other rucu luff other staff who are our other staff who are going out and working art doing so not at risk to themselves. In the country look on enviously in terms of what the uk has in terms of the nhs, it would seem honest impossible to set something up like this now, 72 years on, but is the nhs at its current funding model sustainable do you think for the future . I think what we need to remember is that the nhs was founded in the aftermath of the second world war, when we were facing huge amounts of national debt. Moving forward i think we really need to think about how we use at this moment, this terrible moment, to build back better, to ta ke moment, to build back better, to take that wartime spirit to think 0k, what do we need to for the next 72 years moving forward . I think in the short term that means how do we respond to the shocks that are going to come on the horizon, a second wave or winter crisis, and then more long term, how do we respond to the future shocks . I think it is also important to remember that our nhs
does fantastically given how relatively little we spend on it. When we look at germany for example, oi when we look at germany for example, or the united states, they are spending much more, both as a Percentage Team dp captive but also Percentage Team dp captive but also per person, and also remembering that the nhs is available to anyone, employed, unemployed, you can access ca re regardless of employed, unemployed, you can access care regardless of your ability to be able to pay. Gdp capita. Care regardless of your ability to be able to pay. Gdp capita. Thank you. A spike of coronavirus cases in the australian state of victoria caused by Hotel Quarantine breaches, has led authorities to enforce localised lockdowns. In melbourne, several suburbs have been locked down, and 3,000 residents from nine Public Housing towers have been put under a complete lockdown after 30 cases were linked to households in the estates. Residents will be forced to stay in for at least five days, possibly longer depending on their coronavirus test results. Stan winford is a legal and Justice System expert at the Royal Melbourne Institute of technology. There are nine Public Housing estates in melbourne, in the north of melbourne, which have been subjected to these lockdowns. They could, with very little notice or no notice rarely to the residents and much of the community was quite surprised. Even our police union seems to have been caught unawares and were asking questions about how that lockdown is to be managed, so its pretty extraordinary scenes. Residents up in the towers of their high rise flats looked down and saw a number of police and police cars below. Many of them dont speak english and are just trying to understand what was happening. It may well be the right response if its necessary for public health, and we have to trust them on that. I think the issue has been, i suppose, the manner
in which its occurred. Some of the responses, when they were so linked to Police Rather than public health, do raise concerns. I think many of the residents perhaps feel a little stigmatised or frightened or unsure about whats happening and with very little notice, theyre going to be locked down for five days and i hope theyll have access to what they need and what their children need, you know, basic necessities, health care, that sort of stuff. Now on bbc news, live sport is returning to our screens, though the pandemic is farfrom over. How has this happened . Patrick gearey has spoken to those at the centre of project restart. For 100 days, football was frozen. This was an earlier thaw than some thought possible. The day the English Premier League returned, 1,115 new cases of coronavirus were reported in the uk. So, how had sport re emerged amid a pandemic . What are the risks and in the strange echoey bubble sport now sits in, what on earth comes next . London, on the morning of monday the 9th of march. Headlines are dominated by talk of supermarket rationing and the coming pandemic. And the culture secretary is being asked if sport can go on much longer. At this stage, we are not in the territory of cancelling or postponing events and i dont expect that to be the case after today. Those words aged within the week. The Cheltenham Festival and liverpool versus atletico madrid
would be the final scenes of sport as we knew it. Tonights premier league game between Manchester City and arsenal has been called off. Arsenal have just confirmed that head coach, mikael arteta, has tested positive for covid 19. Chelsea revealed tonight their squad is self isolating after their winger Callum Hudson odoi tested positive for the virus. I had the virus for the past couple of days. All english and scottish football matches are suspended because of the impact of coronavirus. The masters is off, as is englands cricket tour. The London Marathon is the latest thing to go. The final round of the six nations fixtures are a complete write off. What you have seen over the past 48 hours or so, in effect, is the collapse of the global sporting calendar. The dominoes fell, the Tour De France pushed back. The mens european football championship delayed by a year and biggest of all, the 2020 tokyo 0lympic and paralympic games, postponed until 2021. The chaotic way sport left the stage gave few clues as to its return, but after weeks of lockdown, the first socially distanced steps back were on the wide open spaces of golf courses. Recreational golf, as well as angling and singles tennis were permitted as part of the first loosening of restrictions. A more ambitious path was being plotted by those in power. It was known as project restart. A series of talks aimed at getting professional sport under way, despite the still present pandemic. 0n the 30th of may, we got a big announcement. Today really is a significant milestone. We wont be sitting in the stands
