Page 217 - Testing Capacity News Today

This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Plans for a huge increase in covid testing in britain. Operation moonshot aims to do ten million daily tests by early next year. The idea is to have a test which would be carried out at the location, a bit like a pregnancy test that provides a very quick result, and that would completely revolutionise things. Senior uk ministers will hold emergency talks with eu officials later over the governments plan to ove...

As students scramble to secure university places after the exam fiasco in england, an apology from the education secretary. Chaos for some universities, facing a massive increase in demand from students now achieving top grades. Gavin williamson says sorry for the distress caused to pupils after his u turn in a level and gcse grading. As you can absolutely imagine, i am incredibly sorry for the distress that this has caused for those youngsters and incredibly sort of. This is not something that ...

This is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. A group of armed men have stormed the Stock Exchange in the city of karachi killing at least ten people. Englands education secretary says schools will see full classroom sizes when children return in september, as the government promises £1 billion to rebuild crumbling schools. We do need to ensure that every child is benefiting from the education that we all so richly value. In the uk, current lockdown res...

What do you see for the fall, will it be possibly no return of the virus at all . As i said before here, when you look at an outbreak, its two Dynamic Forces opposing each other. If you least virus to its own devices, it will take off if you do nothing to stop it. If you put into place the kind of things that we talk about, first containment, then hopefully you never get to mitigation, but containment is important, those two forces are going to determine whether youre going to have a big outbrea...

This is bbc news, the headlines President Trump has ended negotiations with congress over a multi trillion dollar stimulus package to help the us economy recover from the pandemic. He says he will only resume talks after the election. A leading democrat says mr trump is putting himself first at the expense of the country. The senior white house adviser, stephen miller, has become the latest of over a dozen members of Donald Trumps inner circle to test positive for coronvirus since the president ...

Zina is a real russian hero. She served in an anti aircraft brigade and fought in the battle of stalingrad. These days, when she is not fundraising, shes knitting and she hasjust finished a pair of socks for captain tom. Zinas socks are now winging their way to britain, express delivery. So if captain tom ever wants to do more charity walking, at least his feet will be warm. Steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. And there is a special programme on captain tom moore, to mark his 100th birthday thats...

This is bbc news, im reeta chakrabarti. The headlines. Nearly two Million People across most of the north east of england are set for tougher coronavirus restrictions from midnight, after a rise in cases. We do not take these decisions lightly. We agree with the local councils that we must follow the data and act, and the data says that we must act now. A similar story in south wales where almost half a Million People in Rhondda Cynon taff will have stricter lockdown rules from 6pm this evening....

Captioning sponsored by cbs odonnell breaking news tonight 100,000 deaths worldwide. A global milestone as the death toll continues to rise here at home. But in new york, coronavirus cases are starting to level off, t d for the first time, the number of patients in the i. C. U. Declines. But these signs come with a warning. As encouraging as they are, we have not reached the peak. Odonnell and these striking images bodies buried on harts island in the bronx. Among them, Covid Patients in a field...

Whit ur m. ;itit u15 u mum a fltr putting in place. I want have been putting in place. I want to put on the record my thanks to those in bolton council, the leader, david greenall, he has been doing an excellent job. The david greenall, he has been doing an excellentjob. The director of Public Health and the chief executive. It has been a difficult challenge in bolton. Thankfully, what we have learnt from this sort of local action elsewhere in the country, is that we dont see large scale countr...

Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. This is a special edition of the situation room. More than 2. 3 Million People are infected with coronavirus and more than 165,000 have lost their lives. Here in the United States the death toll topped to 40,000 mark today and it is continuing to rise that is doubled by the number of fatalities one week ago. 750,000 americans are infected. The country continue to face major setbacks on testing. Virus testing kits cant be used...