0k cough. we haven't met forfour weeks. is it now ok for us to meet, that's the question from geoff. what would you recommend? unfortunately, i think it's probably too soon, the who recommends two weeks after all symptoms cease. gives you the all clear. and i think if your partner still has symptoms now it's probably not a good idea, unfortunately. two weeks after all symptoms cease. rosemary, you want to come in on that? can i also say on this if you are living in different households, andi a

laboratories, university labs, other labs, private labs and now building these three mega labs in milton keynes a much more decentralised approach and that has been able to mmp approach and that has been able to ramp upfar, approach and that has been able to ramp up far, farfaster. also, germany has a stronger biomedical industry. there are more diagnostics companies. so i think it probably had a head start, in terms of its own industrial capacity. but i think if england or the uk had geared up more quickly, we could have been in a better place now and not scrambling to catch up. in fact, we had much more capacity than public health england used at the beginning? that's right. and what would have been really good would have been if, near the beginning, we'd done, as i think germany did, built upa we'd done, as i think germany did, built up a good stockpile of the supplies. now the supplies, notjust the chemicals and reagents needed to carry out these tests but the other things, the swabs, the special precision plastics needed to build the kits, those are in huge worldwide shortage. if we had st

the great economic debate was between the upheavals of 2 totaling economists and john maynard keynes a milton friedman there would he have continued if struggle for policy domination at least in the liberal democracies for most of the 70 the 2nd half of the 20th century now it's a little in fact that these 2 great economists actually agreed on one thing they agreed that the could be an economic event so cataclysmic the end justified an economic and particular monetary policy despond some government way outside the normal parameters the cope with crisis is such an event and this on the level of response from governments is going to determine the economic future basically and less government some prefer to open up the printing presses and beyond the experience of previous experience then recession will indeed come into depression and it's going to be on the scale of that response and that's coordination worldwide they'll make the difference between recession and depression and will make the difference between prolonged economic misery to add to the human messily the world is already experiencin

from the streets of belfast... to laboratory workers in milton keynes.

yes, another service that i've been looking at, people in milton keynes trundling along the pavementsently absolutely booming, people ordering absolutely booming, people ordering a takeaway or a few groceries via an app, the robots trundling down the streets, arrives at their door, no contact with the delivery person, no sort of dangerous contact but you just unlock it with an app and off you go, so a just unlock it with an app and off you go, so a lot of innovation suddenly accelerating. rory, can i just pick up on the youtube, would you message charlie the youtube video that your wife is watching because you know we enjoy conversations about charlie's hair and wejust conversations about charlie's hair and we just wondering about how big it will get before he succumbs a haircut. i will do some research, my wife bought some clippers a few weeks ago and she is getting more and more excited and i'm getting more and more frightened. i am also hoping to raise money for parkinson's uk, a charity i am supporting, we were talking about the 26 challenge earlier, i am going to be doing that as