First the headlines ten more patients have died in england after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths in the uk to 21. President trump is extending his ban on flights from europe to include the United Kingdom and ireland. The president has made a decision to suspend all travel to the United Kingdom and ireland, effective midnight monday night. Eastern standard time. The Spanish Government confirms the country will be put under a partial 15 day nationwide lockdown in an attempt to control the virus. Jet2 cancels all flights to spain, the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands with immediate effect. Some European Union countries say they will close their borders to most,
or all, foreigners. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the broadcaster, penny smith, and benedicte paviot, uk correspondent at france 2a and president of the Foreign Press association. Former president. After two years, somebo
The aim of all countries right now is to lower the peak and spread out the number of cases over a longer period of time so a Health Care System will not be overwhelmed. So all governments in europe are trying to reach that goal. I do not doubt that the uk government is also trying to reach that. But like i said, there are concerns about the strategy the uk government is currently following to try and reach that goal. We now have a response to the letter put together by the group of scientists coming to us from downing street. A spokesperson has said ina downing street. A spokesperson has said in a statement, as confirmed by the Scientific Advisory group for emergencies today, as the epidemic progresses we will be instituting oui progresses we will be instituting our next planned interventions soon. We also we will publish the modelling and data considered by the group. We continue to be guided by the advice of the chief medical officer and chief scientific adviser. That is the statemen