absolutely not the data from the office for national statistics to show that asians are much more likely to live in multigenerational households and that is documented by the office for national statistics and to be fair the government has been warning for some time to further vote down measures may be necessary and local directors of health the days and weeks before have been warning that this might be necessary so to say this is completely an inspector and expected is not accurate there's been the possibility of this for some time the local directors of health warned of this last tuesday for example in various parts of that particular area so it wasn't inspected but to make to make this into a racial issue over a cultural issue is indeed unfortunate we all fighting a life threatening pandemic cadia we have to look at the meds and we have to look at the epidemiology and the thing to cloud the science with cultural issues is unfortunate and indeed cultural clouding has been a problem throughout this pandemic and i mentioned this quite a few times we've seen it in the united states we've

some breaking news now — the office for national statistics has for the first time conducted international are just out on how the uk compares to other european countries. let's get the details from ben humberstone, from the office for national statistics. i have been keeping an eye on your twitter account. i haven't seen the figures on there yet. so you can tell us first, what are the key headlines? what we have published todayis headlines? what we have published today is our first international comparisons of all—cause mortality, excess mortality, over the period of the pandemic. at some for the first six months of this year. we have looked at it week by week and we have compared what we would normally expect to see in a week based on the previous five year average, with what we have actually observed as a result of covid—19, but also other deaths that might be related to that. that really shows the tragic impact of covid—19. what the figures show is that the uk had the second—highest peak of excess deaths, excess mortality, during the pandemic period after spain. and within that, englan

the office for national statistics compared the number of deaths with the five—year average.ecent years — followed by spain and scotland. it comes as people who test positive for covid—19, or show symptoms of the virus, are being told they must now self—isolate at home for ten days, rather than seven. the change was agreed by all four of the uk's chief medical officers. here's our science editor, david shukman. it's a time of growing concern about a resurgence of the coronavirus and of all the ways to fight it, keeping away from others is one of the most effective. so if you think you've got the disease, wherever you live in the uk, you should now isolate not just for seven days, but for ten. government advisers say the extra time makes a difference. we were seeing a very nice decline and now it's looking like it might be taking off again. we need to look at every measure we can which will mitigate that effect. this is a contributor, we think, to limiting the spread of the disease. there is still a lot we don't know about the virus, so extending the period of self—isolation i

the office for national statistics compared the number of deaths with the five—year average.was 7.5% higher than in recent years, followed by spain and scotland. it comes as people who test positive for covid—i9, or show symptoms of the virus, are being told they must now self—isolate at home for ten days, rather than seven. the change was agreed by all four of the uk's chief medical officers. here's our science editor, david shukman. it isa it is a time of growing concern about a resurgence of the coronavirus and of all the ways to fight it, keeping away from others is one of the most effective. so if you think you have got the disease, you think you have got the disease, you should now isolate notjust for seven days, but for ten. you should now isolate notjust for seven days, but forten. government advisers say the extra time could make a difference. we were seeing a very nice decline and now it's looking like it might be taking off again and we need to look at every measure we can which will mitigate that effect. this is a contributor, we think, to limiting the spread of t

with all due respect the media can help and you can produce the sort of using the our office for national statistics interrupted mark is quite an easy to produce a sort of a literally or a weather record for coronavirus. for more on the office for national statistics funding that england has had the worst covert military experience in europe and now joined by the former owner as head of health another says jamie change things jamie thank you for joining us not that there's no spinning this kind of statistic is there on excess deaths what we are the worst. well yeah i think the daily conference that we had for many months they kept saying you have to wait for some time before we can do some comparisons and then dushan in age adjusted mortality rates and and that is exactly what i have done today so they've taken data from their own information for england and wales they've taken the data from scottish government and from northern ireland so this is a agency and then they've compared that with they to each of the countries in europe provide to the european to disk lazier stat and that's allowed and th

new figures from the office for national statistics have found england had the highest level of excessacross the first half of 2020. earlier this month the uk united to thank nhs staff for their work during the pandemic. now the group together which helped organise the clap says they community spirit that formed during lockdown is starting to fray. it's hoped today's tightening of the rules will be seen as an important signal warning against complacency. anna collinson, bbc news. let's speak to our assistant political editor, norman smith, in westminster. extending the self isolation time, talking of extending quarantine to other countries, it feels like the government is battening down again, doesn't it? i think this will come asa doesn't it? i think this will come as a jolt to many others because the sun is out, lockdown is being eased, we can go to the park and go to restau ra nts, ta ke a we can go to the park and go to restaurants, take a foreign holiday abroad, a bit wobbly there. this announcementjust abroad, a bit wobbly there. this announcement just feels like abroad, a bit wo

