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  • this medical director of any chess England.

  • I'd like first to object you on the facts about the spread of the Corona virus.

  • Then I will outline why it is so critical that we continue to observe the rules on social distancing.

  • Thirdly, I'll explain what we're doing to increase the capacity off the energy just to deal with this disease.

  • And finally, I want to say something about how we can all work together to defeat this invisible enemy.

  • First, the fax is extend today.

  • As of 9 a.m. Today, a total of 183,190 people have been tested, of which 41,903 tested positive.

  • 15,000 and 73 people in England have been admitted to hospital with covered 19 symptoms, but the pattern off hospital admissions in England and Wales has regional differences.

  • In London, the number of admissions fell slightly between the first and second of April admissions a steady in Wales.

  • But in Yorkshire and the North East, they've gone up by 35%.

  • And in the Midlands, the rate of hospital admissions has gone up by 47%.

  • 708 people have sadly lost their lives as a result of covered 19 the highest daily total yet recorded.

  • And that means that of those hospitalized in the UK, the number who've passed away now totals 4330.

  • Those numbers emphasize again the importance of maintaining social distancing measures to halt the spread off the disease.

  • More than ever, we must stick with it, as the prime minister said in his video message.

  • No, I know that life under lock down can be challenging on.

  • Some will be tempted on this sunny weekend to venture writing about it.

  • But as the health secretary underlined yesterday, if we relax our adherence to the rules, we increase the risk for others.

  • That's why it's so important to stay at home, to protect the any chess and to save lives.

  • We need to think of those on the front line and the sacrifices that they're making for us.

  • As the chief nursing officer for England reminded us yesterday, Ruth may ask, Just remember to any chess nurses who died after contracting covered 19 Arema Nasreen, who was just 36 Amy O'Rourke, aged 39 each have three young Children.

  • They died while doing everything he could to help the sick and the suffering.

  • Oui, Colonel.

  • Best honor them.

  • But I think our part in fighting the disease by staying at home and slowing the spread, seven health care professionals have now lost their lives to Coffin 19 and we offer our heartfelt condolences to their grieving families and to the many others mourning the loss of loved ones.

  • They include the family of Is Mile Mohammed Abdul Wahab, who died a just 13 in King's College Hospital in London.

  • His mother and siblings are showing symptoms of the virus, and they were unable to say their final goodbyes at his funeral.

  • In their despair, the loving, dignified tributes from Israel's parents truly haunting our thoughts today are all sick with the family of the five year old child with underlying health conditions, who's tragically died so again you must stay at home to protect the N hs and to save lives.

  • Whatever the temptations this weekend, please don't go outside to visit the lakes, the beaches, the countryside.

  • Take pride instead, in keeping your own families and communities safe, the more we restrict, contact the more we slow the spread of the infection, the more time we have to build capacity in the N h s so that we can treat those who are most in need.

  • I want no to outline how we're increasing any chess capacity.

  • Yesterday we were grateful to His Royal Highness.

  • The Prince of Wales himself recently recovered from Corona virus for opening the brand New Nightingale Hospital in East London, a testament to brilliant teamwork on determined leadership from the N.

  • H s.

  • Two weeks of hard work of travade transformed a conventional into a fully functioning field hospital that can treat 500 cover 19 patients on ventilators or through oxygenation.

  • New Nightingale hospitals are due to be built in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Belfast, Glasgow, Harrogate on Manchester.

  • And given that we know that the Midlands are a particular area of concern, the N hs in the military are accelerating their existing work to transform the National Exhibition Center in Birmingham into a 2000 bed nightingale hospital.

  • I've spoken to the mayor of the West Midlands Andy Street earlier today and he is doing all he can with the N hs to accelerate that work.

  • Of course, a critical part of enduring the N H S is resilient.

  • Is improving the testing of staff.

  • 10,984 tests were administered yesterday on Does the health secretary outlined on Thursday.

  • We have a strategy to increase that number to 100,000 today.

  • Testing's a critical part of the clinical path E, but we all follow in seeking to reduce the impact of covered 19.

  • But the next vital step is appropriate pharmaceutical treatment.

  • That is why is, the health secretary explained?

  • Clinical trials are now taking place to see if anti virals, which have helped in the fight against HIV on antimalarial medicines such as hydrogen hydroxide chlorine queen can reliably reduce the harm that the corona virus inflicts.

  • The next stage in the critical pathway is ensuring that those patients with impaired lung functions get the oxygen they need, and this is where ventilation comes in.

  • We've been working to increase ventilator capacity across the N hs ventilation could be non invasive and invasive.

  • Effective non invasive ventilation can ensure patients do not need to be placed on invasive ventilators where they're intubated and supported to breathe with machinery which takes oxygen direct into their lungs.

