pandemic to cancel the very organization that the hot secular state for health is in charge of asks me to ask the question if public hell england isn't fit for purpose the head of the public health england eventually is the 2nd state for health and social care do so you know those are the questions to ask also furthermore this is the wary painful bit when the kind of mix starkey and of course we could not do the test and trace because we were under-resourced and we didn't have the capability to do it but we went ahead and rested as time worrying amount in testing and contact raising. by products of lies if that same money had been allocated to public health in berlin and told. do it get on with it create create a system nation lite i think really been done and could have been done well for some reason since march public health england was by us you're right in saying that the testing was slow to get started there was slow in getting the capability but it's plenty of testing in the u.k. going or no relative to other countries so why is there still a problem when there's a capability of testing it is that the tracing in the of th

given are unacceptable, and clearly there is much more work that needs to be undertaken with public health englandealth bodies in those particular local areas and, you know, as a government obviously we work with public health england to surge where there is demand in local hotspot areas, and we continue to do that. all there is a need, obviously, to grow capacity and increase capacity, that is something that has taken place every single day. you've also mentioned about people not getting access to appointments, booking slots. more and more booking slots are coming on stream every single day, more home testing kits are being issued every single day by public health england and it's right that that happens at a local level, it has to happen within the community, and also in terms of getting access to testing, driving to locations, the majority of tests are available within a ten mile radius. now, it seems to me that there'll be extreme cases where people can't get to test locations within that radius, but that doesn't mean that public health england are not working night and day to boost capacity a

the observer leads with the contents of a leaked public health england report which suggests covid isived parts of the country. following the blockade of newspaper printing plants by extinction rebellion today, the sunday telegraph claims the pro—environment group could be treated as an organised crime group by the government as part of a crackdown on its activities. that story also the lead for the sunday times, which tells of a cross—party rebuttal of extinction rebellion‘s latest action, and the resulting political consensus on the need for both freedom of speech and freedom of the press. the mail leads on its interview with the uk's chief brexit negotiatior, lord frost, who's told the paper britain "will not blink", ahead of crunch talks next week with his eu conterpart, michel barnier. brexit also the lead for the express, and borisjohnson‘s warning to the eu that it must be realistic about what brexit means, insisting: oursovereignty is non—negotiable. and the sunday mirror features harry and meghan‘s deal with netflix. there are suggestions the couple are in talks over a film a

corby in northamptonshire is one of the places added to public health england's covid watchlist as ana of concern. corby borough council's leader, tom beattie, says he wants to avoid a local lockdown. i think it would be very damaging. it would affect business confidence, it would affect the ability for local businesses to get back on their feet after having spent time in lockdown already, and it would be a knock to the confidence of people in the town if we had to go in lockdown again, so i would want to avoid that very much, and we do see it as a damaging thing and we are trying to avoid it. and we'll find out how this story and many others are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30pm and 11:30pm in the papers. our guests joining me tonight are political commentator jo phillips and nigel nelson, the political editor of the people and sunday mirror. the latest government figures show there were 1,813 new confirmed coronavirus cases across the uk in the latest 24—hour period. as you can see, the rate is continuing to slowly rise with the average number of new cases per day in the

working hand in glove with local authorities to get testing done, working hand in glove with public health englandrvices. i am surprised by what she says about the testing unit at hull university, but i will certainly ask test and trace to give her a full information, but everything is being done to enlist and mobilise the expertise of local government to get the testing done. many people are concerned that this dominant focus on covid for people who need nhs treatment for other treatment will be pushed back. can he assure us and make sure that the health secretary gives a priority to communicating the progress of dealing with the backlog in the surgeries as you go through the winter period? of course we must do everything we can to ensure that our nhs is not overwhelmed with covid cases. it is when you have our covid crisis, a booming cases, that he rightly points out that other needs, other cardiac, cancer cases are pushed off. that is completely wrong and that is why it is so vital now that we suppress the virus and drive the rate of infection down and stop a boom in cases. the prime minister's

