At whether the answer lies in a therapy thats worked during previous pandemics. If the government is holding its Daily Briefing on the current virus led by dominic rob lets take a look right now at whats happening at downing street action plan is aimed at slowing the spread of the virus so few people need hospital treatment any one time and that will protect the n. H. S. Is ability to cope at each point weve been following scientific and medical advice and weve been very deliberate in our actions taking the right measures at the right moment were taking unprecedented action to increase the n. H. S. His capacity by dramatically expanding the numbers of beds key staff and equipment on the front line to give people the care they meet when they need it most but some say were instructing people to stay at home so that we protect our n. H. S. And save lives. I can report that through the governments ongoing monitoring and Testing Program as of today 208837 people have now been tested for the virus 51608 have tested positive the number of people admitted to hospital with coronavirus symptoms now stands at 17911 and of those who have contracted the virus 5373 sadly have died our thoughts our deepest condolences a with their loved ones at this very difficult time these figures are a powerful reminder of why we need everyone to follow the governments guidance we must stay home to protect our n. H. S. And to save lives as youll know last night the Prime Minister was admitted to hospital for tests following advice from his doctor this was a precautionary step because he continues to have persistent coronavirus symptoms 10 days after 1st having tested positive for the virus i can tell you that pm had a comfortable night in hospital and hes in good spirits hes still in hospital under observation hes been given regular updates on developments and he continues to lead the government i can reassure the british people that the government remains united in a single overriding priority which is to defeat the coronavirus and see this nation through the challenge ahead in the last week of the Prime Ministers leadership the chance of the dutch of Lancaster Michael gove has explained what were doing to boost manufacturing capability here at home to meet the rising demand for ventilators and other equipment in the n. H. S. Business secretary alex sharma has been setting out what we government is doing to support Small Businesses and yesterday Health Secretary matt hancock gave an update on what were doing to bolster capacity in the n. H. S. Including increasing the number of Critical Care beds if seo is supporting all of these operational priorities. So were deploying the Diplomatic Network right around the world to source and buy ventilators and protective equipment so that we can reinforce the n. H. S. Frontline here at home. At the same time were working with other governments and the airlines to bring home as many stranded british nationals as we possibly can prioritizing our most vulnerable citizens on commercial flights weve helped over 200000 u. K. Nationals come home from spain 13000 from egypt 8000 from indonesia weve also chartered flights from 7 Different Countries bring home more than 2000 british nationals weve repatriated a further 1550 from cruise ships including most recently the cole princess and the zaandam. And for those travelers who are still stuck abroad were doing everything we can to keep International Airports open to keep commercial flights running and to charter flights when there are no other options under the new arrangements that are nouns last week and which have now been agreed with 14 airlines weve allocated 75000000 pounds to support those arrangements weve already had flights back from countries including peru ghana in tunisia and we fixing further flights from India South Africa to pull in the philippines which will fly later on this week so i want to assure people that every arm of government is doing everything it possibly can to defeat the coronavirus and rise to the challenges that it presents us at home and abroad last night her majesty the queen reflected on the National Spirit of unity and resolve that we seeing in our country as well as the collective effort we need to tackle the disease from a heroic doctors nurses and care workers through to those manning the tills at supermarkets and pharmacies those driving the lorries and the buses theyre all worthy of our pros theyre all worthy of our admiration. And a lot know both the Prime Minister and i would like to thank all the and it just all of who they truly heroic work and we owe it to the public to continue to follow the governments advice to stay at home protect the n. H. S. And save lives and on that note im going to pull through 200 for an update on the latest data thank you if i could start with the slide this is about the work that we have all been doing in order to stay at home so what you see i have been listening to foreign secretary dominic kind of give a wrap up aboard things stand with with the Prime Minister who is in the hospital with the same of the latest numbers and even efforts to try to repatriate to make a citizens are nadeem baba has been listening closely taking notes kind of given as the the headlines on this so what were the main lines that you heard and jane. Well michel he was 1st paying tribute to the workers in the National Health service he also gave us an update on Prime MinisterBoris Johnson who spent the night in hospital overnight and a lot of people might be wondering here were going to why eat the message being repeated by the former secretary