  • We've secured new noninvasive capacity with help of UK manufacturers who've worked.

  • It pays to develop new technologies.

  • A team from University College London, working with Mercedes Benz, have produced a new device which has been clinically approved.

  • They produced 250 yesterday will produce the same number today and tomorrow, rising to 1000 day next week were also increasing the capacity of the N HS to deploy invasive ventilation.

  • We've been buying invasive ventilators from partners abroad, including Germany and Switzerland.

  • On today, 300 new ventilators arrived from China.

  • I'd like to thank the Chinese government for their support in securing that capacity.

  • And we've developed new sources of supply here in the UK, with existing and modified models being made in greater numbers on new models designed to come on stream soon.

  • The first bottle's, which have been scaled up a spot of the Ventilator Challenge, will be coming off production lines this weekend.

  • Maura to come into operation in the coming weeks, subject to safety and regulatory approvals as part of the prime minister's called to manufacturers to scale up production.

  • Increasing this production has involved securing supplies of critical components from lithium ion batteries to flow regulators from across the globe to assemble here.

  • The first of the ventilators that the government is ordered from Panel on a medical devices company based in Oxfordshire will begin arriving in hospitals this week for final clinical checks.

  • We're grateful to the M O D personnel who will be delivering them as we are to all the companies have devoted time, staff and resources to fighting covered 19.

  • The first devices from Smith's group have also been received at Em OD Darlington, a military logistics hub in Shropshire.

  • These have been approved by the regulation.

  • The initial dispatch is the result of scaled up manufacturing, often existing mechanical ventilator design, and we're grateful for the efforts of an industry consortium including geeky GKN Aerospace and Rolls Royce.

  • Thes ventilators will be distributed to hospitals this week and next week.

  • UK production of another ventilator device from the company's Dime Medica and Plexus will start at their factory in Kelso in Scotland.

  • The design is based on an existing product already in use in the N.

  • H s.

  • The more ventilators, invasive and non invasive available to the N hs.

  • The more patients can get the care they need when they need it.

  • But the process of design, testing, assembly and manufacturer does take time.

  • We need to make sure that these devices are safe on their manufacturer, scaleable.

  • The challenges in increasing numbers are formidable, which is why the commitment of the scientists, engineers, designers and civil servants involved in this work is so impressive.

  • But you don't need to be assigned to store engineer.

  • To help them or you need to do is to observe the social distancing guidelines that have been put in place.

  • The more we all stay at home and slow the spread of the disease, the more time we buy for more ventilators to come on stream on for the N HS to become more resilient.

  • Finally, I want to turn to the way in which all parts of our country are coming together to find this invisible enemy.

  • Teachers have kept schools open for those who need them, and parents have kept their Children at home wherever possible.

  • So we end to the Easter holiday weeks with school attendance haven't been around just 2% ensuring that the most vulnerable can be cared for for Children eligible for free school meals.

  • Vouchers will be available over the holidays to support household incomes but unconscious that more must be done, particularly over the holiday period, to support Children at risk and a need.

  • I will be seeing more next week about work in this area.

  • I also recognize that we're asking a lot of the British people and we in government therefore have a responsibility to communicate as clearly as possible clear, factual, timely information and an honest assessment of the difficulties that we all face, as well as proper recognition of the achievements of those on the front line who doing so much to fight this disease.

  • Adapting to this pandemic has meant developing guidance, implementing new policies on coordinating efforts across government at an unprecedented pace.

  • Inevitably, there has therefore being criticism off some government actions.

  • I recognize that that criticism has been designed to challenge government's performance and to improve our response, which is why I welcome it.

  • Even as we unite in our efforts to defeat the virus, we must also recognize that robust scrutiny is to be welcome.

  • It's the duty of the meat you, which is why we're acting to both share robust information on support our media by investing mawr in our government Information campaign, which is being disseminated through the national media and local newspapers and radio will share essential health advice and information on the support packages, which are available from the chancellor for workers and businesses.

  • Will show details of how you can help to volunteer to support our any Jess or help the vulnerable, and also how you can help our great British farmers by buying Maur.

  • Locally grown products will also this other ways in which you can join the national effort against the Corona virus.

  • We're also using social media in particular week young people, some of whom have been more reluctant than others to follow social distancing rules.

  • And in this united national effort, where we need both constructive challenge Onda a shared spirit of national endeavor, we want to make sure that we all work collaboratively to help defeat the virus.

  • That's when you've been coordinating daily with our colleagues in the devolved administrations.

  • One.

  • I spoke yesterday to my friends in the trade union movement, Francis O'Grady and Len McCluskey on one of the prime minister has written today to the leaders of all opposition parties, including the new leader of the Labour Party Secure storm.