he is now embarking on a risky, distracting restructuring of public health england in the middle of ary mps like to blame public health england because it's such rotten luck that these decent, ha rd—working, competent ministers are always let down by the people who work for them, but is that the reality that this will sack morale and sack focus and should wait until the end of the pandemic? ifind it astonishing that his statement did not make a single reference to this bureaucratic reorganisation in the pandemic. it describes scrapping phe... will the prime minister now set out when the inquiry will happen? there are sometimes when you have to move and make changes to try to make sure that our systems are working as effectively as possible and critically, to bring together the different parts of the infection response. it needed to be brought under single leadership. several mps wanted to ask about the test and trace system. he still hasn't addressed the performance of circle, who have failed to trace 40% of contacts and apparently didn't even have contact details for over two and a h

this is an issue that has involved the club come the efl, public health england and the council as wellin other clubs will be looking to see what happens here but also there is a financial impact of this because it is notjust leyton orient that are affected we are the understand plymouth and argos town have had to find some test of their players and staff to check their situation and that is a course they have to stomach, with leyton orient, the initial tests were actually funded by tottenham hotspur ahead of the fixture tomorrow. but leyton orient are having to find additional and extensive test of their playing staff and backroom staff to check just how widespread coronaviruses of the club. we were starting to see crowds coming back to some fixtures, however, with the latest government announcements, do you think we'll see a return to no crowds again? well, that is a very real prospect. it would be a significant blow to support if the government do put the bra kes support if the government do put the brakes on that plan roll—out of fans to support from the 1st of october, but we are h

give an unacceptable and clearly there is much more work that needs to be undertaken with public health england, this idea of massively expanding testing capacity to millions a day and yet here we are in september, they are struggling to turn around the existing capacity, just as schools and universities go back in the autumn and winter sniffles are likely to be in the air. the demand on the system likely to crank up. massive challenge coming for the government in terms of meeting its promises and for all of us trying to lead to something approaching normal lives. and there was a test last night for the government over brexit in the house of commons? yes. the latest discussion around brexit, the noise is returning, this controversy over the government wanting to put in place to safeguard as it sees it, to ensure trade around the uk, the different nations of the uk, can ta ke different nations of the uk, can take place seamlessly after the end of the transition period which runs out at the end of this year and the uk 's trading with the eu under different terms. hugely controversial, plenty say

we are in a situation where we are being watched quite closely by public health england and the department additional help and support if we need it, but at this point in time, we are yet to see the rates translating into additional hospital admissions or situations in care homes. the places added to england's public health watch list are leeds, south tyneside, corby, middlesbrough and kettering. in other areas, restrictions are being eased — in greater manchester, except bolton where infection rates are still high, and west yorkshire and lancashire. skating rinks and bowling alleys will be allowed to reopen on tuesday in these areas in line with the rest of the country, but there will still be a ban on social gatherings. it is social gatherings of a different type in universities that is causing concern for government scientific advisers. they believe that the beginning of the autumn term will almost inevitably lead to significant outbreaks. the fact that many students will not show any symptoms will make those outbreaks more difficult to pinpoint and they believe the biggest risk will co

corby in northamptonshire is one of the places added to public health england's covid watchlist as an area of concern. corby borough council's leader, tom beattie, says he wants to avoid a local lockdown. i think it would be very damaging. it would affect business confidence, it would affect the ability for local businesses to get back on their feet after having spent time in lockdown already, and it would be a knock to the confidence of people in the town if we had to go on lockdown again, so i would want to avoid that very much, and we do see it as a damaging thing and we are trying to avoid it. why do you think corby has been put on this watchlist? it is because the incidents in corby have risen and they have been rising for the last couple of weeks. this week we will put on a watchlist by the government because the case numbers have actually increased to the position where the government now consider us an area of concern, and there is still some time for us to improve the situation before we need to move to what would be the most draconian sanction — a lockdown. and we'll find ou