with all due respect the media can help and you can produce the sort of using the office for national statistics interrupted maher is needed to produce a sort of a litany of a weather report for coronavirus we're really saying a 2nd wave possibly coming or just the 1st wave continuing well is the 1st continuing i'm afraid we're not at the end of that we're still seeing a tragic number of deaths every day and those lives you know could potentially be saved if we can be far more confident. in telling the public we've got to take coronavirus really seriously i'm especially in the hot spots there are many of them are our country well and you talk about hot spots then so should we carry on with this idea of localized lockdowns when we or perhaps contemplating the idea of a 2nd wave or disperse wave in getting worse all we not prepared to deal with this all perhaps we could be facing another national lockdown. oh that's the irony in all public health pandemic management local lock downs are normal and that's the irony in the u.k. because we didn't follow standard public health and i meant management p

this is the office for national statistics which look at the labour market across the uk and at 7am wethe unemployment figures, the unemployment rates we talk about every few months for years and yea rs. every few months for years and years. that is something that will be closely watched. that hasn't shut up be closely watched. that hasn't shut up the way be closely watched. that hasn't shut le be closely watched. that hasn't shut up the way people have expected it to yet. there are other figures, like the number of people claiming benefits. here in liverpool, it is one of the cities that has seen the biggest increases in benefit claimants. we have a vacancy numbers, how many jobs claimants. we have a vacancy numbers, how manyjobs are out there over the water in birkenhead, across the mersey. that area is one of the most competitive in the country right now for the amount of people applying forjobs. all of this comes down to people's livelihoods. these figures will try to give the government a bit of an idea of what we need to do next, where we need to focus next. we caught up with a c

done 1000000 people get it while the waiting list for the head of health analysis at the office for national statistics jamie jenkins join me early he said that the a lack of testing in britain in march or april meant many deaths were recorded there's something else. the actual largest speak was actually in spain banda kind of stringent lockdown measures was meant was that a very high a peak that peak then came down and then england was the peak was not as large and it was more prolonged so when you look over the whole period it and he has come out as the worst in europe and what do you make of that figure any question over the collation all of that data do we just accept the fact that excess deaths are sad tragic simple facts so one of the benefits of excess deaths is what you really do it is just looking at what would be the normal number of deaths you would expect in each country at any particular time and then you just looking at how are the number of deaths over and above the average for the time of year and say a minute come on top there but what the data and i support together does actually show

the latest figures from the office for national statistics show that coronavirus deaths in the week endingly expected at this time of year for the fourth week in a row. today‘s latest figures show that 110 deaths were recorded in the uk in the latest 24—hour period. our health editor hugh pym has the latest including today‘s parliamentary exchanges with the scientists. moving on, people adjusting to life with fewer restrictions. but still there are many questions about government policy at the start of the coronavirus crisis. first, was lockdown too late? streets emptied on march the 23rd when the full set of measures was introduced. some have argued it should have happened a week earlier when only a partial lockdown message was used. mps pressed the chief medical adviser hard on what he said at the time. i would have to go through all my notes... i understand that... you‘re basically trying to get me and remember... i'm not... but i was not expecting that question. mps wanted to know what the sage committee of advisers was telling ministers. were they following your advice? ministers at t

in the past half an hour, the office for national statistics in the uk has released figures comparingcross europe during the coronavirus pandemic for the first time. it shows that england had the highest level of excess mortality in europe for the weeks from 24th february to 14th june. and the uk had the second highest peak of excess deaths after spain. it comes as people with coronavirus symptoms in england are expected to be told to self—isolate for ten days, rather than seven, as the government tries to avoid a second outbreak of the virus in the uk. currently, people with a new continous cough, high temperature or loss of taste or smell, have to self—isolate for seven days. others in the household are told to self—isolate for 14 days. the self—isolation period for those with symptoms is set to increase from seven to ten days, for several reasons. first, there is lots of evidence that people continue to shed the virus after their symptoms have gone away. second, widespread testing means positive cases are being picked up earlier, for example when they are asymptomatic. and finally,