dominic rob is that Forrest Johnson continues to lead the government he said in fact he said that he was the Prime Minister was taken to hospital in london as a precautionary step because he continues to have symptoms of a corona virus 10 days after he went into isolation. He said that the Prime Minister is getting regular updates and continues to lead the governments dominant rob in fact a few hours ago. At the daily Cabinet Meeting the president Boris Johnson hasnt done much hes been doing that by a video but a lot of people might be wondering well if hes serious enough to be held in a hospital presumably undergoing tests theyve said hes been tested presumably. And he kind of lung condition is he really in a capacity to be leading the government 10 people will be wondering whether in fact he should be taking a total rest right now but anyway beyond dominic. Was giving us a reminder of the figures here in britain which are so huge that over 24 hours new deaths recorded total of 400. 00 and you know it which takes the number of people who die in a hospital which is important from cobbett 1925370 3 deaths known about. It or it could be up as you know we. Are at any day were going to come back to you shortly and you have more information to get that right now were going to go to new york where the governor had her promise getting his Daily Briefing on trying to buy us. In the numbers big question that were looking at now is what what is the curve and weve been talking about cases increase increase increase until they dont when they stop increasing then what happens and the projection models have a number of alternatives. Some suggest basically the curve goes up and then drops percipient asli some suggest is a slight pause at the top some suggest there is a longer a pause at the top which is effectively a plateau. Of fact or again the straight up and straight down persepolis drop which is the peak of fact no one can tell you which will occur they say any one of the 3 options you study other countries youve had a combination of the above we are studying it as we use the projection models from day one to determine its actually what we do how do we set policy and program by following the data. Dr modulus has been working on the numbers working with the statisticians in the projection models and helping us incorporate that into an operational model and jim if you want to just take a moment and speak about the projection models here please great thank you governor as the governor said we have been looking at projection models from the beginning to determine the size and scope and severity in the Governors Mansion this over his briefings weve been working with Many Organizations and using the data Like Imperial College the institute for Health Metrics and evaluation Cornell Mckinsey and others and some of the initial projections. That we 1st saw at the beginning of this was at least 100 up 2110000 beds for patients alone and the peak would come at the end of april those are some of the earliest modeling for Many Organizations that it would be at the end of april around 110000. 00 beds just for covert patients there are other models too that we were tracking one being lower at about 55000. But again peaking at the end of april we follow now that we have a pretty robust data set to go by for the last several weeks. The bottom line there the purple line is sort of where we are tracking today which suggests its a little lower and the question was what could you do to lower those initial projections from 110000 from 55000. 00 so a lot of the activity was we saw which is that its the sions and the folks looking at these types of models said it was going so what activities and actions could you take to aggressively lower that overall number and the answer really was and what the governors been doing was aggressively enforce and enact social distancing to lower the overall number and this number and the current data suggest that that is exactly whats happening and its not settled yet because we are going day by day in the numbers as the governor says has changed a lot over time based on what numbers come in but this could suggest. That we are indeed potentially at the apex or beginning to be at the apex at this moment like the governor has said theres been a range of models 7 days 14 days 21. 00 days 30 days it looks like were at towards the earlier side of that time frame based on the current projections and modeling that weve been looking at. Thank you but you also see on the. You see on the slide where we are now right. And it can still go any way we could still see an increase so it is hopeful but its also inconclusive and it still depends on what we do right these models all have a coefficient of what we do and how successful we are social distancing it cetera and from our Decision Making point of view it doesnt really matter if weve hit the plateau or not because you have to do the same thing if we are plot towing we are proud towing at a very high level and theres tremendous stress on the Health Care System and to say the Health Care System which is at Maximum Capacity today right this is a Hospital System where we have our foot to the floor and the engine is that redline and you cant go any faster and by the way you cant stay at redline for any period of time because the system will blow and thats where we are we are at redline people cant work any harder the staff cant work any harder and staying at this level is problematic. And if we are towing its because social distancing is working so we have to make sure the social distancing actually continues