the place is added to public health england's watchlist —— the places added to public health england'sllowed to re—open from tuesday, in line with the rest of the country, but there will still be a ban on social gatherings. in social gatherings of a different type in universities, there's causing concern for government scientific advisors. they believe that the beginning of the autumn term will almost inevitably lead to significant outbreaks. the fact that many students will not show any symptoms will make those outbreaks more difficult to pinpoint, and they believe the biggest risk will come when students head home for the christmas break. they are going to be travelling potentially to other parts of the country which may not be necessarily seeing outbreaks at that point in time and, of course, they might be carrying infection with them and may potentially infect more elderly relatives who may be more severely at risk. the scientific advisory group sage says wider—scale testing is needed. it also says universities should consider providing special accommodation on campus to isolate st

our local public health teams, both in local government and in public health england, have also doneot contacted 417,000 people in the last four months entirely through local action, we need both the national and local, and what we are seeing increasingly, particularly in areas like bolton, oldham, leicester, blackburn, real collaboration between local leadership teams at the national test and trace and bio—security teams. the national test and trace and bio-security teams. nevertheless, the mobile laboratories were handed over to g4 the mobile laboratories were handed overto g4 s, the mobile laboratories were handed over to g4 s, not to local authorities. you mean the mobile testing sites? in order to be able to move them so that we have flexibility. we want to come on to tracing and contact tracing at the app, butjust to return briefly to the question of the turnaround, the target you are given by the prime minister is a 24—hour one, 24—hour turnaround, the figures you committee to us with the next day. can you give those what the performance of this of them has been in the most re

english football league say they are aware and are awaiting the outcome of discussions between public health englandat if orient are unable to field a team for the third round fixture against tottenham, the game would be awarded to spurs, because scheduling makes it almost impossible to rearrange. in a statement, orient said they had also informed their three most recent opponents in the league. the players who tested positive are self—isolating, but the club has confirmed that the stadium and training facilities will be closed until further notice. hashtag united reached the second qualifying round of the fa cup after beating soham town rangers 4—2 on penalties. essex—based hashtag were set up as a youtube team in 2016, joining the non—league system in 2018. jesse waller—lassen scored the equaliser for hashtag in the 85th minute and he was back again to score the winning penalty as well. the non—league side play in the essex senior league, part of the ninth tier of the english football league. how they will be happy with this result! phenomenal stuff there. tammy beaumont‘s half—century helped engl

the city is expected to be added to public health england's weekly watchlist.h blake is leader of leeds city council and chair of its outbreak control board. what are the concerns when it comes to this area? we are monitoring rates every day, and what we're seeing in leeds is probably similar to other places. there's a creeping rise the number. what's really interesting for us is it's not those original community outbreaks. this is a rise across the city and all different wards across the city, particularly of young adults from all communities. there has been a change, and what we want to do and anticipating we will be put on the watchlist tomorrow. i wa nt to put on the watchlist tomorrow. i want to stress there haven't been any further restrictions at the moment, but we're very keen to get the message out and reinforce our messaging. people do need to be really vegan and —— really vigilant. ona really vegan and —— really vigilant. on a regular basis about keeping safe, keeping your distance, handwashing and making sure there is that real understanding of the

the guidance has been developed with medical and scientific experts and public health england and followsth the education sector. the recent letter from all four uk chief medical officer is which emphasise the low risk of long—term harm from covid—i9 due solely to attending school in comparison to the high risk of long—term harm from not attending school. particularly for small vulnerable children and young people. has i hope, given parents extra assurance that we've a protective measures in place. our pupils are returning to a safe environment and an environment they will gain so much from. as they returned mr deputy speaker, pupils will be capped and older children will be capped and older children will be capped and older children will be encouraged to distance wherever possible. as a minimum this will keep homeroom and colleges separate. this is in addition to the overprotective measures such as an enhanced cleaning and handwashing. we also advise our pupils in secondary schools should wear face coverings and communal areas if there is a local lockdown in place u nless there is a loca

