True all of the country a new york smack criticizes the trumpet ministration of the u. S. Record the highest number of coronavirus related deaths in the world. And in other news more taliban prisoners are released by afghanistans government raising new hopes for a delayed exchange deal. And im peter sims with the sport british motor racing legend Stirling Moss has died at the age of 19 that and more coming up later in the program. We start with coverage of the british governments daily updates on the coronavirus situation and this is Health Secretary matt hancock speaking checkers i hope everyone has seen his message of love and thanks to all those who supported his recovery and to the n. H. S. Colleagues whove had for him so brilliantly thomas hospital. I know that they have cared for him as they would kaffir anybody in this country and its one of the things that makes me so proud that the n. H. S. Is there for all and can give its very best to every Single Person and has been able to throughout this crisis i know that all of his thoughts are with those affected by this illness. And of course the government is working constantly through our coronavirus action plan and the aim is to protect life and to protect the n. H. S. Both by slowing the spread of the virus to flatten the curve and by ensuring that the n. H. S. Is always there for you and always has more than enough capacity to meet the demands that are placed on it today marks a somber day in the impact of this disease as we join the list of countries who have seen more than 10000 deaths related to coronavirus the fact that over 10000 people have now lost their lives to this invisible killer demonstrates just how serious coronavirus is and why the National Effort that everyone is in gauged in is so important according to the most recent figures 282003 174 people have now been tested for corona virus 84279 have tested positive across Great Britain the number of people admitted to hospital with coronavirus symptoms is now 19945 and of those whove contracted the virus 10612 have tragically died our sincere condolences are with all of them. With their families their friends their grief is our grief and their stories will not be forgotten on friday i said that staying at home this easter weekend would be a major test of the nations result and im pleased to say that the nation is rising to this challenge i know that for some people this has been extra tough if youre at home with their children if you cant visit relatives because theyre shielding if youre unable to go to church on this most important day for christians your steadfast commitment to following these social distancing rules is making a difference thank you for the part that you are playing in helping to protect lives at this critical time in our nations history but we cant be complacent not when theres so much at stake so please keep going stay home protect the n. H. S. And save lives today i want to provide an update on the work were doing to slow the spread of the virus and to build capacity the latest figures show that in Great Britain we have 2295 spare Critical Care beds up 150 from yesterday so throughout this crisis with all the challenges that weve been dealing with all the operational difficulties and all of the logistics we have always been able to provide the very best of can to everybody who needs it through the n. H. S. At the start of this crisis people said that the n. H. S. Would be overwhelmed and weve seen that and weve seen the risk of that elsewhere but not here and that is because of the action that a huge number of people have taken the incredible work of so many. There is more spec pasty now for Critical Care than the was when corona virus 1st hit our shores and this is before the nightingale hospitals come on stream londons opened and were already in the process of building 6 more around england this critical expansion is partly because we have a Record Number of ventilators 9775 and partly because we have Record Numbers of return is coming back and rejoining the n. H. S. Over 5000 former staff are now back on the n. H. S. Frontline and over 36000 have come forward to enlist and this bolstered capacity has been backed by substantial Financial Support as the chancellor said whatever our n. H. S. And Vital Public Services need during this time they will have but of course theres always more d that must be done so were increasing the amount of p p e and im glad to say that there are now record amounts in the system and we need the right amounts of medicine to and i can assure everyone that were working very closely with the pharmaceutical supply chain and hospital pharmacies so that the right meds and are there to treat people and im glad to see the reassurances that have been provided today that everybody can have the medicines they need in order to get the care that they need. And when we debate the operational challenges we face i want to be transparent about every single one let us not forget that the core measure of energy as capacity which is what matters to you when one when you or one of your loved ones needs it is whether you can get the best catch if you catch coronavirus on that we are succeeding and in fact succeeding more with each passing day i also wanted to provide a brief update on this work on personal protective equipment which is so important for n. H. S. And social care staff i pay tribute to our health and care staff this weekend just like every weekend a giving the very best possible cat of thursday on streets front doors and balconies up and down the country weve seen the esteem with which the whole nation holds our cameras the people who make the n. H. S. And social care what it is and we owe it to them to get them the equipment that they need on friday we published a comprehensive peace plan which is based on everyone using the right people according to the agreed guidelines and daly were delivering millions