the economy grew by 1.8% from april, according to figures from the office for national statistics. get responsibility has warned that the uk economy might not recover from the coronavirus crisis until 202a. like the bank of england, it warns the uk is on track to record the largest decline in annual gdp for 300 years. our economics correspondent dharshini david reports. flourishing, but not quite back in full bloom. like other garden centres, this one reopened in may, but it's yet to make up the money lost during lockdown. normally, we would have a start—up in march, steady progress in march, a big april and a big may. that didn't happen in april, it was really difficult. may has been phenomenal, the second half of it, and june has also been quite phenomenal. not just here, but for the whole garden industry. we've made up quite a bit, of course, thankfully, but we are still behind for the year. all of this is about sowing the seeds of a recovery. in the weeks after lockdown, the economy lost about a quarter of its output, wiping out 18 years of gains. as other sectors also reopened,

the office for national statistics compared the number of deaths with the five—year average.— followed by spain and scotland. it comes as people who test positive for covid—19 in the uk, or show symptoms of the virus, are being told they must now self—isolate at home for ten days, rather than seven. the change was agreed by all four of the uk's chief medical officers. here's our science editor, david shukman. it's a time of growing concern about a resurgence of the coronavirus and of all the ways to fight it, keeping away from others is one of the most effective. so if you think you have got the disease, you should now isolate not just for seven days, but for ten. government advisers say the extra time could make a difference. we were seeing a very nice decline and now it's looking like it might be taking off again and we need to look at every measure we can which will mitigate that effect. this is a contributor, we think, to limiting the spread of the disease. there is still a lot we don't know about the virus, so extending the period of self—isolation is really about trying

it's of normality but the latest figures from the office for national statistics shows that england is now the worst affected for excess deaths the data shows that england has the longest continuous period of excess mortality in the 1st half of 20 twentieth's least as well as also having the 2nd highest peak compared to its european counterparts that's as a group of scientists from cambridge university have said that the reproductive rate is rising and in some parts of the country it is now above one of course scientists have long been saying that anything above one could lead to another spike now the prime minister boris johnson has been commenting on all of this striking a pretty cautious tone and warning that the virus is still very much out there. we're looking at a resurgence of the virus in some other european countries you can see what's been happening in the united states and so it is absolutely vital as a country that we continue to keep our focus and discipline and that we don't delude ourselves that somehow we're out of the woods or that this is all over because it isn't all

the office for national statistics looked atge the ave numbers dying over the past five years to workhat are called excess deaths. . e w many mople than normal died at the height of the pandemic? france had a slight increase in deaths above average, but all the u.k. nation saw many more die. england by this reckoning lost most of anywre in europe. paulgreen half was among them. a fitness instructor who died from covid-19 at the age of 55. her identical twisister, karen, says the government was too slow to act. >>e w should have gone into lockdown immediately. as soon as our government and boris johnson was aware of the situation, we sinuld have been ockdown immediately. thousands of people, including my sister, are dead. the people would still be alive today if the government would have acted on this immediately. david: on a day meant to highlight thousands of new police recruits, numbers of a more tragic kind are dominating instead. the virus still has the potential to claim more lives. david shukman, bbc news. katty: let's get more on what is happening in the u.k. and acss europe. i

the office for national statistics says since the lockdown there‘s been a huge shift towards online shoppingon has more. watford — a town dominated by a shopping centre and where the dramatic changes in retail are now being played out. during lockdown, it lost its debenhams, and then, just recently, john lewis. the shutters now permanently down. it says it is no longer financially viable because so much shopping is now done online. this resident is leading the campaign to save it. i think it‘s the beating heart of this town centre. john lewis is the anchor store for the intu centre. it draws people from all over the place. without ourjohn lewis, i really feel the whole of the town centre is going to crumble. it‘s the main draw. retail sales are recovering, but it is a mixed bag. some sectors are doing better than others. this family—run jeweller‘s been ticking over for 144 years. dan runs it now, and says, although sales are picking up, times have definitely changed. it‘s a small shop. it used to get packed, and obviously we can‘t do that now, because we‘re limited on numbers, so i can‘t see

