A woman in her seventies has become the first person with Corona virus to die in the UK The Royal Berkshire Hospital and Reading said she had underlying health issues, but she had not been abroad.

The number of people infected in the U.

K has jumped again to 116 among them some Children.

Almost half of those who have the virus don't need hospital treatment.

The UK is chief medical advisor, Professor Chris Witty says authorities across the country and now mainly trying to delay rather than contain the spread of the virus.

Globally, there are now more than 97,000 cases off Corona virus.

Of those, more than half over 53,000 have recovered.

The number of people who have died now stands at almost three and 1/2 1000 with the latest, His are healthier.

Sir Hugh Pin, according to the royal barque, should trust the patient had bean in and out of hospital.

She tested positive for the Corona virus last night.

Condolences have been expressed to her family by the trust health leaders on the prime minister.

Obviously, our sympathies very much with the victim and their family But the situation is pretty much as it has Bean in the sense that we're still Sam in the in the contained phase.

There now are scientists.

Medical advisers are making preparations for the delay.

Faith, the first British fatality with Corona virus though outside the UK was a tourist who'd been on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, which had been quarantined in Japan.

More details of cases in the UK have emerged.

Today there are 45 people being treated in isolation at home.

So far, 18 out of the overall total have fully recovered, but the source of infection in 10 cases remains unexplained.

The N.

H S and other global health systems are struggling to contain the virus, according to the government's chief medical advisor.

Delaying its spread is the next phase, he said.

Half the cases could occur over a three week peak of the epidemic, his comments coming in front of a committee of MPs.

The will be a period the beginning, middle and end this before it.

People will see no major impact on the HS, some reconfiguration and after it the N.

H s will be back to its normal state, But they'll be appeared in the middle.

If this goes to the top end of the range and it may well not, But if it does, where the N hs has huge pressure on it for a relatively short period of time.

The chief medical advisor outlined what he believed the benefits of the delay phase would be.

First, it would push back the peak number of cases from winter when pressure on the N.

H S is greatest.

It would buy time for scientists to improve their understanding of the virus on develop countermeasures such as drugs on the virus would possibly be less infectious in the summer.

Depending on when the FEEK comes and how many cases there are intensive care, beds will be in great demand.

Concerns have been raised about whether the N.

H s can provide what's needed on whether too much pressure will be put on staff.

I'm unbelievably proud to be a critical care nurse, and I worked with some fantastic staff, but we are human beings.

At the end of the day on, all of us have a tipping point, so it is really, really important that we look after those stuff to allow us to be able to look after patients.

One senior doctor told me his hospital has plans to convert other facilities into intensive care units.

It's going to be tough, but we have well rehearsed plans and we're working together across our system and across all our staff to make sure that we do have those Airbus plant those with less systems in place to cope with that increased demand.

The warnings today have been on the basis of a worst case scenario.

Case numbers may be less than expected, but health leaders feel they need to prepare hospitals, their staff and patients for a potentially very tough time ahead.

Cupid BBC News The government has said it will accelerate work on preparations for the next phase the delay phase of its plan to tackle Corona virus.

That's when it will introduce further measures to try to stop its spread once the strategy has decided it will be down to local authorities and communities to implement it.

Our special correspondent, Lucy Manning, reports from Brighton on how they're readying themselves.

There Brightens already been hits by Corona virus.

It contained the outbreak well, but like everyone else in the UK, it must now tackle delaying any further spread.

Those living here have questions about how moving to this mainly delay phase will affect them.

Think I'm imposes Work from home is not gonna be something that employees have to make decisions themselves.

We've had lots of big events have been canceled.

It would be good to know how long this sort of thing would be going on port.

It was a very simple message about watching out for those in charge of healthy elderly, the schools.

This is now a growing challenge.

It's up to each and every employer to make sure people ringing in six.

And I'm not sure if I've got Corona virus or not to make sure that they're staying at home.

People wanted to know how long this is going to last thought.

We may expect a three month period on with a peak in that, but one of the things we want to do, obviously, is to push that far into the future as possible to delay phase so that could come later in the air.

My biggest concern really saved my son who's doing so.

It's obvious we need to know from his for him if he's gonna be able to go to school in all schools in Brighton and Hove over open, there's no plans for any of our schools.

Are you trying to stop people get together in any public space?

We're gonna look at City Mart, skin of restaurants, shopping centers the moment our full program of events is going ahead.

And Operatives is a really busy, busy city, everyone to keep repeating the message about washing your hands.

We're taking it seriously, but we're also trying to get on with.

Life has to go on.

In the delay phase, the authorities will eventually have to make a decision about sporting events like football matches in Italy, all sports are being played behind closed doors.

But Brighton and Hove Albion players already restricted from shaking hands, doing high fives, posing for selfies with supporters.

But one of the calculations is it.

Fans aren't in stadiums.

Will they just be passing on the virus watching in pubs?

Instead, the government is likely to save the most severe measures for when the virus hits its peak.

On this message at the moment is there are no benefits to canceling large events if people keep following the health advice.

Lucy Manning BBC News Brighton The number of people who have died from Corona virus in Italy has jumped by 41 today to 148 the second highest death toll after China.

All schools and universities across Italy have been closed for at least a week to try to stop the spread of the virus, which has now infected more than 4000 people there.

Frances announced three more deaths, taking the total to seven with over 400 cases of Corona virus reported.

President Emmanuel Macron said today that an epidemic was inevitable and the United States government has approved emergency assistance of $8.3 billion to combat the spread of the virus across the country.

In California has declared a state of emergency after announcing its first Corona virus death, bringing the U.

S death toll to 11.

Well, our health editor Hugh Pin, is outside the Department of Health for us now on Dhe, the first death from Corona virus here in the UK But the government's message still very much keep calm.

Yes, so if he has clearly been a very difficult day, of course, for the family of the first patient in the UK to die with Corona virus officials here at the Department of Health extending their sympathies field.

Sadly, this was gonna happen At some stage.

The messages don't expect any big new policy interventions soon.

They're all being weighed up the options, like closing schools.

Both My Hancock, the health secretary, and Chris Witty, chief medical adviser, have said, The problem is you got a social cost without necessarily a lot of evidence that it helps halt the spread of the virus.

That maybe guidance in the weeks ahead to older people are looking after themselves, for example, avoiding crowded public spaces.

One new bit of guidance today is to those coming back to the UK from Italy.

Up until now, the advice is, if you're in northern Italy and come back with symptoms, you should self isolate.

Call 111 or go online.