of items to the front line now i know that the Big Questions also about gallons in the last 2 days 121000 pounds have been delivered around the country and more are going out today and in the week to come so we are working very hard to resolve all of these individual the just tickled challenges its worth saying that the average time for dealing with p. P. Queries has gone down from 6 days in march to an average of 2 and a half days over the past week and since we published the plan last week im delighted that the sheer number of businesses that have come forward to help with our p. P. Effort even over the Bank Holiday Weekend thank you to all of you and to all those who are involved in this enormous herculean effort on p. P. And i know that well see many more businesses coming forward and i look forward to it. Testing of course has a huge role in our response and we have discussed repeatedly testing at these press conferences im pleased to say that 42812 n. H. S. And social care staff and their families have now been tested and as we ramp up our ability to test in large numbers we also need to make sure we have the ability to trace contract contacts just as effectively and so today i wanted to outline the next step a new n. H. S. Out for Contact Tracing if you become unwell with the symptoms of corona virus you can securely tell this new n. H. S. App and the app will then send an alert anonymously to other app uses that youve been in significant contact with over the past few days even before you have symptoms so that they know and can act accordingly all data will be handled according to the highest ethical and Security Standards and would only be used for n. H. S. Care and research and we wont hold it any longer than is needed and as part of our commitment to transparency well be publishing the source code to were already testing this app and as we do this were working closely with the worlds leading Tech Companies and Renowned Experts in clinical safety and digital ethics so that we can get this right i want to thank all of these world leading experts whove been involved the more people who get involved then the better informed our response to corona virus will be and the better we can protect the n. H. S. Her majesty the queen spoke for all of us as she so often does when she said that easter is not cancelled and that we need it now more than ever this is an uncertain easter for so many people at a time when we normally come physically together we must stay apart. It runs counter to every human instincts and every intuition that we possess but we must persevere because if we follow the rules and slow the spread of the virus then each new day will bring us closer to normal life and we can enjoy he says to come safe in the knowledge that when it mattered we did our bit and rose to the challenge and we put our loved ones we put our n. H. S. Staff and we put our local communities 1st so please this easter stay home protect the n. H. S. And save lives im now going to hand over to yvonne to take us through the charts on the information thank you secretary of state we have 4 charts to show today and the 1st one is on the use of transport and on this slide you can see that all forms of transport have reduced greatly particularly. Rail and tube but also as a motivator because have declined recently as well thank you could i have the next night. At this side tell us about the new u. K. Cases and we can see here on the 12th of april that we have had 4 and a half 1000 cases done through our n. H. S. And Public Health in the end offer of testing and now coming on stream increasingly is the drive through through testing of key workers and the n. H. S. Stuff and that is bringing us in 830. 8 yesterday and to today at 838. 00 so an increasing enhancement of the testing capacity. And then on the next slide we can see the people they started about people in hospital beds with covert 19 and here we can see the trend has been increasing and from london but now were beginning to see london stabilizing dipping rising dipping again so probably a state more stable pattern for london but on the other hand and for at Great Britain we do see other regions now beginning to increase particularly the northwest and the yorkshire area as well and the north east so it is very important that the message about staying at home and social distancing is a tear too because we are certainly not past this virus damage yet and then finally on the fine of slide we have the globe of death comparisons and here we can see where the u. K. Is its somewhere in the middle its tracking france its looking at close to the italian trend at the moment but this is still early days we would stress in understanding deaths and we can see where other countries have higher increases in their deaths at the moment so those are 4 sides thank you very much i thank you very much indeed yvonne and if we go to the b. B. C. We got david sugarman. Health record thank you very much. Yes if i may ask about on this day that very positive very somber milestone as you put it of the 10000 that what is your reaction to the comments of one of your own advise of a very Renowned International expert on Infectious Diseases that newark a navy on course of the worst outcome in terms of death toll in europe. Well i think that that that sort of comment merely reinforces the importance of the central message which is that people should stay at home because that protects the n. H. S. And saves lives we get advice from all sorts of experts and we take it all very seriously and we assess it throughout now or the future of this virus is unknowable as yet because it depends on the behavior of millions of people and the Great British public the good news is that so far we have managed to start to see a flattening of the curve because people are following the social distancing measures by and large and also that the core goal of making sure that