the national audit office says there are 43,000 nursing vacancies.universities across italy will be closed as governments struggle to contain the outbreak. 0ur correspondent jon donnison reports. as the number of uk cases rises by the day, it emerged two of the latest people to become infected were patients at king's college hospital in london. they were being treated for a different condition when they tested positive for the virus. the hospital says strict cross contamination measures have been put in place and the two patients have now been transferred to a specialist unit elsewhere. and with much debate over what extra resources the nhs might need to handle a nationwide outbreak, the national audit office is warning today of a shortage of nurses. meanwhile in italy, where there have been more than 2700 cases and over 100 deaths, all schools and universities across the country will be closed from today. the government says they won't be reopened until mid—march in an effort to contain the virus. back in the uk, where the outbreak is much less exte