Now on bbc news, click. The race to make more ventilators. Robots on the frontline. And how to look sharp on a digital date. This week, the uk went into lockdown over the continuing coronavirus crisis. We were told to limit all of our activities and stay at home. This comes as the World Health Organization says the pandemic is accelerating across the globe. Hospitals everywhere are facing a shortage of equipment, including ventilators. This life saving equipment helps patients to breathe in the most critical cases when their lung function fails. The uk currently has around 8,000 ventilators in the country, but needs many more. So, how do we urgently get access to more of these machines . Can we manufacture more of them in this country . Jen copestake has been looking at some of the possible solutions. The uk government has put a call out to big businesses to help manufacture new ventilators. Already, dyson have answered, saying they are hoping to start production on 10,000 machines by
Amid growing criticism, the uk government promises to increase the number of tests to the hundreds of thousands within weeks and well have the latest from the us. The number of confirmed cases there has passed 200,000. Welcome. We will report on the us and uk shortly. But we are starting in mainland europe. Europe is now the continent hardest hit by the coronavirus new figures released today show that covid 19 has now killed more than 30,000 people. With three quarters of those deaths occuring in either spain or italy. Across europe almost 460,000 have been infected with the coronavirus. And just take a look at the pictures from madrid today the streets continue to be virtually empty as the impact the spanish governments even more stringent lockdown have come into effect. From monday all nonessential work was halted, with the nation coming to a virutal standstill and with good reason. The death toll continues to slow in the nation, but that much needed drop in the curve is yet to come.
As a matter of life and death. Italy mourns the thousands of victims of its coronavirus outbreak, as some question whether doctors have been given the necessary equipment. Spains coronavirus deaths rise by more than 800 in 2a hours, while france sees a 17 rise in the number of cases. And a warning for uk business that more than 800,000 companies are just weeks from going bust. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. The uk Health Secretary, matt hancock, has called on hospitals in england to use any spare lab capacity to test more nhs staff for the virus if they are self isolating and want clearance to return to work. The government has been criticised for being slow to test Health Workers, with only 15 of kits reserved for staff. Here are the other main developments. At the new temporary nhs Nightingale Hospital in east london, officials have revealed it will need 16,000 staff to
News with ben brown. The headlines. The british Prime Minister sends a letter to every household in the uk warning that the Coronavirus Crisis will get worse before it gets better. Ministers say the public should prepare for a significant period of social distancing. I wish i could predict when this will end but it is vitally important that, at the moment and for weeks ahead, that people maintain the strict social distancing guidelines that have been laid out. 10,000 people in italy have died from the virus the biggest death toll in the world but its Health Minister hopes infections have now reached their highest level. I believe that we are living in the peak of this epidemic. I believe in one weeks time, maximum ten days, we will see a drop, a significant drop of positive cases. Spain is to introduce even tighter limits on who can leave their homes as it announces a new Record Number of deaths in the past 2a hours. In the uk, government commissioned trials for possible treatments beg
Now on bbc news, its time to click. The race to make more ventilators. Robots on the frontline. And how to look sharp on a digital date. This week, the uk went into lockdown over the continuing coronavirus crisis. We were told to limit all of our activities and stay at home. This comes as the World Health Organization says the pandemic is accelerating across the globe. Hospitals everywhere are facing a shortage of equipment, including ventilators. This life saving equipment helps patients to breathe in the most critical cases when their lung function fails. The uk currently has around 8,000 ventilators in the country, but needs many more. So, how do we urgently get access to more of these machines . Can we manufacture more of them in this country . Jen copestake has been looking at some of the possible solutions. The uk government has put a call out to big businesses to help manufacture new ventilators. Already, dyson have answered, saying they are hoping to start production on 10,000