  • I'd like to congratulate, secure on his victory and wish him well in his important role.

  • I'd also like to emphasize once more that all of us can do our bit this weekend in that united national effort by staying at home, protecting the N hs and saving lives.

  • And now I'll hand over to Steve.

  • Thank you very much.

  • Well, as you all now know, the key to getting on talk to beating this virus used to reduce contact with each other, to stay at home and to stop the spread of the virus on Daz.

  • The first chart this afternoon shows that we are continuing to see people adhering to those instructions.

  • Transport use in particular, public transport use remains extremely low, and it's absolutely critical, as you just heard, that everybody follows those instructions so the sun might be out.

  • But that doesn't mean you should be out.

  • We all need to make sure that we resist the temptation.

  • Whatever the weather, to disregard the instructions that are so clear, we need to stop social contact, reduced social contact, stop transmission on reduced spread of the virus.

  • And by doing that, we will start to protect the N HS and to save lives on.

  • As the next chart shows, The new cases in the UK have continued to rise, but in the last few days they have stabilized.

  • Now it's really important, as I've said before, not to read too much into a day or a few days data.

  • But if we do reduce social contact, we know from the scientific evidence we know from the experience of other countries that we will see a reduction in infection rates.

  • A reduction infection rates, as the next chart shows, means a reduction in hospitalization rates For the vast majority of people.

  • This is a mild, moderate illness, a bit like a cold or flu.

  • But for a small number of people, it does mean that the symptoms of severe enough to require hospitalization.

  • It will be ah, week or two before the measures that are put in place translate into lower hospitalization rates.

  • But as you can see in London in the last few days, that has bean a bit of a platter ring in terms of numbers.

  • Now in other parts of the country.

  • As you've just heard, hospitalizations are still going up, so this is not the time to be complacent on to take our foot off the pedal.

  • We need to continue to comply with those instructions because that will translate in the next week or two into a reduction in hospital missions.

  • And, of course, finally, as the next chart shows, unfortunately, and with great sadness, the number of deaths continues to be high.

  • And as I and others have said, unfortunately, that is likely to continue over the next week or two until we get on top and stop this virus on.

  • By doing that, we will see a reduction in the number of deaths.

  • Thank you very much, Steve.

  • I will not turn to our colleagues in the media for some questions.

  • On First of all, Rhea Chatterjee from ITV ria Hi, this is a question for you, Michael Goave Professor Neil Ferguson, a leading scientist advising the government, has warned that the covert 19 infection rate in the U.

  • K could remain high for weeks and weeks.

  • The weather was nice this weekend.

  • People will be tempted to go out.

  • People will go out.

  • What is the government planning to do to make sure people stay at home because some people watching this podcast will be asking if words are enough.

  • Well, thank you very much.

  • We of the your question.

  • I hope that I am certainly Steve have bean clear when we look at the at the death rate.

  • When we look at the number of increasing fatalities, when we consider the pressure on our any chess, everyone has to ask themselves the question.

  • What am I doing in order to relieve pressure on the N HS?

  • How am I helping in the shared national effort?

  • All of us have loved ones.

  • All of us have relatives who are at risk as a result off the spread of this disease.

  • If we want them to be safe, then we want The energy has to be is resilient, responsible, and that means observing these guidelines.

  • I know that look down is challenging.

  • I know it's very difficult particularly, you know, for families with Children, it's it's a challenge.

  • But people must where you at every stage respect these guidelines because that's the only way off, making sure that we restrict the spread off the disease and Of course there are.

  • There are provisions in place, legal provision in place.

  • If people deliberately flout these guidelines, the police have instructions to engage, to explain, to encourage and if necessary, to enforce the rules.

  • But it's vital that all of us recognize that if we weigh up on our off to outside on weight against the lives of those we love and the lives of those on the N h s front line, then it should be clear.

  • I hope to all that we should follow the advice, Steve.

  • So my colleagues, my friends working in the N.

  • H s in the front line would absolutely plea to every member of the public to follow the instructions that they have been provided with their safety.

  • Their lives depends upon that and, of course, beyond the N H s.

  • It's the lives on the health off.

  • All of us, our friends, our relatives, your friends, your relatives that depend upon us following these instructions on we know it can work.

  • We absolutely know that this can work on.

  • So, as I've said many times before, this is everybody's chance to save her life to ensure that a ventilator that might have been used isn't used on.

  • We need to stick with this.

  • It's tough.

  • It's hard.

  • It's hard for everybody.

  • I realize that.

  • But this is the time that we need to make sure that we don't, uh we we stick to that guidance on we don't deviate from it.

  • Is there anything more that you wanted to follow up on rear?