n. H. S. Capacity is always above the demand for an actress services has been achieved and so i think especially at moments like this when we have reached this this this terrible marca we are thankfully in a position where we are able to support everybody who needs it in the n. H. S. And were able to see the curve starting to come down yvonne i dont know on the International Comparisons of course Different Countries are different size so you need to be measuring at the statistics right in there absolutely and could i say every one of these 10000 more deaths is enough salut tragedy from a virus we didnt know about some time ago but when you get down to the statistics it does depend on how people measure this there are time lags in the deaths and it isnt fair i would stress it particularly it is early days because passions that we saw or perhaps in countries earlier in this may change and were beginning to see that internationally. Thanks very much david unless you want to follow up if i could ask you about the briefing given yesterday with your colleague the home secretary i asked whether it was possible for her on behalf of the government to give a commitment to a date by when deliveries of people he would match whats needed on the front line because every day we get messages from Health Care Workers and others saying they simply dont have whats needed yeah well the the answer is that its impossible because the quest is to get a bright p. P. To the right people on the front line at the right time across many millions of people across the n. H. S. And social care and im glad to say that that effort is moving in the right direction we now have records amounts of p p thats put been put out into the system but until everybody gets the pv that they need then we wont rest and we have we have thousands of people working 247 on this including over this Bank Holiday Weekend because the need and the demand for p p a doesnt stop either so its an enormous effort and i want to actually go out of my way to thank the procurement experts that weve got in the system they dont often get thanks the procurement experts because theyre not on the front line but by god do we need them to make sure that we can get all that p. P. And as i mentioned with gallons which is the. Currently the item thats most in need that weve been making some progress over the over the weekend with more to come next week thanks david out ive got Martha Farley from i. T. V. Thank you Health Secretary a question to you if i may the Royal College of nursing has issued new guidance to its members telling them that if they havent been given the appropriate p. P. And that there is no other way of treating a patient without reducing risk then they should refuse to work rather than compromising their own safety will you apologize to the nurses and indeed the other medical and Health Care Workers who are being put in that impossible position of having to make a decision between whether to offer treatment to a patient or to protect their own personal safety well martha as i said in the previous answer were working night and day to make sure that we get the right people the and actually the thing i want to do is pay tribute to the on believable efforts of a huge number of people to get to the position where we are in now which as i said in my opening remarks is improving but we wont rest until we get there so i. Work closely with the Royal College of nursing on these matters on other things in fact i was in contact with them only earlier today because its so important that we get this right. Martin from sky. Good afternoon question 1st to the secretary of state of the on doyle if i may. Secure state you paint a relative. Of where we are within a moment but there is a very different picture being painted within our care and Nursing Homes i spent a full day in a nursing home the other day in which a full floor had been devoted to elderly patients suffering from coronavirus and i witnessed a flimsy p. P. Over stretched out a lot of illness and unfortunately some deaths of some of the residents and whats been coming back from what i witnessed from the care sector is that they are crying out for tests home owners have been telling me that theyre not getting regular tests for staff and residents but crucially for those being transferred from hospitals to the care sector and they are operating in the dark no tell you what my inbox is anything to go by today the care sector is watching us right now and is desperate for you to tell them that they will get regular tests so they can end this lottery and you give that guarantee to them yes i can nip that is coming and last week we were able to open up testing to the to stuff in care homes throughout this theres been the availability of testing on a clinical basis within care homes as you mentioned and this is an area of incredibly high importance because precisely as youve seen some of the most Vulnerable People live in care homes and especially in Nursing Homes and therefore getting this right is in is is just is so important so i think one of the things that weve succeeded in doing as a as a country during this crisis is recognize. Zing that our cast stuff are on the front line just as much as our n. H. S. Staff are and making sure that we expand that testing capability both to stuff and to residents including this very difficult issue of patients leaving hospital we can we are addressing that and i think that the issues that you raise are incredibly important thank you and John Stephens from the mail and i just on the back yes of course john if you dont mind well go back to nick. Go ahead carol brave telling me that really this now yes or tomorrow whats the time scale that you can arrange regular widespread tests to get into care homes how long will they have to wait for these tests yes so on for the stuff as i said we have made that change already at the end of last week and i