yes, this analysis of public health england behavioural data is actually very interesting.t of us who follow the news on a daily basis, not a big surprise. there‘s been an extraordinary shift where when in july and june, most people affected badly, dangerously by covid—i9 were over 80 years old. it is now clear that it‘s the under 40s, and they are infact that it‘s the under 40s, and they are in fact two thirds of the confirmed cases of covid—i9. so that‘s a very interesting shift, and it shows a new really division by age of this terrible epidemic with all the deaths we have seen. and the trauma that we have seen, because it‘s not just about, trauma that we have seen, because it‘s notjust about, unfortunately, dying. you can have after affects of covid for the rest of your life. it turns out that the it was compared to three quarters in the spring. people are taking advantage of the easing. what does this mean for how the uk needs to deal with the virus going forward? because we were all told that perhaps a second lockdown is on the cards. the way the story is on the cards

who had booked to attend the original fixture injune, but the match is yet to be approved by public health englandish lions tour of south africa next year. some very sad cricket news now, the former northamptonshire and england all—rounder david capel has died at the age of 57 following a long illness. he had an operation to remove a brain tumour two years ago. he spent his entire county career at northants, scoring over 10,000 first class runs and taking a67 wickets. he played in 15 tests and 23 one—dayers for england between 1987 and 1990. the ecb today have called him one of the finest all—rounders of his era. he was a very, very popular cricketer indeed. and much admired for his tenacity, really. he was a great competitor, fought really hard, he played at a very difficult time. i think that was the problem with other cricketers notjust david capel but at that time when england were searching for another ian bothem, david was in that category. he was just a fine cricketer called david capel. there were a few like him in that same generation who look back on that time and think they had it quite

what struck me as interesting was that even though public health england is in charge, it sat down toidual surgery it sat down to every individual surgery to request the numbers they need. that's right, and that is how it normally works. obviously they're trying to do something on a much bigger scale this year than what they've done before with the flu, and it makes perfect sense to do so. obviously i agree with everything kate said except just obviously i agree with everything kate said exceptjust to obviously i agree with everything kate said except just to say that it is still early days, it is only the start of the autumn. the government is stating that there will be a vaccine, and we just have to hope they are right. but the problem is all year we've heard big promises from the government about big things with its response and not delivering. so it's hard to feel confident that this will go well. and obviously the warning signs are already there. but the government has a stockpile of this stuff, and it is generating them all the time. sol it is generating them all the time. so i

and another northern city — leeds — was added to the public health england ‘areas of concern‘. 0ur correspondent new university year is approaching for students here in leeds. but it is feared the movement of thousands of students to universities could lead to a surge of coronavirus cases. the virus has much less impact on the young, but they can spread it to other people. i‘m a bit worried about the population, that they might bring something with them because they‘re from all over the uk and america and things, and we don‘t know if they‘re carrying it, so i feel like they need to be tested before they can be allowed back in universities. as long as i limit my interaction and use my mask and stuff, i'm not really that concerned about spreading it to anyone else. but experts believe it is likely there will be significant outbreaks. this is indeed a critical moment. we are seeing the highest numbers of infections, or at least detected infections, in younger people. universities are having to put in place important measures to make sure they have testing capacity and also thinking about how they t

public health england hopes its biggest ever flu vaccination programme will help to reduce the burden — has died aged 98. she was well—regarded in her own right as a reality tv star, dancer and even women's wrestling promoter. her son, frank, paid tribute to his mother on instagram this morning, describing her as "a true revolutionary gal". 7:11am. we are going to look at the weather with matt and that looks lovely. it certainly is. autumn equinox today. this was technically at the last sunset of the summer. let's ta ke at the last sunset of the summer. let's take a look across the rooftops of london because this is of course the last sunrise, as well. it is shaping up to be a lovely day across many parts of eastern half of the uk. let's look at the detail. whilst we have the sunshine across the east, more cloud in the west, mist and fog patches but there are changes ahead. the rain is spreading in across the north and west of scotland, which will bring something much more autumnal during the next 204i much more autumnal during the next 2041 was. even before that arrives across wester

public health england have launched a campaign to help young people and their parents and carers with, a charity aiming to help people understand and protect their mental health. we also have nikki mattocks, who set up a mental health support group for 13—25s when she was 17 years old, after struggling to find other peer—to—peer support for her own mental health issues. thank you both for talking to us. how would you say coronavirus has affected your mental health? how would you say coronavirus has affected your mental health7m how would you say coronavirus has affected your mental health? it has affected your mental health? it has affected my mental health quite negatively. the isolation was quite hard. ifound negatively. the isolation was quite hard. i found not negatively. the isolation was quite hard. ifound not being able negatively. the isolation was quite hard. i found not being able to see mental health services quite hard andi mental health services quite hard and i have actually had to go into hospital a couple of times but now i am doing a lot better. i have the support net

