This virus from spreading. As it gets into your body by breathing it in or through your eyes and mouth, the best thing to do is wash your hands regularly and properly for at least 20 seconds. Catch colds and sneezes in a tissue and avoid touching yourface. Sneezes in a tissue and avoid touching your face. The two sneezes in a tissue and avoid touching yourface. The two main symptoms of coronavirus to look out for other continuous dry cough and oi for other continuous dry cough and ora for other continuous dry cough and or a fever. If you are sneezing a lot, got a runny nose or a headache, you may be ill but you have probably as the coronavirus has not got coronavirus. So how high a swept across the globe, fever is a coronavirus one . And what the ability to know exactly exactly is a continuous dry cough . Where it is has become the crucial key to stopping it. Well, it is when you cough and there is no mucus of phlegm, basically no we have a simple message for all countries, gui substance and not issue. And test, test, test. This is not the odd and there, it has to be regularly for other reason. It clearing your throat or some countries have really cracked how to do this. South korea, with its drive smoking. So how high a fever is a through ten minute tests, is held up as a model coronavirus fever . Well if you have one, you will know about it. For others to follow. Technically it is a body temperature but many countries are of more than 37. 8dc or 100 struggling to test at scale. In the uk, testing is having to be limited, the cost to infrastructure and the time of the test taker fahrenheit. But if you have not got all holding up the battle a thermometer, basically you will feel hot and your chest and back be against the disease. Hot if someone touched you. If you have either of these symptoms and you need to stay at home for seven days. And if you live with other now, there are dozens of efforts people they need to stay at home for going on around the world to try at least 1a days. But if your and solve this. Symptoms get worse or they do not come away, if you live in the uk then you need to contact the online and jane copestake has been looking at one close to home in west london. In hs 111 coronavirus service. If around the world, companies you live abroad then call your local and increasingly individuals are racing to find Ways Healthcare provider. Washing your to accurately test people for the coronavirus. Hands often and for at least 20 the situation is changing daily, if not hourly. Secondsis hands often and for at least 20 seconds is vital in helping to stop we simply dont have mass testing the spread of coronavirus. Not sure available for the population now how to . Here is how and make sure and theres a big effort you watch until the going on to try and get that in place as quickly as possible to be able to manage this. Were in negotiations today to buy a so called antibody test, as simple as a pregnancy test, which can tell whether you have had the disease. There are two types of test being worked on. Diagnostic tests, which identify people who currently have coronavirus, and antibody tests these look for antibodies in the blood to see if a person ever had the virus in the system and if they did, when. The diagnostic tests are primarily based on a technology called pcr. This is a standard molecular techniques that identifies the genetic material of the virus from a throat or nose swab. We always get asked about testing. You saw the cbo out there, now it is all systems go, lets look forward. The responsibility will be with us, but also with them, because as we get knowledge about new testing we will alleviate the anxiety that we have in the world. Special emergency use authorisation from the American Food and Drug Administration has enabled 2 companies to ramp up commercial testing efforts in the us. One is Swiss Company roche, which uses its clovis machines already in many hospitals across the country to increase the amount of people who can be tested at once. The other is Thermo Fisher which uses its applied by a system pcr insurance. The company aims to produce 5 million tests for these machines by early april. But it is notjust Big Companies getting involved in testing efforts. In west london, a community of open source scientists, engineers and microbiologists working out of shipping containers in the open cell bio village are trying to help. There are 70 shipping containers here with labs looking at a range of biotech challenges from personalised medicine to dna sequencing, to Bio Electronics and biomaterials. Its shared Molecular Biology Lab has been transformed to experiment with expanding Testing Capacity while also designing a portable lab solution built out of a shipping container that could be easily transported. Were trying to use these alternate methods to speed up the testing kit because in order to test large populations, we need to be millions of covid i9 testing kits. A Us Company Company has donated two of its liquid handling machines to the lab for their work. These plates can test up to 96 samples at a time. These are pcr diagnostic tests like the ones we saw with other companies. These open source rather than proprietary and they say to £10 per test. Here in the uk, having is really about getting into that nhs pipeline, being able to augment someones existing pathology department. And being able to say, look here is the molecular allergy kit. And being able to say, look here is the molecular biology kit. The same one person could do 96 tests when they are doing one anyway. If it receives regulatory approval, lab could theoretically be set up with just three machines inside a shipping container. As i was being able to augment existing pathology labs around the country, a shipping container set up could help people in places with far less access to medicalfacilities. They say it is only useful for the uk but it will