today the weekly survey by the office for national statistics reports that the prevalence of the virus to be rising for the first time since may. around one in 1,500 now have the virus compared to one in 1,800 on the 15th ofjuly and one in 2,000 on the 2nd ofjuly. the ons also estimates there are now 4,900 new infections every day, up from around 3,000 per day on the 14th ofjuly and 2,000 per day at the end ofjune. we just cannot afford to ignore this evidence. it is vital to stress, of course, that we are in a far better position to keep the virus under control now than we were at the start of the pandemic because we know so much more about the virus, we have so many more tools at our disposal to deal with it — our testing capacity has increased 100—fold, we have a contact tracing system up and running, which has led to over 184,000 people isolating who may otherwise have spread the virus, and is capable of chasing the virus, and is capable of tracing thousands of contacts every day. we have secured billions of items of ppe to withstand the new demands on hospitals and care homes, and

the office for national statistics looked at the average numbers dying over the past five years to worke height of the pandemic. france had a slight increase in deaths above average, but all the uk nations saw many more die. england, by this reckoning, lost most of anywhere in europe. paula greenhough was among them, a fitness instructor who died from covid—i9 at the age of 55. her identical twin sister, karren, says the government was too slow to act. we should have gone into lockdown immediately. as soon as our government and borisjohnson was aware of the situation, we should have been in lockdown immediately. thousands of people, including my sister, are dead. these people would still be alive today if the government and boris would have acted on this immediately. the prime minister was asked if he was ashamed of the losses, how the uk had seen so many people dying. we really owe it to them to continue our work in driving the virus down, and clearly this country has had a massive success now in reducing the numbers of those tragic deaths. it is absolutely vital as a country that we c

the office for national statistics says, since the lockdown, there's been a huge shift towards onlinete the easing of the lockdown, the high street is still struggling. emma simpson has more. watford — a town dominated by a shopping centre and where the dramatic changes in retail are now being played out. during lockdown, it lost its debenhams, and then, just recently, john lewis. the shutters now permanently down. it says it is no longer financially viable because so much shopping is now done online. this resident is leading the campaign to save it. i think it's the beating heart of this town centre. john lewis is the anchor store for the intu centre. it draws people from all over the place. without ourjohn lewis, i really feel the whole of the town centre is going to crumble. it's the main draw. retail sales are recovering, but it is a mixed bag. some sectors are doing better than others. this family—run jeweller‘s been ticking over for 144 years. dan runs it now, and says, although sales are picking up, times have definitely changed. it's a small shop. it used to get packed, and ob

the office for national statistics says there were more than 46,000 offences in the 12 months to theen a "significant" reduction in overall offending, falling by 9%. on the ninth day ofjohnny‘s depp case against the sun newspaper, the court heard evidence from a neighbour stating that he did not see any bruises on amber heard's face in the days after an alleged assault. the court saw a photograph which showed her with a bruised faced. mr depp is suing over an article where he was referred to as a "wife—beater". the queen's granddaughter, princess beatrice, has married the property developer edoardo mapelli mozzi. a private ceremony took place in windsor this morning. the couple's wedding had been due to take place in may, but was postponed due to the pandemic. now, tracy edwards is one of britain's leading yachtswomen, having skippered the first all—female crew in the whitbread round the world yacht race. she's also an mbe. but now, to support her own charity during the coronavirus pandemic, she's decided to sell some of her medals. duncan kennedy has the story. this was the day that

the latest figures from the office for national statistics show the number of crimes involving a knifen to a new record high. there were more than 16,000 offences in the 12 months to the end of march this year, up 6% from the previous year. there was also a big rise in murders. of all the killings, 256 involved a knife or sharp object, up very slightly on the year before. the bishop of st albans led the calls for a more ambitious approach. will her majesty's government commit to a public health approach to this problem, encompassing poverty reduction, increasing youth services and strengthening community policing? the cause of knife crime problems are not from any one source. and the interventions needed have not got any... there is not a magic area in which we can deploy those interventions. it has got to be a multi—agency approach, a public health approach, as the right reverend says. it'sjust been said that stop and search is an important part of the police system of dealing with this matter. is there anything that can be done to remove the fact that its use appears to be strongly b

the office for national statistics said that was the third biggest monthly figure on record.feared? it's a lot of money but not actually as much as the government had to borrow in the previous month, in may. but as you say, it‘s extremely significant and it is easy to see why. the economy has been on life support during lockdown, the government ‘s tax reve nu es lockdown, the government ‘s tax revenues have fallen, very significantly and at the same time, it‘s been paying out money for furlough schemes and other covid—19 support schemes so across the three months of the first part of the financial year, april, may, june, the government actually had to borrow £128 billion, that is a record and to put it into perspective, that compares with 55.4 billion in the whole of last year. and across this year as a whole, we are looking at more than £300 billion. the question being is there any alternative and is it sustainable? most people would say the government has no alternative but to spend a lot of money at the moment in order to avoid a cascade of unemployment. the question is wh