tonight we have new data from public health england, which shows more than 500 new cases of covid—i9 orded in bolton in the seven days up to september ten. that's the equivalent of 192 cases per 100,000. the highest rate in england and a significant increase there from just over 126 cases per 100,000 the week before. now, that's obviously worrying, and going back to what ca re worrying, and going back to what care providers were saying in my report, you can absolutely understand their nervousness, particularly when you remember the high number of deaths in care homes across the uk at the peak of the pandemic. now the government is expected to publish its winter plan for supporting social care in england in the next week or two. that should be shaped by a task force of experts, who provided ministers with their plans, their ideas, at the end of august. any plan will need to come up with ways of ensuring good access to ppe, rapid testing, and also importantly money. i'm told that the current infection control plan, which is operated by councils, is running dry. now, since many, that has

health officials from both durham and sunderland are involved in these investigations with public health englandto someone who has tested positive. health officials are telling people they still had to self—isolate even if they have already had a test and it's come back negative, that's because they say it can take up to 14 days before those symptoms actually show and they say this because of action is needed to reduce the spread of the virus. india has recorded more than 90,000 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours — taking its total above that of brazil, and second—only in numbers to the united states. the country has also now reported 71,642 deaths, the third—highest in the world. the rise comes as the government continues to lift restrictions to try to boost an economy that lost millions ofjobs when the virus hit in march. this morning, metro services have reopened in delhi. julian assange s extradition hearing to the united states, which was delayed because of the coronavirus pandemic, has resumed at the old bailey. the 49—year—old was brought to the central criminal court in a pris

public health england have launched a campaign to help young people and their parents and carers withffer from us today which is afternoon and thank you. there's an offerfrom us today which is built on our good health programme which is about every mind matters. and it's aimed at young people up to the age of 18 and their parents. and it offers people an easy way in to get tips to deal with situations we are into like going back to school and getting a life rhythm back into some fort of normality but that can cause anxieties and as you say, we know from research commissioned that four out of ten children have felt quite lonely in the last six months and the parents and themselves will anxious about the future so every mind matters which is on a website and its an nhs doctor uk website so it's credited by the nhs, it gives pa rents it's credited by the nhs, it gives parents and young people some good tips about dealing with loneliness, sleep pattern that may have gone slightly awry, with anxiety and dealing with life of may be working at home as well and the isolation that can bring. t

i've got some news in from public health england..2 and that's up again so another indication that coronavirus cases arising in the uk. let's also return to the last news that wales has announced new virus restrictions in cardiff, swansea and other places. as cases are rising rapidly, we decided to introduce coronavirus restrictions locally. these will happen in swansea, cardiff and llanelli. these measures reflect the seriousness of this position and we ask people to reflect on their own conduct and avoid unnecessary contact. conduct and avoid unnecessary co nta ct. we conduct and avoid unnecessary contact. we will closely monitor the situation, in glamorgan and review whether these areas also need to come under the local restriction regime at the same time as swansea and cardiff. these restrictions mean that when in force, people living in these areas will not be able to enter or leave the area without a reasonable excuse. they will not be able to meet indoors with anyone they do not live with, for the time being. extended househol

the latest data from public health england shows the largest increase in positive cases is among 20 tos. but there has also been a steep rise in the number of people over the age of 80 testing positive, which is beginning to lead to an increase in hospital admissions. while people will not be able to socialise in groups of more than six from monday, in parts of the midlands the restrictions are going further. from tuesday, in birmingham, and nearby sandwell and solihull, 1.5 million people will be banned from mixing with other households. the onus is on all of us to do everything that we can to make sure that we are abiding by those rules. and those rules, of course, ensure that we can, with close family members and friends, socialise in appropriate circumstances and those rules also stress the vital importance of making sure that children are at school, that students can study at university and that we can work in a covid—safe environment. in scotland, restrictions on two households mixing were expanded into lanarkshire at midnight. and there are still reported issues with testing in