on the relieving the pressure on the Hospital System which is unsustainable at this rate were continuing what we call a surge influx program where we get all the hospitals on the line on a daily basis theyre all doing inventories theyre all doomed to sheets theyre all on the top telephone and were shifting among the hospitals ventilators p p e equipment who has gowns who has masks and that happens on a daily basis that adjustment. Also to relieve pressure on the Hospital System the javits coming on line is a very big deal that is the relief valve for the entire downstate system. The 1100 military personnel started to come in 300 were sent to new york city Public Hospitals to help the new york city public Hospital System the h. And h. System which has been under stress the rest will be going to javits to bring that up and running to full capacity that transition is happening now. That is a Covert Center now started it is non covert its now a Covert Center the majority of the military personnel will be coming in tomorrow and the next day but that jabot center is going to be a major relief valve 2nd the United StatesNavy Ship Comfort the original plan was that that would come in for non coded people the original plan was it would also be a relief valve on the hospitals but not for covert people that it would take all the non coded patients if you will from the Hospital System that was the plan as it turned out theres not a lot of non colleville people in the Hospital System which is a separate story happens to be a good news story. A byproduct of shutting everything down is you have fewer Car Accidents. Crime rate is way down fewer trauma cases so theres not there is not a large non covert population in the hospitals im going to call the president this afternoon and ask him to shift the comfort from non coded to code then we would have javits and the ship comfort as a relief 2500 beds in a 1000 beds as 3500 beds which could serve as a relief valve for the whole downstate Hospital System. That is the only way we sustain this level of intensity in the Hospital System and i understand what the original plan was with the comfort but i understand that there is no preordained strategy here you have to feel it out day to day and you have to adjust with the facts. And we dont need the comfort for non cold cases we needed for cold it if we had those 2 facilities as a relief of that would make a significant difference now bringing on line 3500. 00 beds is no small task north well health is going to help us manage those but theyre going to be staffed by military personnel. Only the military bring in that many people that quickly with that logistical operation and i want to thank the o. D. Very much for their cooperation because god bless the u. S. Military. Theyre listening to Governor Andrew Cuomo the governor of new york obviously york being really baptists that are but its been happening in the last giving it up to a basically you know the fact that we dont yet know if weve hit the curb the peak the apex explaining a lot of those terms also explaining that he is trying to get more bad one form of that being a ship that is right off the coast there the u. S. S. Comfort that has been used for non covert cases he says hes going to make a call to the president to ask that that ship be allowed to take covert cases my colleague gabriel is on has been listening in as well taking notes on what the the governor has been saying so what are some of the lead lines that you heard. Yeah there are a few of them i think we 1st need to go to the numbers number one there are now over 130000 confirmed cases just here in the state of new york. Thats an increase by about 8600 in the last 24 hours that is pretty much what its been trending at the last a week or so so the new number of confirmed cases is about on par of what weve been seeing also significantly he said that the death toll now in the state of new york is 4758 thats up by 599 in the last 24 hours certainly a huge number but put in context that is normally what the trend line has been for the last 3 or 4 days so far about 550 to 650 people a day dying a huge number of people dying certainly tragedy is it only way to describe it but looking at it from the numbers perspective crunching the numbers as youre not seeing the huge spike in daily death toll which is some sliver of hope if you can in a sense that it has seemed like it stabilized and then of terms of course what he was talking about is simply beds and the new york Hospital System is strained thats why at this Javits Convention center you see behind me its being converted into 2500 beds for coverts coverts patients its being run by the military hes also talking about turning that giant a navy ship the comfort which was supposed to be for non covert patients hes saying hes going to talk to the white house hopefully get that hurt or cant cope with patients but the bottom line here is that they are still in need of beds and also the other key point that i heard out of this is that theyre now saying looking at the data new york it could be interesting the peak right now meaning the worst of it right now does that mean its over far from over the worst is still yet to come although previously it said it could be the end of april now theyre saying the worst of it could be this week based on what the state Health Officials there say that moment. Talk about needing hospital beds and space did you catch the part where he said that theyre seen because the state is not officially on a lockdown but on officially on a lockdown theres theres not Car Accidents and other