This is bbc news. The headlines at 11. 00. More than 65,000 retired doctors and nurses are asked to return to work to fight the coronavirus. It comes as the Health Secretary moves to reassure nhs staff that theyll have the protective gear they need. In terms of getting the protective equipment out, the masks and the other protective equipment, that is a massive operation thats ongoing right now. The chancellor is expected to announce new measures to try to protect millions of british jobs hit by the pandemic. Ministers urge people to shop sensibly, saying there is no need to stockpile food. It comes as one Critical Care nurse appeals to people not to buy more than they need. People are just stripping the shelves of basic foods. You just need to stop it because its people like me that are going to be looking after you when youre at your lowest. Just stop it the number of dead in italy overtakes that of china. Almost 3,500 people have now died. And the queen issues a message of solidarit
This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. The british Prime Minister sends a letter to every household in the uk warning that the Coronavirus Crisis will get worse before it gets better. Ministers say the public should prepare for a significant period of social distancing. I wish i could predict when this will end but it is vitally important that at the moment and four weeks ahead, people maintain the strict social distancing guidelines that have been laid out. Ten thousand people in italy have died from the virus the biggest death toll in the world but its Health Minister hopes infections have now reached their highest level. We are living in the peak of this
epidemic. I believe in one weeks time, maximum ten days, we will see a drop, a significant drop of positive cases. Spain is to introduce even tighter limits on who can leave their homes as it announces a new Record Number of deaths in the past 2a hours. In the uk, government commission
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And arise captain sir tom moore the World War Two veteran whos raised more than £30 million for the nhs is awarded a knighthood. Hello and welcome to viewers on bbc one, as we build up todays Coronavirus Briefing from the government, today led by culture secretary, 0liver dowden. We start today with comments from the Prime Minister, who said that there is a growing confidence that the uk will have a test, track and trace operation in place by next month. Borisjohnson said during Prime Ministers questions that the system would be world beating and there will be 25,000 trackers. He said this will help stop the disease from spreading and added that 2a,000 tracers had already been recruited. Lets look at the governments approach to testing and tracing so far. 0n the 12th march, the government moved away from community tests and Contact Tracing because of capacity problems, as ministers focused testing on patients with suspected coronavirus in hospitals. The Health Secretary matt hancock a
Sampling 1,300 women and maternity professionals in the UK, the inquiry found 4 to 5 percent of women develop post-traumatic stress disorder every year after giving birth approximately 30,000 women.