  • That's fine.

  • Thank you.

  • Thank you.

  • Next we go to Pallet Goche from the BBC Palo.

  • Mr.

  • Grove, do you have any Nick?

  • Any indication so far as to whether people are following the government instruction to stay indoors so far this Saturday?

  • And I'd also like to ask Steven Powers whether we should take any heart whatsoever from the flat opening of hospital admissions in some parts the country, notably London and the Midlands, and also to elaborate on comments made by Neil Ferguson again that if we do follow the current restrictions, then perhaps by the end of May, some of the severe restrictions could be substituted by less intensive ones based on testing and technology.

  • What did he mean by that?

  • Thank you very much.

  • My impression is that people are adhering to the social distancing guidelines.

  • But I also recognize that the temptation is there, a Steve said.

  • When the sun is out, there's a temptation to be out oneself.

  • But the indications that we have so far other people are observing them, and they're doing so because the overwhelming majority of people are public spirited and they want to play their part.

  • So every country in the world will have to work out its strategy for managing this new virus.

  • And as I always say, remember, this is a virus that until a few months ago we didn't know existed on wasn't in the human population on.

  • We are learning about this virus A.

  • Ll the time on the scientific evidence of how the virus is transmitted, how it effects immunity will become more and more clear over the next few months.

  • So, yes, we will have to develop a strategy for coping with this virus as well all countries.

  • But it's a bit too early yet to say exactly what that strategy will be.

  • The imperative of the moment is to get on top of it onto really reduce transmission.

  • So I'm absolutely, uh, sure the device, the scientific evidence will help those scientific advisor, the scientific advisory group for emergencies to formulate the best possible possible advice.

  • The government going forward.

  • But on this day, at this moment in time, the critical objective is to stop the spread of the virus by reducing our contact with each other on maintaining social distance.

  • And it's only if we do that, and only if we are successful in doing that, that we can actually have the conversations about what the next steps are.

  • Is there anything more than you'd like to speak?

  • I would like, just, like full up with Steven.

  • But on the whether we should take any heart from the flattening off of hospital admissions, I know it's early days, but can we read that some of the early major so so apologies for not addressing?

  • So?

  • Asai described when when we showed you the charts and as I've said before, Ah, reduction in transmission so sprayed in the community and there is some evidence that the measures that have been put in place everybody's compliance with them is reducing transmission will over a number of days and weeks, start thio be reflected.

  • The benefit will be reflected first in a reduction in infections, then in a reduction in hospitalization and then finally in a reduction in deaths.

  • So, yes, that there is reason to be hopeful that some of the changes that we are observing in infections and packed in hospitalizations is now reflecting the benefit off the social distancing that everybody is complying with.

  • But it will still take time for that toe have its maximum effect on.

  • This is not just about something we did two weeks ago or a week ago.

  • This is something that we have to do now and in the days and weeks ahead, because if we if we somehow decide that we need to take our foot off the pedal is somehow we think that this is something through for the days passed.

  • And no, not the days ahead.

  • In the next week to then those charts will start to go in the wrong direction again.

  • So So the clear message.

  • And it is a broken record, I'm afraid, from both of us.

  • But the strategy at the moment, the imperative of the moment is to maintain social distancing, stay at home, reduced contacts, stop the spread of the virus and then we will progressively see the benefit off those actions.

  • Thank you.

  • Thank you very much.

  • People turn now to Tom Rayner from Sky.

  • Thank you.

  • A question first for Mr Palace.

  • 13 residents of the Burlington Court care home in Glasgow have died in the last seven days.

  • They're suspected of having contracted Cove in 19 but have not bean tested because they weren't in hospital?

  • How much higher do you think the death figures could be in the UK than what we are seeing in the official statistics?

  • Because their deaths will not be in the numbers that we have set out today.

  • And for Mr Grove, if I may.

  • Nearly a 1,000,000 new claims have been made to universal credit just in the last few days.

  • It is a system designed to encourage people into work, but it does that by incentivizing work rather than relying on the benefit.

  • But when the vast majority of these new claimants are going to be unable to seek work, is it right that universal credit be made more generous?

  • I'll hand over to Steve, first of all, to deal with your direct question about social care and then I'll come back on universal credit eso with great sadness.

  • And unfortunately clearly deaths do happen in the community.

  • On those are people who do not go to hospital and therefore do not pass away in hospital s o the figures that we report from the n h s.

  • All the figures for deaths in hospitals, the office, the national statistics is able to report on deaths that occur in the community through the death registration process.

  • And in the last week, they have started to do that.

  • So yes, I would expect that debts will be higher than the number that are reported from hospitals.

  • But I think it will only be in the days and weeks ahead.

  • As that data starts to come through from O.

