andrew preston from the department of biology and biochemistry at the university of bath. very much for your time again. just before we get into the viewers questions, though, chris, iwant to ask you about a story we're carrying today where doctors have accused some hospital managers of trying to silence them when they raise concerns about personal protective equipment. bbc newsnight has found the doctor's association in the uk has warned that stopping doctors speaking out about risks and speaking out risks a culture of fear and self—censorship which could ultimately threaten patients' safety. what's your reaction to this story? well, i think there were always two sides to a story, and i thought it was slightly unfortunate, to be frank, that newsnight, but also the news bbc news online story that's been covering this today haven't got the other side of the story. and the other side of the story is that obviously nhs trust managers that we represent will want to hear concerns. and as far as i'm concerned, there is no attempt to stop people speaking out. but i can see why peo

with me is dr andrew preston, a specialist in infection biology at the university of bath here in englandsed in san diego in the us. a warm welcome to both of you. let‘s go straight in with the questions. let me ask this one first of all to andrew. this is from an e—mail question, no name but we have had it by e—mail. my wife and i have to shield because we have underlying health conditions. nobody approaches the house except the delivery of essential items. with the relaxing of lockdown rules, would you advise whether ourjobbing gardener can visit the premises, providing he doesn‘t come into the house and the two metre social distancing recommendation is adhered to? that sounds pretty reasonable. as long as it doesn‘t come into the house then you should be able to keep easily been self isolating. you just need to be aware that anything that the person touches, even gate handles, door handles, could be contaminated, so door handles, could be contaminated, so you need to be really careful about that. and then of course one of the issues might be if the gardener were to have an accident on

coronavirus to chris hopson — chief executive of nhs providers — and dr andrew preston — from the university of bathwelcome to bbc news. i'm annita mcveigh with the latest developments on the coronavirus outbreak. unions representing teachers and school staff will meet the government's top scientific advisors today, as they demand reassurance over the safety of opening schools in england next month. some teachers have expressed concern that social distancing will be difficult to implement and have questioned whether staff should be given ppe. a road map setting out how wales could lift lockdown measures will be published by the country's first minister later. mark drakeford will explain how restrictions on day—to—day life, schools and businesses could begin to be eased. nhs workers who've treated coronavirus patients should receive the same long—term mental health support as soldiers returning from conflict. that's the call from a leading psychiatrist who says front line medics are at high risk of developing post traumatic stress disorder. and in australia, restaurants, cafes and shops can now open

i'm joined now by dr andrew preston, an infectious disease researcher from the university of bath. thankhe hopes for a cure, what are your thoughts on remdesivir, blood plasma, are you hopeful?” your thoughts on remdesivir, blood plasma, are you hopeful? i think it isa plasma, are you hopeful? i think it is a combination therapies that are likely to be needed, treatments to individual patients. i think each time we get some sort of treatment available, even if it is not what sort of most people would consider a cure, that is going to certainly help. are there any out there, as you scan the horizon, that you think the audience should feel encouraged by? we have got large number of countries working on this, the chinese are couple of months ahead, given they had their first expense of the virus a couple of months ahead, have they got anything positive to offer? everything is being thrown out this. u nfortu nately, being thrown out this. unfortunately, drugs have a high failure rate. remdesivir was actually developed really is a treatment for a bowler and despite showing high promise in lab

now to tell us more is dr maria loades, a senior lecturer and clinical psychologist at the university of bath teams, hard drives are to separate from ourfamilies teams, hard drives are to separate from our families of teams, hard drives are to separate from ourfamilies of origin teams, hard drives are to separate from our families of origin and spend more time with our friends and those things are what is particularly curtailed by physical distancing measures so we are in a situation where young people are at home with their families, very intensively, and they are not able to see their friends in the normal way that they do. that is really very difficult for teenagers, particularly, who are particularly prone to feeling the impact of not seeing theirfriends. prone to feeling the impact of not seeing their friends. so how much of an inadequate substitute then is social media contacts? we don't know for sure. we have never really investigated that. what we think and what young people are telling us is that it makes up to some extent for not seeing their friends in that it makes up to some exte

university of exeter medical school. he's a former infectious disease doctor for public health england. dr pankhania joins us now from bathctor, is the uk now testing properly? no, no. no, not at all. i'm so sorry to be saying that in such blunt terms, we cannot test without contact tracing, and the two have to be conducted together. furthermore, we need a strategy of who you are going to test, and how you are going to test. so there are a numberof you are going to test. so there are a number of hurdles. furthermore, to say that we are testing, when actually, the tests have gone out in the post, is not the same as having tests in the laboratory done today. they are in the post. that's not testing. so, the attention on the figure of 100,000 is not worth it? it's not. because what we need to do is horses for courses. in other words, we need to test where needed, and as much is needed, rather than have an arbitrary figure of 100,000, and we need to identify who are the highest risk people, and test them first. test them properly. contact trace all of those positive results. the government present a defence to that would be t

bath provides independence with peace of mind. ♪ >> we will be today terminating our relationship with the world health organization. i will issue a proclamation to better secure our university to suspend the entry of certain foreign nationals from china who have identified as potential security risks. i am directing my administration to begin the process of eliminating policy exemptions they give hong kong different and special treatment. >> bret: the president talking about china, china's relationship with hong kong and relieve the tensions increasing between the u.s. and china. back with the panel. chuck, significant ratcheting up? >> i think so. i think it's a real watershed at least in symbolic terms. the details haven't really been revealed. they are lumping hong kong back together with the rest of mainland china and kind of aggregating this to track approach the united states had to customs and tariffs with that territory on the basis of the belief that china has reneged on its commitment. it's a huge moment and it has implications for all sort of things including the future of taiwan and china has until about september to fill in the blanks on its policy change. it's