as well as leeds, several other places have now been put on the public health england watchlist — southssendale, corby, kettering and norfolk have all seen an increase in cases. but other places where infections are down have been removed — wakefield, newark and sherwood, and slough. in luton, extra restrictions were imposed after a rise in case numbers, but they were relaxed last month after action by the local council. this included intensive testing of people without symptoms to locate problem areas. we have seen a lot of asymptomatic spread, so a lot of people who don't have symptoms have been tested positive, and that's helped us track those outbreaks and work out how we can try and stop them before they become a wider cluster. but she told me that recent testing capacity problems had affected their efforts. we are asking, just for the next week or so, for people only with symptoms to be tested in luton to make sure we have enough capacity. it is proving to be a challenge for us, as it is for other areas. there is a sense here in luton that things are moving in the right direction

yesterday, has crashed and as you said one third of people cannot register their tests from public health england be playing into the idea we are being led by foals. the sunday telegraph has prince charles talking about 1 the sunday telegraph has prince charles talking about1 million young people in urgent need of help because of the crisis, we are seeing stu d e nts because of the crisis, we are seeing students locked into their halls of residence in self isolation, just as they are going to university. such a miserable time but it is so bad for the young people and the students who are just trying to make the most of their university careers. yeah, and that side, for a long—term point of view young people will be the worst affected by the economic crisis, a crisis unlikely financial crash where a lot ofjobs this time around are not focused —— are focused on specific industries and a lot of those are those that specifically employ young people. prince charles is right to raise awareness. i'm not sure what he can constructively do but it is certainly caught young people are certainly caught young

or march of this year, a coalescence of national health authorities, hospital laboratories, public health englands got together as a cooperative and identified how best to serve the nation in this, then many of the problems that we have seen in terms of lack of data being shared and lighthouse labs, decentralised labs being developed, many of the problem is that they have had would not have transpired. and further, of course, a local system allows local systems that are already in place to be used, both in terms of sampling, getting people tested in their local laboratories and local pathology laboratories and local pathology laboratories being able to develop locality —based testing facilities, but overseen in a structure which allows data to be shared as has been developed in the nhs. 0f allows data to be shared as has been developed in the nhs. of course, that has not happened, so we have had an enormous number of problems. even now, when we are meant to have a world beating service, we clearly do not. to have matt hancock saying to the british population, you will need to travel no more than

the latest data from public health england showed the highest number of detected infections was in youngerthe city was added to a government watchlist of areas with high rates of infection.

other areas added to public health england's watchlist are south tyneside, middlesbrough, corby and ketteringon visiting other households were reintroduced in glasgow. extra testing is being promised in problem areas, but the think tank, the health foundation, is warning that the public don't think official coronavirus guidelines are clear enough, especially about who they can meet and where. simon jones, bbc news. australian officials have extended the strict coronavirus lockdown in melbourne. the city is at the centre of australia's second wave of infections, and has already been under lockdown for 6 weeks. the premier of the state of victoria said the measures would remain until at least the 28th of september. phil mercer reports. melbourne is being extended and will stay in place until the end of the month. the victorian premier is warning that without the strict measures the state is at risk of a third wave of infections. he says a cautious approach is the only way forward. we can't run out of lockdown. we have to take steady and safe steps out of lockdown. to find that covid normal. if

the guidance by public health england, being sent to schools, and from the nhs. speaker, once again, i see the prime minister said it is somebody else's fault, the public. thatovernments own figures they failed on. it will probably be for the nearest test. speaker, i want to start to move onto another very serious issue. stories wehe tragic have heard of relatives dying alone and care homes and people not being about to say goodbye to their loved ones, we have also heard from others who have had to give birth without the support of their partners or their family. the health secretary said the new guidance has been issued but even under that new guidance, many birth patterns will not be ,llowed to join at that moment leaving women in during ,ifficult labors or even worse traumatic and devastating miscarriages, alone, without support. will the prime minister agreed to meet with me and my honorable friend and work with us to ensure that no woman is forced to give birth without the support that they need? >> she is absolutely right to raise the issue. members across