today the weekly survey by the office for national statistics reports that the prevalence of the virusates there are now a900 new infections every day, up from around 3000 per day on the 1ath ofjuly and 2000 per day on the 1ath ofjuly and 2000 per day at the end ofjune. we just cannot afford to ignore this evidence. it is vital to stress, of course, that we are in a far better position to keep the virus under control now than we were at the start of the pandemic because we know so much more about the virus, we have so many more tools at our disposal to deal with it, our testing capacity has increased 100 fold, we have a contact tracing system fold, we have a contact tracing syste m u p fold, we have a contact tracing system up and running which has led to over 18a,000 people isolating who may otherwise have spread the virus and is capable of chasing thousands of co nta cts and is capable of chasing thousands of contacts every day. we have secured billions of items of ppe to withstand the new demands on hospitals and care homes and of course we have new treatments pioneered in this coun

that's according to new figures from the office for national statistics.d or suspected coronavirus infections, with the highest number of people dying in south east england. the data comes in advance of the introduction next week of routine testing for staff and residents in care homes. dominic hughes reports. the toll the coronavirus outbreak has taken in care homes is becoming ever clearer. official figures show an extra 29,000 deaths in care homes in england and wales between march and june, compared to the same period last year. the data is exposing just how vulnerable elderly residents were to the virus and will lead to questions about what more could have been done to protect them. we'll have to go back and look at exactly what happened. i bitterly, bitterly regret every single loss of life that we've had. there is new data too on how new infections spread through care homes. a survey of around 5,000 care homes in england and wales revealed that more than half have seen coronavirus infections. in those homes, on average a fifth of residents became in

that's according to new figures from the office for national statistics.number of people dying in south east england. the data comes in advance of the introduction next week of routine testing for staff and residents in care homes. here's our health correspondent dominic hughes. the toll the coronavirus outbreak has taken in care homes is becoming ever clearer. official figures show an extra 29,000 deaths in care homes in england and wales between march and june, compared to the same period last year. the data is exposing just how vulnerable elderly residents were to the virus and will lead to questions about what more could have been done to protect them. we'll have to go back and look at exactly what happened. i bitterly, bitterly regret every single loss of life that we've had. there is new data too on how new infections spread through care homes. a survey of around 5,000 care homes in england and wales revealed that more than half have seen coronavirus infections. in those homes, on average a fifth of residents became infected with the virus, and 7% of

the office for national statistics says despite signs of recovering in manufacturing and house—building for may, the month on its own, the economy growing by1.8%, month on its own, the economy growing by 1.8%, well below the 5% growth forecast. analysts had been hoping that as some businesses were able to get back into work, that the economy would start to rebound. we know the construction and manufacturing sectors, as lockdown restrictions were eased they were able to restart work but that was not enough to give the economy the boost it has needed. it is the service sector that has really struggled. service includes all sorts of things, financial services, bars, restaurants and hairdressers, all those sorts of things are struggling to get back to any normality. what we saw in these figures is that the economy is still a quarter smaller now than it was in february before the crisis hit. you touched on that three—month figure and ordinarily that gives us a zoom out, letting us look at a more long—term picture. you can see from this image showing the three—month figure with the economy no

pandemic the number of britons who work from home i shan't be increased according to the office for national statistics almost half the u.k.'s employees work from home in april and experts predict this trend will continue but some are warning off worrying consequences if remote workers don't take steps to stay healthy. ringback well we started with some breaking news this hour as well according to reports a police officer has been stabbed in north london after being called to deal with a man carrying a knife the officer was stabbed in the arm after he attempted to confront the suspect the individual in question was tasered and is now in custody well that's all from our u.k. our colleagues at r.t. america will take over at the top of the hour but from all the team here in westminster by. we go to work. straight home. time after time called her ration to repeat the same mantra sustainability very important to excel or a transition to sustainable prize board sustainability stay in her manner a more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely hama's. because. it builds on the

the office for national statistics revealed data showing that 649,000 people left company payrolls in and june. the figures show 7a,000 fewer people on the paye register during june compared with the previous month. and the number of people claiming work—related benefits, including the unemployed, was 2.6 million. it comes as the british chambers of commerce warned that almost a third of uk firms expect to cut jobs in the next three months. that increase was not as big as many feared, because large numbers of firms have put employees on the government—backed furlough scheme. economists say the full effect on employment will not be felt until the scheme ends in october. norman smith is at westminster. with that fellow scheme not yet ending and therefore uncertainty about how many people who are still officially unemployed keeping their jobs, how useful are the figures today and how accurate are they —— the furlough scheme? they give us an indication of the storm still to come because although the figures today are of course desperate for those who have lostjobs, they are not as bad as

