through let's talk to our health
correspondent Anna Collinson and we've
had an update in terms of where the
nation is now Anna yeah in the last just
in the last few minutes the death toll
has been announced and it's an increase
from yesterday by 181 so the death toll
for the UK is now 759 yesterday it was
578 and yesterday when that figure was
announced it gone up by a hundred and
because there had been a change in how
the government were recording this data
that seemed to explain that big increase
but again today we're seeing an increase
by a hundred and twenty-one what we had
heard in the PM's press briefing
yesterday afternoon from the deputy
chief medical officer she had said that
the figures that they had received
looking at the trend there had been a
slight glimmer of hope that the UK's
trajectory compared to other countries
wasn't as steep and they were hoping
that things were looking more positive
obviously these figures will need to be
looked at but it does appear to be
bigger than what people might have been
expecting yes yes and continually we
have to look at other countries and and
we will continue to do that here of
course this all coming on the day that
we've learned about the Prime Minister
and the health secretary there could now
be one imagines an awful lot of people
in political circles who have to think
very carefully about what they do yeah
exactly
I'm Boris Johnson announced this morning
that he had had some symptoms that were
associated with coronavirus so a
temperature a cough he was tested by NHS
staff at Downing Street and that test
came back positive shortly after Matt
Hancock revealed he had also been tested
and was positive and that means that
they both need to note now go into self
isolation abide by the rules that the
government had set them so self
isolation in Downing Street means he's
not allowed to go outside unless it's
for a short period of exercise he can't
go out shopping for food or for
medication he can't see his friends or
his family he can't have visitors and
and it'll be the same for Matt Hancock
and the type of symptoms that Boris
Johnson can expect it is the sort of
common symptoms that people have the
majority is this this persistent cough
this high fever in some cases pneumonia
there are for the
see more serious symptoms like
difficulties breathing needing to rely
on a ventilator but as I say that tends
to be it is a minority and it does tend
to be for elderly people and a thought
about the coming weekend because we've
been reflecting that some hospital
officials some health officials are
saying we really have to watch these
figures over the next weekend we're so
worried about a potential spike trying
not to use all the words that aren't
necessarily very helpful but but you
will appreciate what I what I mean by
that and there's a lot of talk for
example on particular pressure on
hospitals on the outskirts of the
capital how can we explain that yeah I
mean the next two to three weeks experts
are saying that's when they think it
will be the peak I know we've started
the lockdown now but you know sometimes
it takes symptoms up to two weeks to
appear so the next two to three weeks is
going to be really hard for hospitals
that's what experts are saying and the
entire UK to affected we've seen
hospitals in Glasgow and Newport warning
about it but in London that is where a
third of the cases are and a senior NHS
boss has warned it there could be a
tsunami of cases this weekend that
critical care support might not be
available and so we've been hearing that
NHS staff from other parts of the UK or
the parts of England are being drafted
into London to try and help and do that
bit and of course there are the problems
with what's going on with hospitals at
the moment not enough equipment to go
around even though the government is
trying to get it out onto the frontline
but also the fact that testing lots of
staff are having to take time off work
because they're they've either got
symptoms or something they're living
with her symptoms and they can't go in
yes
alright Anna for now thank you very much
our health correspondent Anna Collinson
thank you