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Explained why this measure is being introduced. just a reminder to everyone, it was actually this day in 2019 when the world health organisation, the china office, was first told about a strain of pneumonia that had caused concern for 33 people in the city of wuhan and it seemed to be tied around a seafood market which was then closed but we know the way that covid then spread around the world. there are echoes of that time in what is happening now. the uk has come out and said, on thursday they said there were not going to be any changes but on friday they said they are going to introduce the...

A message reiterated by one health board. the pressure is on the nursing staff to make sure that we can give the best care. we're working with the a&e departments to make sure the patients are coming in through the ambulance service, getting them up to the wards quickly. but obviously, we've got to isolate quite a lot of patients, so that means looking at our bed base, looking at our side rooms and our wards. as this public health campaign makes clear, flu is back with a vengeance. nhs england says there were more than 3,700 patients a day in hospital with flu last week — that's a sevenfold ...

Mentioned checking on arrival and that will happen to one fifth of the arriving passengers. they are not large numbers coming into london heathrow today, for example, just three flights compared with more than 20 from new york. if those people test positive they will not need to quarantine. that is in stark contrast with what japan is saying, they say if you test positive and you are coming from china, and they are testing everybody, with a pcr test, then you go into a week of hotel quarantine. similar policy in south korea and the us has gone down the route, we want to test before departure, ...

The us has gone down the route of, "we want to test before departure," and italy, which was hit first and hardest by the covid crisis coming from china, said they will test everybody as they come in. simon calder, there. hospitals across the uk are under rising pressure due to flu and covid cases. in wales, the chief executive of the nhs has urged people to call 999 only if it's urgent. simonjones reports. siren wails this winter, the health service is experiencing demand like it's never seen before — that's the stark warning from the nhs in wales, which is dealing with a sharp rise in cases...

And the airlines have got the capacity because they did it already? exactly. checking covid certificates is something that they have become accustomed to. you mentioned checking on arrival and that will happen to one fifth of the arriving passengers. there are not large numbers coming into london heathrow today, for example, just three flights compared with more than 20 from new york. if those people test positive they will not need to quarantine. that is in stark contrast with what japan is saying, they say if you test positive and you are coming from china, and they are testing everybody, wi...