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against the virus we are now reporting regularly fewer than 1000 new cases each day the office for national statistics estimates that between the 14th of june in the 27th of june the most recent period they have analyzed 25000 people in the community in england had the virus one person in every 2200. sage assess that the hour rate the average number of people each infected person passes the virus on to remains between no point 7 and not point 9 across the u.k. sage also assess that in england the number of new infections is shrinking by between 2 and 5 percent every day and while the number of people dying with corona virus remains too high the numbers do continue to fall. now of course this picture is not universal there are areas such as leicester where the virus is still more prevalent than we would like we always said there would be local outbreaks requiring local action this is to be expected and will i'm afraid be a feature of our lives for some time to come. but that should not take away from the great progress we have made together as a country against this vicious disease this progress is the

the office for national statistics has released new figures, revealing that almost 20,000 care home residentsyou have just emerging? it is even worse than you havejust said, emerging? it is even worse than you have just said, maybe 20,000 people have just said, maybe 20,000 people have died from coronavirus, but they account for half of the excess deaths that we have seen during the pandemic, nearly 30,000 excess deaths. you can see here the number of deaths that happened in care homes throughout the pandemic. the lines in the middle of the charter at the numbers from last year, about 500 a day coming down gradually into the summer. the height of the bars shows the deaths this year, really spiking up in march, running at more than a thousand deaths a day in the middle of april. when you add up the difference across all of those dates from last year to what we have seen this year, those are the excess deaths, not just the this year, those are the excess deaths, notjust the coronavirus infections, but all of the other deaths that we think probably were linked to coronavirus. that is a we of fig

we should say it could be revised further, it is difficult for the office for national statistics tod figures it needs to compile this figure. last month's figure was revised down by about £10 billion. so it can fluctuate, but nonetheless it does underscore how much all of this is costing. let me introduce you to grace blakeley, an economist with the ippr. give me your thoughts on this number, because as we said, not as high as last month, which indicates business is getting back to work, the demand for the furlough scheme is decreasing but £35 billion is still a lot of money? a quick correction, lam a lot of money? a quick correction, iaman a lot of money? a quick correction, i am an economics commentator at tribute magazine. we will expect a big increase in government spending. he thinks of gdp and the economy made up of the spending of households, businesses and the state. net imports and exports. theirspending state. net imports and exports. their spending goes down in some of those areas, which will be going down amongst businesses, they are investing less and households consumi

the office for national statistics revealed data showing that 649,000 people left company payrolls betweend june. the figures show 7a,000 fewer people on the paye register during june compared with the previous month. and the number of people claiming work—related benefits, including the unemployed, was 2.6 million. it comes as the british chambers of commerce warned that almost a third of uk firms expect to cut jobs in the next three months. that increase was not as big as many feared, because large numbers of firms have put employees on the government—backed furlough scheme. economists say the full effect on employment will not be felt until the scheme ends in october. let's talk to our assistant political editor, norman smith. good morning. we know that many people's jobs are still there, technically, but for practical purposes, whether they will continue might depend on customer demand. how useful are these figures today and how accurate are they in giving a picture of employment against unemployment? i think they tell us pretty clearly that there is a gathering storm, and has not yet

meanwhile, this morning, new figures from the office for national statistics have been released, whichally in the last few minutes. you have done two reports, one more general one on the care home sector i believe and one which analyses how many ca re i believe and one which analyses how many care homes have had covid and what proportion of residents and staff in those homes have had covid and the factors at work there. what are the key findings from the studies you would like to highlight for us? looking at care homes who have residents with dementia or older residents, we found 66 —— 56% of these care homes reported at least one coronavirus case involving a resident or star. of those care homes, 20% of residents in those ca re homes, 20% of residents in those care homes, around 311,000 people had covid—19 positive tests and around 7% of staff. 20% of residents and 7% of staff, what time period was that over? that is over the entire period of the pandemic. that is since the start of the pandemic is reported by ca re start of the pandemic is reported by care home managers. you obviousl

