nick triggle there.ed today that all schools in wales will reopen on the 29thjune. she said that schools will be open to pupils from all year groups but for limited periods during the week, with restrictions on pupil numbers. in each school, there will be a phased approach. year groups will be split into cohorts with staggered starts, lessons and breaks, meaning at the most, the very most, a third of pupils will be present at any one time. we will see much smaller classes, providing secure, dedicated time with teachers and classmates, and this time will also include online and personalised classroom experiences, which will prepare children and their teachers for a similar experience in september. next week, we will publish operational guidance to support schools and further and higher education, and this will include information on managing their facilities, including buildings, resources, cleaning and transport. that was the welsh education minister. but teaching unions in wales have condemned the plans

our health correspondent nick triggle puts it this way...uk — its new infection rate is not as low as china and germany and local lockdowns are already being considered. pubs and restaurants in the city of leicester may stay closed for two more weeks due to a surge in cases there. here's the prime minister earlier. we are not out of the woods yet. it is very important, we are making these cautious, calibrated steps. we are opening as much of hospitality as we can onjuly the 4th, as much of the economy as we can, some things still remain closed until they can become covid—19 a secure, but to make all that possible, we have to be and remain vigilant, we have to be and remain vigilant, we have to be and remain vigilant, we have to continue to do the basics, washing our hands and all that, plus we need to have local lockdown is and local strategies where that is possible. the government's health secretary has been talking to officials this afternoon — we're expecting an update in the next hour. now despite local flare ups, countries around the w

figures from the first week of the new nhs test and trace programme. 0ur health correspondent nick trigglethis test and trace system is crucial for containing local outbreaks of coronavirus going forward. now, when somebody is tested positive, they are contacted by the contact tracers and they are close contacts a re by the contact tracers and they are close contacts are identified to see if they are at risk of being infected with the virus, they are then asked to self—isolate. we have data from the first week, the 28th of may to the 3rd ofjune. 8100 people who tested positive were passed on to the contact tracing system, and of those, 51100 provided details. 32,000 contacts were then identified, but only 27,000 actually reached. the data also looked at how many were reached within 2a hours. this is considered to be crucial for containing and suppressing the virus. eight out of ten were reached in 2a hours, and of those, 85% agreed to self—isolate. how should we interpret this? it seems concerning that significant numbers of people who test positive are not then providing contact details.

lauren moss, bbc news. 0ur health correspondent nick triggle is here with me now. ures about cancer ca re we nick, as well as those figures about cancer care we have also had some figures out about routine operations and emergencies. yes, they show there have been significant disruptions to the services. if you'll remember, routine operations like knee and hip replacements were cancelled en masse at the start of the pandemic so hospitals could prepare for the expected surge in coronavirus cases. looking at a chart, it is no surprise there has been a big drop in the numbers being operated on. normally it would be touching around 300,000 operations a month, and that dropped to 200,000 in march, then in april down to 40,000. that is unprecedented. normally you would expect hospitals to get through that number into mac 01’ to get through that number into mac or three days. hospitals are restarting this routine work but nhs leaders are warning it could take at least a year before they get back to normal. meanwhile, a&e is a different story. that has stayed open. people a

with me now is our health correspondent nick triggle.ce march 28. on the face of it thatis since march 28. on the face of it that is pretty encouraging. it is, we hear about the picture improving, with about the new numbers on admissions or infections or sadly the new number of deaths announced but the figures are significant. 436 new admissions, 324 new deaths announced today and over 1600 new infections. it is why health secretary matt hancock said there was still some way to go but it begs the question why we are not actually lower, in a better position. if you look at spain and italy, both countries badly affected as we have been, they are seeing better figures, lower as we have been, they are seeing betterfigures, lowerfigures. as we are easing out of lockdown, i think we will be carefully watching what is happening with them. will they stay the same or come down? of course the concern will be if they go course the concern will be if they 9° up course the concern will be if they goupa course the concern will be if they go up a bit a

