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From turkey, for example, and what more they are doing to meet demands for hospitals. thank you very much and we will be speaking to the culture secretary 0liver down at 7:30am stop —— 0liver dowden, at around 7.30. tens of thousands of temporary mortuary spaces have been prepared across the uk in response to the coronavirus outbreak. ministers have described it as a precaution rather than a prediction, and say they hope the extra capacity of around 30,000 spaces wont be needed. in the last ...

An organisation representing hospital bosses says ministers should stop making promises they cant keep. the department of health said it was working round the clock to give staff the equipment they needed. new zealands prime minister has said the countrys lockdown will start to ease from next week. at a press conference, jacinda ardern said some schools and businesses will be allowed to open, but social distancing measures will still apply, with people told to stay home where possible. an "aggre...

In the world. the united states has now conducted more total tests than all of the following nations combined — france, the united kingdom, south korea, japan, singapore, india, austria, australia, sweden and canada. new zealand‘s prime minister has said the country‘s lockdown will start to ease from next week. at a press conference, jacinda ardern said some schools and businesses will be allowed to open, but social distancing measures will still apply, with people told to stay home where ...

Tomorrow when parliament resumes in westminster, a lot of the questions are not going to be so much about what the government did or didnt do in the past few months, but what they are doing now, whereas the protective equipment that was supposed to be coming from turkey, what are they doing to ramp up testing to meet 100,000 tests per day by the end of the month? there will still be big questions for the government but they wanted to extinguish as quickly as possible this idea that they had some...

Nationwide lockdown. >> in milan, american student anna engle suddenly found herself caught up in the lockdown. >> i am here in lombardy which was known to be the coronavirus pandemic in the last two months. i want to send a message say to take this as seriously as possible. >> anna wasnt alone in trying to sound the alarm. mattia who lived and worked in new york feared that other countries would soon be suffering just like italy. on march 13th he wrote a column in ""the boston globe"" urging ot...

Importance of social distancing, the importance of staying home. many countries did follow italys lead. in london after initially resisting a lockdown, prime minster boris johnson closed pubs and restaurants and advised citizens to stay home. >> the government has a lockdown enforced. you must stay home. >> france and spain did much the same. even india, with its population of 1.3 billion, decided on lockdown. everywhere, covid-19 was imposing a new reality. >> im in my house all alone. i cant g...

Of the labour comes from overseas and they have temporary accommodation for them. so they will have to go through their own safety measures on social distancing. accommodation can be provided. lets hope we have helped in picking peoples interest. mark bridgeman, thank you very much. lets look briefly at some some other news. the international monetary fund has suggested the uk and the eu "not to add to uncertainty" from coronavirus, by refusing to extend the period to negotiate a post—brexit t...

Tackling the virus? 0h, was that key to your success at tackling the virus? oh, i think it was absolutely key. i mean, the prime minister was very clear that she wanted to move fast and early and that is what she did. and it began with a strategy i think of trying to suppress the curve of the infection but then moved to a strategy of trying to eliminate it completely. why? i guess the buzzword or phrase was flat in the curve, that if you spread out the number of infections, you can stop your hea...

Living people, people that arent going to come back from this. and emma is desperate, like so many whove lost loved ones, for people to follow the rules. over the holiday weekend, many usually popular spaces have been much quieter. but because of the impact of the lockdown on the economy, there are constant questions about when the measures will be relaxed. and at todays government briefing, the first secretary, dominic raab, standing in from the prime minister, said it was still too early. if w...

These are issues that, still, we continue to face, no matter how our government would like to believe and say otherwise. across the uk, frontline staff tell a similar story. at this hospital, near cardiff, one doctor reported nurses preparing for work with four visors between a0 of them. the local health board says they do now have enough ppe. doctors‘ leaders and health care unions have written to the welsh government to say their members fear for their safety. people need answers. we cant go...