figures from the office for national statistics show retail sales grew by 13.9 percent injune. ns also says the latest three months as a whole, still saw the weakest quarterly growth on record. angus thirlwell is chief executive of the chocolatier and cocoa grower, hotel chocolat. thanks forjoining us. are you seeing an increase in demand or have your levels sort of stay the same throughout the last a very difficult few weeks? yes, we have seen very different patterns. our online business has tripled over the last quarter. and in physical retail we are seeing a very quarter. and in physical retail we are seeing a very different pattern in different parts of the country. the good news for high streets in market towns and smaller towns with residential art that they are benefiting from previous commuters working from home. those people are going for walks, they are discovering the high street, their spending money there. and what we are seeing through our figures is that some of our locations are doing better than last year and several more are doing about the same. where it is st

when you look at the comments from the office for national statistics, it says many services remainedhe fact that so many people have not been in work, they've been furloughed, not been able to contribute to the economy the way they would have done previously. if you look in the three months to may, the construction sector in particular had such a big fall, seek and maybe see why when we are on a construction site, there was a lot of talk about trying to get the uk building again. that colla pse get the uk building again. that collapse in that part of the economy was really hitting these figures hard. thosejob figures was really hitting these figures hard. those job figures we talked about, so many companies laying off so about, so many companies laying off so many people. the economy has hit hard. businesses are reacting and workers are suffering on the back of that. we're going to find out how that. we're going to find out how that business is doing as well. deliveries. everybody ordering stuff on line. the governor of california has reimposed a sweeping closure of public spaces in

figures from the office for national statistics released today show 35.5 billion pounds was borrowedding and a rise in tax coming in. nevertheless, june‘s borrowing figure was still the third highest monthly total since records began in 1993 and about five times more than the same month last year. the figure takes the total government debt to a record 1.98 trillion pounds. let‘s speak to our business correspondent ben thompson. what do today‘s figures tell us about what the government‘s had to spend during the crisis? you are right and it‘s hard to get our hill around a skill of these figures for the numbers that are unheard of in terms of tackling a problem but we know where the money has gone. it‘s gone on propping up businesses and wages for staff are not able to work during this coronavirus pandemic. we know the chancellor has been spending money to try to ease off some of the worst effects for the economy but the big questions of course are, who will pay for it? and when will we pay for it? you do have to pay it back. let me show you the graph that does illustrate what is happen

from the office of national statistics found that england had the highest level of excess deaths in europe across the first half of 2020. earlier this month the uk united thanked nhs staff forng the pandemic. now the group together, which helped organised the club, claim the community spirit formed during lockdown is starting to fray. it is hoped today's tightening of the rules will be seen as an important signal, warning against complacency. anna collinson, bbc news. our political correspondent jonathan blake is at westminster. jonathan, we're looking today at the government extending the isolation period from seven to ten days, and also talking about possibly more countries on the quarantine list. also talking about possibly more countries on the quarantine listm sounds as if they are tightening up? it does. that seems to be the message from government with further countries possibly being added to the list of those which are involved in quarantine measures, where people need to stay in isolation on their return to the uk. and that increasing the number of days that people need to isolate for, if they have coronavirus symptoms, from seven to ten. taken together, these mea

from the office of national statistics found that england had the highest level of excess deaths in europe across the first half of 2020. earlier this month the uk united thanked nhs staff forduring the pandemic. now the group together, which helped organised the clap, claim the community spirit formed during lockdown is starting to fray. it is hoped today's tightening of the rules will be seen as an important signal, warning against complacency. anna collinson, bbc news. you will know if you have been watching that we have been waiting for a decision about lester, will the boundaries be changed? we still don't have a clear decision but perhaps just worth bringing you a couple of comments that have been made by then mayor of leicester saying i am incredibly frustrated on behalf of the people of leicester, particularly on behalf of the business is because of they now have had four weeks of extra lockdown and it essentially does businesses are struggling and angry on their behalf and that is as much as we know at the moment, we are still waiting for a firm decision as to what is at —— what exactly is going to happen there in that city. so if we get back guidance today we will

