Name: 英國首相："我們可以在12周內扭轉冠狀病毒的頹勢 (UK Prime Minister: 'We can turn the tide' on coronavirus in 12 weeks)
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12 weeks to turn the tide was Boris Johnson's message of today's Downing Street press conference.

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But he said that device would only be sent packing in his words, if the public followed medical advice on social distancing.

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Despite images showing that was not happening on some busy two trains and streets in London, there were no extra restrictions on travel or gatherings for the capital.

Business is desperate for help in paying their workers that they would have more information tomorrow and appeal to them to stand by their employees.

The Bank of England took its own action, cutting interest rates to a record low 0.1%.

Our political editor, Gary Gibbons, isn't Westminster Gary, as you say, we've got some pretty big moments today.

The Bank of England decision extraordinary stuff.

We got 350 pages worth of emergency legislation, which gives extraordinary powers to the government to detain people with symptoms of covert 19 for up to six weeks to ban events toe compel different organizations within the food chain to behave in certain ways.

We got all of that, but in some ways, what people were focusing on was what we didn't get there was an expectation that maybe we'd find out what you might call the sort of reserve occupations where the people who'd be entitled to a place in especially kept open schools for their Children.

We didn't get what was much hope for, not least by quite a lot of Tory MPs, but also people in business and employees, which was what's gonna happen to try and keep people in their jobs when employers feel they have no option but to shed them.

Right now, that news is promised tomorrow.

And we didn't get what was also expected.

Maybe some sort of ratcheting up of how life is lived in London, which is, you see from those images and images in this report that doesn't look as though it has actually dramatically changed.

And then we had a press conference with Boris Johnson, the regular daily one now in which this a man who in some ways has a duty now to create a bit of anxiety in the population because that's the way to get people to change their behavior slightly reverted to the Mr Feel good politician.

He described himself as someone who believes in boosterism who likes to put out an optimistic message, and there will be a question in some people's minds as to whether that was quite the right message for this moment.

It might change tomorrow, but this is how this extraordinary day in the all engulfing crisis went south London lunchtime today.

Business pretty much as usual exactly what the government didn't want.

The prime minister today emphasized how the country might get through this if people obey the instructions to keep their distance from each other and change their habits, he said he would use tougher powers if necessary, but the time was not yet.

It's vital that people follow that advice and huge evidence that they are in the takings in the retail sector, the hospitality sector TfL inner London, down about 80% in outer London, down about 60%.

But some evidence that in some parts of the capital, it's it's very patchy and some some areas where people aren't perhaps following it in quite the way that we need them to do.

Although some at the top of the N hs despair of scenes like these on the London Tube network this morning ripe environment for transmission of the disease.

The prime minister, after two days of extraordinary announcements on economic policy and closing schools, seem to feel this was the moment for a more upbeat message.

I believe that a combination off, uh, the measures that we're asking the public to take on dhe better testing scientific progress will enable us to get on top of it within the next 12 weeks and turn the tide that I I don't want to sign them.

I'm often accused of being unnecessarily boosterish about things on.

I certainly don't want to strike that Notre today, but I genuinely think that we buy the combination of these two things.

We will turn the tide and we will get through it.

The government did unveil a bill giving it extraordinary.

Emergency powers, including the powder, detain those with symptoms of the virus for up to six weeks and other powers to ban events, compel food distribution and much more.

The Bank of England hit the emergency button for the second time in eight days, another interest rate cut toe 80.1% away for above zero, the lowest rate since the bank was founded in 16 94.

It also announced it would buy £200 billion of government debt.

The prime minister urged businesses not to lay off their workforces, knowing many are on the brink of doing just that.

Is is really think very carefully before you start laying off your stuff, we do want to stand behind Good Cos we do want to make sure that people recognize that if they stand behind their staff, they should stand by in there.

Stop because we in the government are going to stand behind British firms.

In the common story, MP is lined up to demand the government go much further immediately, some calling on the government to pay troubled employers and a chunk of their workers salaries to keep them on the books.

On Tuesday, the chancellor promised that they would be employment support.

But as each day goes by, businesses are making decisions that will be irreversible.