  • N s, that we will be able to answer the question that you've you've asked this'll disease does not discriminate.

  • All this virus does not discriminate.

  • It effects everybody in all settings.

  • Unfortunately of all ages on therefore a CZ, I've said I do think sadly that we will continue to see those high number of deaths we've seen at the moment.

  • But as we start to get control of this through social distancing in a few weeks that will start to fall on on universal credit.

  • Tom, you're absolutely right.

  • That universal credit is designed to support people in working to help people, to find work on designed to incentivise work.

  • But we're living, as you acknowledge through unprecedented economic times on universal credit is the means by which we're giving support to those who need it most.

  • It's not the only means, however, that the government is deploying as you'll be aware there are up to 1.5 million people in the most vulnerable category three shielded, vulnerable who we are distributing food and prescription medicines, too.

  • And it's also the case that a new task force led by George Eustice on by the Food and Farming minister, Victoria Prentiss, are working with local authorities on charities and others to identify other people who are vulnerable, who lack social networks or who lack resources in order to make sure that they can get the support that they need.

  • But, of course, we keep the whole welfare system under review in order to ensure that we can support people financially through a difficult time.

  • Is there anything that you wanted to come back on.

  • Just on that point, Mr.

  • Goethe, your colleague Matt Hancock, the health secretary, acknowledged that he couldn't live on £94 a week.

  • Statutory sick pay.

  • Universal credit has been made more generous by the government, but only by £20 of wheat.

  • Bring it in line with statutory sick pay.

  • Do you believe that?

  • That is, except for when you have millions of people, many of whom would have bean in full time work paying their taxes.

  • That that is now the level that the government can support them at, or given that these are exceptional times, would you consider making the system more generous?

  • I think we have to consider tha the nature of the system and whether or not we do need to, um, ensure that we better support the vulnerable we keep that constantly under review.

  • I think it's important that we do recognize that this is a very, very difficult economic time for very many.

  • Yeah, I'll hand over to Ben Countries from LBC.

  • No, sorry, Ben, I I know that you're asking a question, but but But the audio here in our press conference room isn't picking up what you're saying.

  • I don't know if it's a technical problem.

  • You hear me now?

  • Yes, we can bend.

  • Sorry, I thank you, Mr Go of everybody watching this will be wondering the same thing.

  • That is how and when this lock down will end.

  • You said before.

  • Understandably, it's too early to say whether but I wondered if you could help us with the how Professor Powers just said there.

  • It's almost too early to say what the exit strategy will.

  • Babe, can you reassure people because that will worry that that the government does have a plan?

  • An exit strategy is it were to lift this locked down while also containing the virus on just specifically a couple of quick questions to professor powers.

  • Firstly, it's been it's been said a lot that some of the experts advising the government believe that herd immunity, while not the strategy, is ultimately inevitable, that we simply won't be able to stop.

  • Most people in this country getting Corona virus or we can do is spread that out to ease the burden on the chest.

  • Can you level people with people today and say that is the case that most of us will get this at some point.

  • Or do you believe that not to be the case very specifically has been summarily evidence from other countries that treating Corona virus patients with blood plasma with antibodies or people who have become from the illness can have a significant benefit?

  • Is that something the electrics is looking at?

  • And will you be asking?

  • People have recovered to donate blood.

  • Thank you.

  • Thanks, man.

  • On your specific point about when the current restrictions will end.

  • It depends on our own compliant.

  • One of the points Neil Ferguson was making other today.

  • One of the points that Steve and I have been seeking to make today as well is that the more effective that people can comply with what we acknowledge our very stringent conditions, the more that we can.

  • So the spread of the disease more resilient.

  • The antique chest can be the more that we can move to a different phase in due course.

  • But it does rely on people observing that, So there's no fixed point, no a specific date on the calendar at which we can say that things will change.

  • We're keeping them under review.

  • The promise to said that the the current lock down proposals will be reviewed in in what is just over a week's time.

  • But we need people to comply now.

  • The other thing that I would say is that a CZ Steve I'm sure will say more about we're dealing with a wholly new virus.

  • We're dealing with a new virus whose spread on whose capacity to cause death are unlike those that we've seen specifically before.

  • And therefore we need to be certain that in every area where we can fight this virus, we are improving our capacity.

  • I'm making sure that we have the flexibility needed as we moved to a different phase toe.

  • Have all the tools ready in order to fight it on.

  • Those tools will include, of course, not just some of the treatments which are undergoing clinical trial at the moment, but also some of the vaccines that we're seeking to collaborate with other countries to develop worldwide and also making sure that the N hs itself has the resilience required to deal with more cases in the future.

  • Steve Yes, so I don't particularly like the term exit strategy.

