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Youre watching bbc news. Im simon mccoy. As the number of confirmed cases of coronavirus rises to nearly 2000, the nhs in england is to cancel all routine surgery and sent home as many patients as possible in order to free up beds. The governments chief scientific adviser said it was reasonable to estimate that 20,000 people could die from catching coronavirus in the uk. If we can get this down to numbers 20000 and below, thats a good outcome in terms of where we would hope to get to with this o...

In the uk at the moment, were only testing in hospitals, where patients are already very ill with the disease, so that so that gives a higher death rate than across the general population. Corrina says, my gp surgery says newborn babies will not receive their immunisation because of coronavirus. Whats the Public Health risk . The advice from Public Health england is that as long as you and your baby are well, you should go ahead with routine childhood immunisations. Its really important to prote...