our health correspondent is here, nick triggle.eek —— health differences. this is a huge step that has been taken. it was expected after all this and many countries do not require a two metre social distancing— like germany, france, italy, australia all have something from one to 1.5 metres. the world health organization itself does not recommend or suggest a need for two metres. it is interesting, the prime minister talked about one metre plus. he said that where mid two metres is not possible, less than two metres is fine, but there needs to be steps taken to mitigate the risk. in shops, that may be screens put up, we may see some screens in pubs separating tables. in offices, people will not be sitting face—to—face. and we will still be asked to keep that to metre where possible. the prime minister said if you introduce these measures to mitigate the rest —— that two metres. we might not actually have more risk at one metre then we do at two metres because the sign so far has suggested that the risk at one metre may be ten times

with me now is our health correspondent nick triggle. and the north west of england, it was just over one. south—west and the north west of england, it wasjust over one. yes, a lot of debate about this number, and the truth is that there are lots of different models and estimates looking at the r number. 0verall, the government says it is below one in every region, but some do show in the north—west and the south—west it has gone above one, the concern obviously that infections will start rising there. we can perhaps see a chart about the current level of infections, these are the new infections, these are the new infections that are diagnosed each day, we can see that there was 1200 new diagnoses in the last day, that is the lowest since lockdown began, we we re is the lowest since lockdown began, we were seeing over 6000 a day at one point, and that is with more testing in place, so good news, but the concern is that we may not be picking up all of the positive cases out there. surveillance suggests they may be five times as many cases

nick triggle, our health correspondent, is here. death certificate, unlike the daily figures produced that the lie ona daily figures produced that the lie on a positive test for coronavirus. two things to look out for, the number of deaths linked to coronaviruses shows in the most recent week to the 22nd of may there we re recent week to the 22nd of may there were 2589 fatalities were coronavirus was mentioned on the death certificate, that brings the total linked to the virus since the start of the pandemic to over 43,000, that compares to nearly 34,000 at that point in time from the government statistics. this is showing perhaps the true total is much greater than the government figures show. the second thing is what has the pandemic done to the overall numbers of deaths? normally at this time of year we would see about 10,000 people every week die and in this most recent week, there we re over and in this most recent week, there were over 12,000 but at the peak of the pandemic, there are actually over 20,000 people dying so we ca

nick triggle.al assault, in an essay defending her comments on transgender issues. it comes after she was accused of transphobia, following a series of controversial tweets. in a blog post, the harry potter author said incidents in her past had shaped her opinions on the need to protect girls. jk rowling has revealed how she experienced domestic nick beake's report contains some flashing images. apart from the occasional premieres for herfilms, jk rowling prefers to stay out of the limelight. but now, after being accused of transphobia, she says she has to speak up and has revealed deeply personal experiences. in a long essay, she describes her first marriage as violent and says she suffered a very serious sexual assault in her 20s. she doesn't identify her attacker. it's a reference to what she calls the relentless attacks on social media she's received after tweeting about the importance of biological sex. actor daniel radcliffe, who made his name in the harry potter films, spoke out, saying tran

our health corespondent nick triggle is with me. on the latest death figures from covid—19 in the 290, which seemed like quite a streak steep rise, just break it down for us? yes, so, the total numbers have gone up by 280 today to nearly 43,000. but among those 280 were 109 deaths that happened in april, may andjune deaths that happened in april, may and june that weren't initially recorded as coronavirus deaths, but 110w recorded as coronavirus deaths, but now they have gone back, checked the records and they have been put down as coronavirus deaths. this has happened before, it does happen in other countries so it is not entirely unusual. in the last 24 hours, 171 new deaths have been recorded. now, that is much louder than yesterday, when 15 was announced, but we often see this around the weekend. if we look back to last tuesday, there was 233 dots, the tuesday before that, 286. so, the tuesday before that, 286. so, the 171 deaths is still a downward trend. the seven—day rolling average we are seeing just over 100 deaths at the p