  • I think we should think much Maur of how we are going to manage this virus over the next months because it is very likely that this virus will become established in populations throughout the world.

  • And so we need a strategy to manage this overtime, not just in the next few weeks or the next few months.

  • And as I said earlier, all countries will be thinking and working together on what that strategy must be.

  • Secondly, as Michael said, and I've said scientific knowledge about this virus is still being discovered, we were still in the early stages on As we learn more about it, a scientific evidence builds, then that will allow those strategies to revolt.

  • So immunity is one part off a viral infection and an epidemic.

  • But it's not the only part of it, as you've just heard successful drug approaches and we are recruiting people into clinical trials.

  • The use of vaccines, a role important, parts off strategies to manage any infection on as we learn more about effective drug treatments.

  • As we see vaccines coming up in the future, they are all important components of how in totality you manage on infection.

  • On def, we look att back at past infection, so if you go back, what, 40 years ago to HIV and AIDS.

  • Ah, different sort of infection coming into the population.

  • But over time, strategies were developed to manage that infection.

  • So we can manage infections through various strategies of which immunity is one part.

  • And I should say, as I said before, one of the important things when it comes to immunity that we still need to learn because it is too early in this in this epidemic pandemic to learn this is what sort of immunity is generated in people.

  • How long that immunity lasts.

  • A manual will be important information as we develop strategies in the months to come.

  • Thank you very much of anything.

  • We want to be better.

  • But I just come back on that specific point and talk about their about the manage managing the illness.

  • The question was about whether you therefore expect most people to get it would be grateful if you could just say a little more if we're managing it rather than stopping it.

  • Is it the case that at some point most people in the UK will get this virus because it depends upon all those things that I have?

  • I've talked about eso.

  • It depends upon effective drug treatments.

  • It it depends upon effective vaccine strategy.

  • So So it's not trying to avoid the question it all.

  • It's simply to say that we are too early on in a virus that three months ago we knew nothing about didn't know was in the human population to answer those questions.

  • So So I don't want anybody to get the impression this is the avoidance of questions.

  • This is the reality off learning about a new virus on a new disease.

  • Thank you very much.

  • We will turn out to Dave Wooding David Wedding rather from the Sun on Sunday.

  • David, Good afternoon.

  • We've had some reports, is down at the 02 on Chess Sington following the excellent good news announcement by your colleague del Sector this week that 100,000 tests her day will be carried out later in the year.

  • We found lots of problems with bureaucracy, people turning up, leaving untested on HS.

  • Nurses are in tears because they told you need an email or they need identity or on a point, What can you do to cut through this red tape?

  • Because there's no point in bringing in extra tests.

  • If people can't be tested in the system that's in place, if I may be doing a quick 12 We've had today off five G masts being burned down by people who have read false rumors on social media that these massive in some way responsible for spreading the virus.

  • Can you please debunk that myth for us, please, and explain what damage these people do you to communication at a very difficult time for this country.

  • Thank you very much, David.

  • On the first point, I'm very grateful to two boots and two others who played a role in making sure that we can have drive through testing in chess.

  • Sington in the 02 center andan other sites.

  • It is there, specifically for any chess workers.

  • On the aim was to make sure that only any chess workers had access to it.

  • But if it's a CZ, your reporters have discovered being enforcing a bureaucratic fashion.

  • Then I will talk to Matt immediately after this press conference, and we'll make sure, working with the blue team and others that those who need those tests get those tests on.

  • Thank you for that reporting because It's precisely that sort of investigative work that make sure that we we can, when we encounter problems and bureaucracy, try to cut through the red tape s So we will do that.

  • We will report back at tomorrow or at Monday's press conference, any progress that we've made on the point about the following GI Most's.

  • I thank you again for mentioning it.

  • Um, this always don't have got about that.

  • They play a role in the spread of the disease.

  • That's just nonsense.

  • Dangerous nonsense as well.

  • Im hand over to Steve to say a little bit more about the vital importance off knocking down this rubbish S o The five g story is complete and utter rubbish.

  • It's nonsense.

  • It's the worst kind off fake news.

  • The reality is that the mobile phone networks are absolutely critical all of us, particularly in a time when we're asking people to stay at home on thio Nazi relatives on friends, but in particular those are also the phone networks that are used by our emergency service is on our health workers on I'm absolutely outraged, absolutely disgusted that people would be taking action against the very infrastructure that we need to respond to this health emergency.

  • It is absolute utter rubbish.

  • And I can't condemn it in stronger terms than that on the testing.

  • The good news is we said that we would ramp up staff testing.

  • We're actually tasting staff, not just through those drive through, um, places that you have seen or those drive thru facilities, but also in spare capacity in R N H s laboratories as well.