for a while and things will be very different to what were used to, but live sport will be back on our screens next week. The british sporting recovery has begun. Horse racing in england was among the first out of the stalls, here experience of controlling equine disease was useful. And, though the stands remained empty, the sport could resume. We put a good system in place, obviously we have markers on the floor. We are riding with masks. As you know, it is not a contact sport, so we are very much within the guidelines and of course we will be in a fresh open air. The system has been tried in hong kong, australia, america, and well before us and there are no problems. So i am very positive that we can do our sport safely. In the more claustrophobic world of contact sport, things are trickier. So, what do we know about the risks . Well, scientists agree there is less of a risk of catching coronavirus outdoors, compared with indoors. You are at highest risk when you are within two metres of an infected person for 15 minutes or more. And, the disease is thought to be mainly spread by droplets from coughing or sneezing. But the virus is so new, that much remains unknown and there is little agreement on whether or not it can be spread by the aerosol we exhale when we breathe. This model, from a company that makes engineering simulations, shows how running behind someone could be risky. Thats pretty much unavoidable in many sports. There have been cases associated, for example, it is not a sport, but somewhere where people are forced to breathe and thats in singing, in choirs. We know that there have been cases where it looked like the actual act of being in a choir and singing quite loudly helps the virus spread, so i think anything which increases the amount of droplets that you potentially produce as you breathe will increase the risk of the virus transmitting. So i think top, elite athletes, running around a football pitch for 90 minutes, a reasonable amount, if one of them is infected, that they could be breathing out reasonable amounts of virus. There are also concerns about set pieces where players come together, as well as inadvertent spitting and tackles. Communal areas like changing rooms and tunnels could pose problems, especially when the official advice in the uk suggests that Coronavirus Infection levels may still be high. Professor peter 0penshaw is on the governments sage advisory committee. The degree to which social distancing can be maintained obviously varies a lot from sport to sport. Direct Contact Sports are in a different class. I cannot see how that can be done in safety, except with a lot of monitoring, a lot of continuous testing and isolation if anyone
is found to be infected. But it really is very, very different from sport as we know it. This strange and expensive new world was not one all could enter. In scotland, the football season was curtailed, not universally popular and nor was the decision to end the seasons in most womens sports. The early finish of the Womens Super League handed the trophy to chelsea, at the expense of the still chasing Manchester City. Amid the frustration, the chance perhaps to take stock. For me personally it was a tough one. I like to see football as football, not men and Womens Football, so it would be nice to carry on. But i also understand that Womens Football hasnt got the funding that the men have got and we arent supported as well as that. I think this has given us a time now to ensure that we have everything, we have a restructure, we make sure women sports is better coming out of the pandemic then it was going into it. And especially football, there was so much uncertainty before the pandemic. Elsewhere, team sport was restarting. Germany, which had suffered less from coronavirus than many other european countries, allowed the bundesliga to return in mid may. The stands empty, the players regularly tested. Football and in particular the English Premier League, had a template. It was a confidence building proof point that the germans can get there. They can put their league back on the pitch and back on television, and we are interested to see it. They have been through all of the steps that we are going through currently. They have dealt with all of the issues weve been going through. They have managed to convince themselves that it is right to go back, it is safe to go back. And so from that perspective, we can learn from them. The premier leagues approach was shadowed by the second tier championship. It meant bringing things together gradually. Players went from exercising on their own to small groups, to contact training and eventually back to action. Their lives now involve daily temperature checking and twice weekly coronavirus testing. Initially, not everyone was keen. Watfords troy deeney and and Chelseas Ngolo Kante were among those who stayed away from training, but they came back. And the relatively low number of positive cases added to the momentum. Still, british Coronavirus Infection rates remain higher than most of europe, and there is a lag between taking the test and getting the result, which might give the virus a window of opportunity. I think speaking as a scientist, it seems to me very risky indeed. Its possible that by cohorting and having a lot of testing, that the risks could have been minimised, but that involves a lot of social disruption to the lives of those involved in sports and also makes future fixtures uncertain, because we can never anticipate when somebody is going to test positive and then the whole team potentially would have to be locked down. If there were a situation where multiple players and multiple clubs contracted, we would have to take stock of that situation. But what were to create is a very safe system where that is very unlikely to occur. Even before the first game, three arsenal players were unable to train after one returned positive. Proof, perhaps, both of the system working and its potential for disruption. But, by mid june, the premier league could celebrate a goal which had been long in the making. Were back. Football in england re emerged, one team at a time, through tunnels, even car parks into cavernous empty stadiums. Every game on tv, 33 of them free to air. Passion measured in pixels. Fans there in spirit, sometimes in outline, but never in person. This was, for many people, a wonderful relief, the long awaited reward and at the same time, slightly hollow. We miss the people. Its not the same. Its nice because its football but. It was very strange. Something i probably wont get used to or enjoy. You need the fans. But we understand why were doing at the moment. Its a lot harder to play without fans then it is with fans. A lot of us thrive off the fans, especially our fans that are so good for us. Its difficult. Liverpool fans could accept difficult. They had waited 30 years, including the past few agonising months. Now, the title was finally theirs. The celebrations for supporters and players are mostly held