which is gathering certain categories versus the office of national statistics, which is gathering different categories. so if you put south asian altogether, forsage to different communities. and also telling people what they can do in terms of lifestyle today. when you talk about tailored public health messaging, it is something that hasn't happened so far. what does that look like in practice? you're absolutely right. i would say firstly, in different communities, there are different ways of processing, that might be in terms of language, in terms of where that message comes from. so it might be that you have to go to community centres, temples, mosques. we provide some recommendations about places of worship, about weddings and funerals and so on, which are slightly nuanced depending on the community. can i ask you, doctor, as well, just one last thing. if your recommendations are not picked up, and if they are not done, what is the risk? i mean, what could the risk be from doing nothing? well, we have already seen the risk, that we have already seen the risk, that we have got tens of thousands of excess deaths overall, and those have dispr

about some recent troubling statistics that ought to serve as a call to action for every single one of us. last friday in observance of world drug day, the united nations office on drugs and crime released its annual rural drug report detailing the impact of drug use and trafficking across the world. it paints a grim picture. it reminds us that america has a unique addiction crisis, especially as it relates to opioids. the report says in recent years the united states has lost more men, women, and children to drug overdosed deaths, 60,000 people a year, than the next 20 countries combined. let me say that again. the united states has lost more people to drug overdose deaths than the next 20 countries combined. that is unacceptable. this is in comparison to the united states to other countries is a reminder that we have got to do better and we can do better. even more concerning to me is the recent data we're now receiving about what's happening as a result of the current coronavirus pandemic. it was bad enough as the world drug report shows but now during the last few months during this pandemic, things have gotten worse. the overdose detection mapping progra

what does the infection survey from the office for national statistics show us? far lower than they were in may and that they have declined, slow down but it is still looking good. they went into 25,000 people, selected at random and asked them to swap themselves. they got eight positive test back, so very few. we can show that to the audience what that means if you scale it up to the whole population of england. about 14,000 people across all of england in homes the estimate are testing positive. you can see the trend over the last few weeks, it may have bounced up and down a little bit in the last few weeks, but that broad trend is one of big decline that is may be flattening out a little bit. we see more information that confirms this when we turn to the public health england data when we look at the actual number of confirmed cases. that has fallen by a quarter over the course of the last week for which we have data, despite there being more tests carried out. it is two spreadsheets bringing us good news about the direction of travel for the number of infecti

registration up coronavirus cases anyway and we've been that, looking at the figures from the office for national statisticsou look at those figures, england still has one of the highest death tolls in the world. while the state it needs to be reconsidered, the overall theme doesn't seem to change that much. thank you. let's go to westminster, iain watson is there for us and if i could pick up on the story that's just been emerging, this looks pretty difficult, public health england criticised during this whole saga. yes, public health england has been criticised and there is some speculation certainly come around here about whether public health england will be made at least one of the scapegoats for the handling of the scapegoats for the handling of the crisis. this appears to be an error by public health england by effectively regarding some of the deaths that have happened this year is coronavirus even if people had recovered and died of a different cause. i think we should get it into perspective. the vast majority of deaths that have been recorded had been recorded as the result of positive tests in h

longer to get new research going, so it is great that they're doing this, alongside the office for national statisticsigh risk of covid—19 mortality among different black, asian minority ethnic groups could, about half, be accounted for by deprivation. in other words, the more deprived the area, the higher the mortality from covid—19, and bame groups are more likely to live in deprived areas than white british. so, about half of it was deprivation. what is the rest? it could be front—line exposure in occupation, it could be crowded households. what we don't know, and i hope this new research will help us i hope this new research will help us understand, is the degree to which it represents new infections or severity of infection, related both to deprivation, crowded, front—line occupations and the like, and also pre—existing conditions, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, that increase the likelihood that a covid—19 patient will be fatal. that increase the likelihood that a covid-19 patient will be fatal. so interesting to hear your perspectives this afternoon, thank you very much for your time. that is

that's according to new figures from the office for national statistics.irmed or suspected coronavirus infections, with the highest number of people dying in south east england. the data comes ahead of the introduction next week of routine testing for staff and residents in care homes. dominic hughes reports. the toll the coronavirus outbreak has taken in care homes is becoming ever clearer. official figures show an extra 29,000 deaths in care homes in england and wales between march and june, compared to the same period last year. the data is exposing just how vulnerable elderly residents were to the virus and will lead to questions about what more could have been done to protect them. we'll have to go back and look at exactly what happened. i bitterly, bitterly regret every single loss of life that we've had. there is new data, too, on how new infections spread through care homes. a survey of around 5,000 care homes in england and wales revealed that more than half have seen coronavirus infections. in those homes, on average a fifth of residents became i