  • I'm pleased to say that yesterday we tested over 2000 n.

  • H staff N HS staff in the capacity we had in our N H s laboratories that 16% rise on the day before, 34% on the day before that.

  • Onda latest data shows over 4000 staff of being tested in those drive thru facility.

  • So we are increasing staff testing all the time, which is really important So that where staff Although although household members don't have Corona virus, they can come back to work on assist with the pressure that is clearly building on the N hs at the moment.

  • Thank you, Steve.

  • Anything more that you wanted to to ask David?

  • No, that's fine.

  • You go in my point's well Thank you.

  • Thank you very much, David.

  • Thank you.

  • I will turn to David Maddox of the Sunday Express night.

  • Good afternoon.

  • Um, to begin with, could you give us any indication as to why the numbers of infection rates appear to jumped up so quickly in the Midlands and for northeast on Yorkshire?

  • Uh, also a question for Michael go ved Onley.

  • Helpful people are self employed in particular.

  • Is there any possibility that this could be reviewed?

  • Given the people who have company directorships, it often don't get much money from most company.

  • Don't ships are now blocked from having any of that help on dhe.

  • Finally, in terms of exit strategy and sorry too.

  • Here's that, Professor Powers.

  • But do you have an infection right in mine as to when they locked down measures?

  • Social distancing visions may be scaled back.

  • Thank you, David.

  • I'll take the second question on the hand.

  • The first in the third over to Steve.

  • The package that we put in place in order to support self employed and also to support our workers in the economy overall has been designed in order to help those principally on a lower incomes in order to help them through a difficult time.

  • It's been designed, specifically targeted in order to do that.

  • But as we've seen in the course of this week, the Treasury are keeping these schemes under review on doing everything they can, working with the banks and others in order to help support viable businesses to keep people in employment on, to put the government's hands round every working person s o.

  • If there are specific examples off inefficiencies in the way in which the business supports gay, more support for the self employed is operating that I know that the Treasury will want to look at them in order to make sure that support is targeted as effectively as possible.

  • But I'll hand over to deceive on the question about the regional spread on also about how we manage our way out of the current situation.

  • Eso won the geographical variation.

  • I think it's difficult to give a particular explanation as to why any particular part of the country has a higher rate at any one time.

  • I would say that perhaps not unsurprising.

  • London, as a major urban center, has an infection rate, which is maybe a week or so ahead of the rest of the country.

  • But for instance, if you look at a normal winter and look at the spread of flew in a normal winter, it's not unusual to see flew rates in the winter pop up in one area of the country before they rise in another area, so that that geographical variation is actually to be expected.

  • Although, as I say, it's difficult to get under the skin of why one particular area versus another might have a higher rated any particular time.

  • So not unexpected on the infection rate per se.

  • No, I don't have a particular figure for infection rate.

  • Andi think it allows me to highlight one of the bits of scientific information one of the pieces of the jigsaw that I've been talking about earlier, that we don't know about yet but which will help us when we develop strategies going forward.

  • So we're still not clear how many people might have had this virus but have not developed symptoms that his work that's going on internationally and in fact it's work that's going on in this country as I speak to try and understand what that figure is when that information becomes available when that scientific knowledge is known with large numbers of people, that will help us, not only in our strategy going forward in our understanding of infection rates per se thanks very much.

  • Is there anything you just wanted?

  • Clarity on there, David?

  • Just very quickly.

  • Then are you putting more weight on infection rates or hospital admissions In terms of your strategy going well, I think the strategy is being quite clear.

  • It continues to be the strategy strategy used to save lives and to protect the N.

  • H s save lives because clearly we wish to save lives as a doctor.

  • That's why I went into medicine.

  • Of course, we'd be to save lives.

  • But putting say putting putting less pressure on the N H s is important for a number of reasons.

  • Firstly, a CZ I've said before, our strategy is to be to build capacity in the N.

  • H s.

  • So at the same time is we are reducing the spread of the virus by the measures that the government has put in place, and we were almost follow so reducing demand, we have worked hard to make sure that we're ahead of the curve on.

  • We have increased capacity and you've heard about the Nightingale Hospital in more nightingale hospitals today.

  • So we still have capacity within the N H s.

  • Even in London, we are ahead of the surge.

  • And I think that's down to the huge efforts that the N hs has put in Esso Going forward, the strategy will need to be to continue to make sure that the N hs can cope with this on that we save lives.

  • So those are the two pillars off the strategy going forward.

  • Thank you.

  • Im will turn now to Michael Savage from the Observer.

  • My thank you.

  • First of the Secretary of State on compliance you mentioned in your introduction about young people and using social media to reach that.