health officials from both durham and sunderland are involved in these investigations with public health englandt with anyone deemed to be in close contact to someone who has tested positive. and health officials are telling people they still have to self—isolate, even if they have already had a test that has come back negative. that is because they say it can take up to 1a days before those symptoms actually show. they say this course of action is needed to reduce the spread of the virus. a migrant has been found in the roofbox of a car at the maidstone services on the m20. pictures show the man climbing out of the container in the car park. police were called after the driver heard a banging noise. the migrant was detained on suspicion of entering the uk illegally. the driver told the bbc that he had travelled on a eurotunnel service from calais. when they got there the security checked over the car. they had the dogs, they put the dog in the car. they had the radar thing and everything, and they said, "you are ok to go. "we will let you through." 0k. so how didn't they detect anything? the de

all of london's boroughs have been added to public health england's areas of concern — which is leadingin the capital. let's speak to dr 0nkar sahota, chair of the london assembly health committee. thank you forjoining us here on bbc news. how worried are you about the trajectory that london is going to follow? of course, it's very worrying that figures are rising, and we are very worried because we know that the test and trace and isolate system is not working, the data we are getting is not from that system, but it's from admissions to hospital, that is available in hospital... these other markers of what's happening. so this is worrying and we need to get testing, tracing and isolation under control. the struggle to get it under control. how efficient is the testing addressing? we know we are not getting enough testing interesting in london. we know the number of swabs taken out every day aren't all being analysed, and i think we'rejust aren't all being analysed, and i think we're just having problems of the nhs app, so the system has broken down, but with any infectious disease pand

as we heard, hospital admissions in england have doubled in more or less a week and in fact public health englandthey are particularly concerned at the number of hospital admissions among older people over the age of 80 or so because the worry was when earlier this month casey started picking up, particularly amongst younger groups, that this would spread across the community to older members of society. then of course you've got the r number which tells you how rapidly the virus is spreading or declining. anything above one means more than one person is being infected. the top of the range is 1.4 and the modellers say the number of infections could be doubling now in less than seven days, so that's the real worry. if you let it get out of control it continues accelerating and that is why each message we are talking about tonight are now being considered —— that's why these measures are being considered. 0ther economies like france and spain have the same problems, france reported 13,000 more cases in the latest days. it's the question of getting the balance right to intervene in good time and of

this ills not is not the advice of public health england and they should get a grip of this immediatelybody will follow it. james murray. schools have become aware of a covid—19 case have been encouraged to take swift action and contact the advice service introduced by public health england. but several primary schools heads have reported the syste m schools heads have reported the system appears to be overwhelmed. can the secretary of state tell me what the average waiting time is between a school contacting public health england and a receive receiving the advice they need?” don‘t have those figures, but i would be happy to look into the specific cases. because the speed of turn around there is very important. my honourable friend and his advisors are right that the virus is not getting weaker bgs but doctors have made progress in the treatment of coronavirus and social distancing means viral loads are less for the cases. can maldives tell he tell me the result of this. my honourable friend represent one of the finest hospitals in the country and the world. the doctors at adam brookes

who had booked to attend the original fixture injune, but the match is yet to be approved by public health englandar. some very sad cricket news now — the former northamptonshire and england all—rounder david capel has died at the age of 57 following a long illness. he had an operation to remove a brain tumour two years ago. he spent his entire county career at northants, scoring over 10,000 first class runs and taking a67 wickets. he played in 15 tests and 23 one—dayers for england between 1987 and 1990. the ecb today have called him one of the finest all—rounders of his era. david was a very, very popular cricketer indeed. and much admired for his tenacity, really. he was a great competitor, fought really hard, he played at a very difficult time. i think that was the problem with other cricketers notjust david capel, but at that time when england were searching for another ian bothem — and david was in that category. he was just a fine cricketer called david capel. there were a few like him in that same generation who look back on that time and think they had it quite difficult. finally, stephen