If the government does not act immediately, large numbers of people would be unemployed.

Following yesterday's announcement of school closures is no official word yet about what will happen about exams do to be sat in England and Wales in May and June.

They will probably follow Scotland's announcement.

Their exams will be cancelled on pupils assessed on past performance.

Anticipate that this mortal will use coursework, teacher assessments of estimated grades and prior attainment as the basis of certification.

In order for such an approach to be effective, the Scottish Qualifications Authority will require relevant units to be completed on course working teacher estimates of grades to be submitted by the agreed deadlines, or indeed sooner where that is possible.

The queen, following government advice to the over seventies to avoid non essential contact, left Buckingham Palace for Windsor.

Many of us will need to find new ways of staying in touch with each other and making sure that loved ones are safe.

You can be assured that my family and I stand ready to play our part.

Michelle Barnier, you Brexit negotiator, announced he had covert 19 virus has infected or distracted some Brexit officials on both sides of the channel.

It's not known when they will be able to meet again like this for if the end of the year talks deadline will have to be extended.

Those working in the N HS will be hoping that the prime minister's optimistic turning the tide message reinforces rather than weakens, the stay home and social distancing message is vital to limiting the covert 19 death toll Gary Given.

Now the Bank of England has cut interest rates to their lowest ever and is pumping more money into the economy to try to stop the panic on the financial markets.

But will that be enough to save businesses?

Our chief correspondent, Alex Thompson, has been speaking to retails about how they are handling the impact of the virus on their businesses.

This morning, just as business leaders were calling for an immediate emergency postponement of tax and national insurance payments, Hacker San's north London publishing business was coming to terms with losing 90% of its income in just the past week.

Glossy brochures are gone and virus information flies don't fill the void we print for a lot of hotels at West End with schools, and we print for corporate clients as soon as the prime minister's announcement came out last week.

In regards to avoiding bars, fine start nearby on the seven Sisters Road.

Walk into any non food retailer and you'll get the same UK story.

12 o'clock is local and customer isn't anyone 30 Didn't see the customer on Should be.

Mohammed's family business has been here almost a decade.

Nobody saw anything, anything like this coming.

80% smart gone, 80% sales are going down.

I don't know what happened, so how is a return?

You cope without 80% of your customers gone?

Appearances can, of course, be deceptive.

But I suspect what is happening here today on the Seven Sisters Road in north London is happening on High Street right across the UK.

There are a lot of people about, but they're pretty much all doing one thing going to the food shops.

They line up outside supermarkets, limiting numbers inside because of the panic buying ominously, market traders told us wholesale shortages are happening and price hikes on fruit and veg.

As a result, we're asking something that you don't Michel for £2 tow 3 50 that have got the money but finding the money because older pressure's kind on the panic and all around mixed messages on public health for the public shelters Charity shop is open next door.

The British Heart Foundation charity shop closed on public health grounds.

Alex Thompson reporting what we ask the government for an interview.

But unfortunately, no ministers were available.

But joining me now from Westminster is the conservative MP and former business secretary Greg Clarke.

The prime minister trying to sound upbeat and optimistic today, and he said that businesses I have to stand by their employees.

But how can businesses do that if banks don't stand by the businesses?

Well, it's a very serious situation for businesses, as your report showed.

If they're losing 80% of their sales and in some cases Maur, they have a really decision to make which they're making now as to whether to to get rid of their employees.

Thes are people who will need when we recover from this crisis.

It's no fault of theirs that the crisis has happened on my view is that the government, not the bank's not just the banks, but the government needs to act to make sure that we hang on to the to the businesses and the employees within them.

Well, it's It's necessary for the absence of revenues for people to have money to pay their employees, and the government should provide that, and it needs to provide it.

Now is the getting towards the end of the month when the payroll happens now is when people are being lost.

They will have to go on Social Security, and that will be terrible for them and on and be a big burden in administrative terms to be processed by far the simplest way to proceed, in my view, is to use the tax system that every employer has.

They take money in taxes from their employees and send it to the government.

In these weeks, they should reverse the flow on dhe.

They should have support from the government going in the reverse direction to employees, pay packets on the condition that those people continue to be employed.

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