  • Do you have demographic data suggesting they're being less compliant at the moment compared to other demographic groups and and also we're two weeks into this.

  • Now you having to work very, very hard to implore the public to stay home.

  • What other methods could be government call upon when they're months into this rather than weeks to ensure compliance continues and to professor powers?

  • If I could question on ventilation, Neil Ferguson says we might reach a peak in 7 to 10 days, according to our models.

  • How many ventilators will we need at that point?

  • And how many do we think we will have?

  • Thank you.

  • Thank you very much, Michael.

  • Um three evidence does suggest that compliance does vary across different sections of the population.

  • On there is evidence that has been evidence to suggest that for some young people there's bean a lower level off compliance on.

  • That's why it's important that we we reach them appropriately.

  • It may be that some of the messages and some of the channels that we've used have not reached some sections of the population.

  • It may be that younger people feel that they're less likely to be affected and less likely to be infected.

  • One of the reasons, therefore, for trying to make sure that our message is consistent is that for some you may hear this message again and again and again and think Well, the government is that Steve mentioned there's only like a crack record, but will be many who won't have access or don't access traditional media on.

  • We need to make sure that we get the message through to them.

  • The evidence is that people appreciate why it's important.

  • People appreciate the the ethical reasons why self restraint can help others at a time like this on it's because people are building up that that broad social understanding that unconfident, that we we can, uh, work with the British people to ensure that over the weeks for as long as it takes, that we exercise the self discipline required in order to beat this virus.

  • But you are right.

  • In the implication of your question, it is tough on.

  • I particularly appreciate that it is tough for families that is tough for those in economically vulnerable positions.

  • And that's when the government is always looking ways in which we can help those by making sure that we're alive to the pressures that they face our hand over to Steve on ventilator capacity.

  • But one of the things I would say, as I emphasized here is that but more that people observe the social distancing guidelines, the more time we Bonaly the any chess on the moor ventilator capacity, non invasive and invasive week and secure.

  • And that has to be our aim.

  • Yes, so that's exactly right.

  • And as I said, it wanted to The previous question.

  • The N.

  • H s strategy has bean to constantly build capacity so that we stay ahead off the demand.

  • A CZ, Michael said.

  • We need to reduce the demand.

  • We're doing that through social distancing and staying at home, but we have planned over the last few months to stay ahead of capacity, so I won't give you a number in terms of our aim for ventilators.

  • But I will say that we are constantly looking to procure ventilators and the call to arms for British industry eyes.

  • Also aiding and getting ventilators from sources that we didn't have before on Michael's mentioned non invasive ventilation.

  • So that is ways of ventilating to providing oxygen support to people where you don't have to put a tube down into the lungs and down into the windpipe.

  • To do that, that's invasive mechanical ventilation on.

  • We're learning all the time, not least to international collaboration, asshole, how non invasive ventilation might be used.

  • So the old overall strategy is to keep our ventilation capacity on our critical care facilities ahead.

  • Off the off the demand on dhe, we have successfully done that so far on Dhe.

  • If we all comply with the measures to put in place that have been put in place, then that gives us a very best chance that the demand never exceeds the capacity on one final thing I'd say about capacity.

  • So I think it's important that everybody realizes that although we are focusing on increasing capacity to deal with the Corona virus wth, E N.

  • H s is still working as it always does for people with other health emergencies.

  • So it's really important that at this time when there's a focus on Cove it 19 that if you have symptoms of a stroke, that if you have symptoms of a heart attack or any other emergency that you are contacting the N hs and the Health service is as normal because the N H s is focusing is hard on people with other conditions, other emergency conditions as it is on a Corona virus.

  • And it's important that we do both of those at the same time.

  • On that has been our strategy and will continue to be our strategy.

  • Thank you very much.

  • TV, anything you wanted to follow up on with me, Michael.

  • Or could I just ask quickly whether your introductory remarks about ventilation change the underlying numbers?

  • That is broadly that we have just over 8000 ventilators and 8000 on order.

  • I think it's important to stress that we have more than 8000 ventilators in the N.

  • H s now on.

  • We want to increase capacity well above the 8000 additional that has been sighted on dhe.

  • We want to be in a position where we have wth the highest level of ventilation capacity possible.

  • Which is why we are, as I mentioned earlier, not only producing noninvasive ventilators with the help of U.

  • C.

  • L a Mercedes Benz, but also why Penn Lawn Smith's Die America and other companies are also working with us is also why we're sourcing ventilation capacity from Germany from Switzerland, from China and elsewhere.

  • With that, I just want to say thank you to Steve on dhe thio.

  • All the staff in the N.

  • H.

  • S on to say thank you to our colleagues in the media on will be another press briefing, Of course, tomorrow.

  • Thank you.

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