definitely be useful for other countries. It can also be something that can be reused in case anything like that happens again. There is also a long term that will be there really. There are other test being developed in the uk. The university of leicester is working on a facemask test using money from Research England and partnering with the nhs to reverse a test using thought tuberculosis. By wearing a facemask for 30 minutes with 3d printer trips inside, it can show whether the person is breathing out the virus. Sciences at the university of oxford say they have developed an ultrasensitive test that can work in just 30 minutes. They say it doesnt need the kind of machine used in the other tests and could be deployed to rural or remote areas quickly. They also say its sensitivity means it can detect if someone is in the early stages of the virus which could help slow down transmission. Detecting the virus in the early stages in an asymptomatic carrier could indeed be Game Changing in halting its progress. Getting more tests out to as many people as possible as soon as possible could provide the data needed to accurately track the virus. That wasjen, and it will be fascinating to see how that story develops. Pretty quickly, i would imagine. Now, with countries around the world battening down the hatches and locking down huge swathes of the population, everyone is having to make a plan for how theyre going to live through this. Technology will play a massive part, and Stephen Beckett has been meeting the pop up groups who are trying to do their best. Following in the footsteps of china and other countries around the world, many people in the uk are now being asked to stay at home or self isolate entirely, particularly, if they are in an at risk group. That isolation poses its own challenges from getting access to the basic necessities to looking after your mental health. Well, in the last week, pop up online communities have appeared to try and help solve some of those problems. This is the covid mutual aid network. Each one of those pins is a local group pledging to help people in their community isolated by covid i9. And believe it or not, just a few days ago, none of them existed at all. In less than a week, the movement has snowballed into an entire improvised volunteering infrastructure. Im so surprised by how much it has grown since then. Now there are more than 7000 or 8000 local people involved. Every single ward in london seems to be covered in a Whatsapp Group where folks are looking to volunteer or connect with other people who need help so it is phenomenal. At the moment, the real heart of all of this is something quite basic it is groups on whatsapp. These are just a few of some of the ones ive joined in the last few days and already theyve got hundreds and hundreds of messages from people offering their help in trying to get involved. Obviously, this isjust around me but im told similar groups are cropping up all across london and in some places around the uk. Beyond whatsapp, groups are using open access tools like google docs, sheets, and forms to bootstrap a whole volunteering infrastructure out of nowhere. All that organisation is essential if the groups are going to reach more people in the community who may not be looking for support online. It is about 9am and im in an estate in Central London waiting for a few members of the local group. They are planning to flyer every single house in the estate this morning. The idea is if anyone needs help, some suppliers brought to the door someone to talk to for a bit of support, and they know they have someone they can call. I think this is a really scary and anxious time, but i think the best way forward is everyone coming together and what an amazing time to discover your neighbours. In this time when we going to be shut up in our neighbourhoods. I think its grown so quickly because, actually, everyone feels at a bit of a loss of what to do and how they can help right now. I think it is kind of thinking, well, we feel 0k perhaps, but what about the others who are struggling. Social media has pros and cons, this is why massive pro that we can now unite online. Given social distancing, we can now co ordinate and plan remotely and get together and also give each other support. Its really important that we dont feel isolated at the moment, although we are physically. Actually connecting via social media and bringing the Community Together is really helping to combat loneliness. The wider group are clear to point out that they are not medical professionals, nor is it an official charity. This is a volunteer Community Effort trying to do small things to help. Does that mean the goodwill could be exploited 7 i think it is still a little bit tricky and dangerous at times because the wrong messages can be sent, and we are struggling with that a little bit as well. Some misinformation or fake news being passed around which is just not helpful. It is such early days for projects like this, so it is not clear yet just how much impact pop up volunteering communities could have. But done safely, it feels to me like a good idea and a world and some welcome good news. That is it for the short cut of click this week. The full version is on iplayer and waiting for you right now. Dont forget you can always find us on social media, and more than ever these days for obvious reasons. Why not get in touch and tell us what you are doing to get your self through this current situation. You never know, we might even put your suggestions on our. And if you are stuck for something to do while you are working at home, check out our message massive back catalogue on iplayer and you can back catalogue on iplayer and you ca n co nta ct back catalogue on iplayer and you can contact us on facebook, instagram and twitter as well at bbcclick. Thanks for watching, be 00 12 12,189 4294966103 13 29,430 safe and we will see you soon