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 mid april. But will this be enough, soon enough . Teams of engineers and doctors are also trying to come up with more Immediate Solutions to this problem, which could be cheaper and more portable. We spoke to some of them this week. Most are committed to making
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Pandemic is now more than 150,000, according to the latest figures collated byjohns Hopkins University in the united states. 37,000 have died in the us itself. Italy, spain, france and the uk make up half of the worldwide toll. The World Health Organization has cast doubt on the usefulness of antibody tests for covid 19 which many countries had hoped to use to determine if people have developed immunity to the virus. Who officials in geneva said there was no evidence that having had the virus would guarantee immunity. 847 people have died in british hospitals in the past 2a hours. It brings the total number of deaths tojust over 1a,500. The uk government is setting up a new task force to back the development of a vaccine, but itll be many months before one is available. Now on bbc news,
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British tourists are set to be allowed to travel to European Countries including spain, france and greece without having to quarantine on their return that the motion is carried and they have agreed to nominate Deputy Michael martin for appointment by the president to be taoiseach. Ireland swears in its new prime minister, micheal martin, as the countrys two largest parties, fianna fail and fine gael, form a coalition for the first time. A man who stabbed six people yesterday warned he carried out the attack. As texas and florida reimpose virus restrictions, the us Infectious Disease chief says the nation has a serious problem in its handling of covid 19. India records its highest daily number of new coronavirus cases so far, surging to over half a million. And now on bbc news, audiences from around the world question their leaders on global issues in this edition
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Now on bbc news, its time for 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
Pictures from new delhi. The pictures show what shouldnt be happening right now because the country are supposed to be in lockdown. The Prime Minister announced a lockdown this week. These are some of the countrys Migrant Workers, with less resources , Migrant Workers, with less resources, less ability to deal with the lockdown, who are trying to get out of the country, get out beyond the borders, try to get away on ships orfrom the the borders, try to get away on ships or from the countrys airports. I would ships or from the countrys airports. Iwould be ships or from the countrys airports. I would be surprised if they were to have much luck in doing so. They were to have much luck in doing so. It is a remarkable testament to the fact that even in a country like india where there have been strict rules imposed, you can deal with the fa ct rules imposed, you can deal with the fact that many people might choose to ignore the advice. Every year more than 9 million Migrant Workers move fro