morning breaking over Milan by the time
people woke up here normal life had been
suspended after nearly six thousand
cases of covert 19 and more than 300
deaths in the early hours the Italian
Prime Minister announced drastic limits
on people's lives nivolumab guarantee
resolute initiative evening we want to
protect the health of all citizens we
are aware that this will create unease
and that these measures will be a
sacrifice big and small but this is the
time to be responsible 16 million people
are now living under strict conditions
the entire region of Lombardy home to
the financial capital Milan is under
lockdown but so are more than a dozen
provinces and Venice you can't enter or
leave these red zones without an
exceptional reason gatherings like
weddings and funerals are suspended
restaurants and cafes can open till 6
p.m. but must keep customers one meter
apart unfortunately many people slipped
out of the region before the shutters
came down news of the lockdown was
leaked last night giving people the
chance to flee South people are being
urged to stay put and stay at home but
Sofi Bevin whose family lives not far
from Milan says some are ignoring the
rules and no one's really enforcing them
people are still going on trips they
still going down the supermarkets
luckily as of this weekend they've
closed all the shopping centers the
shopping centers are now closed every
weekend they're open during the week but
they're closed every weekend but you'll
get groups of kids who have nothing to
do at home who will take a bus because
the buses are still running and go down
to the local shopping centers and hang
out as if there were nothing wrong and
people just don't appreciate the
seriousness of it
perhaps to Ram it home the Italian
government has released these pictures
of a woman in her 60s with coronavirus
being flown by military helicopter to a
Lombardy hospital here we've not seen
anything like the spread of the virus in
Italy 273 people in the UK now have
Kovac 19:00 the government hasn't
reached for so-called social distancing
measures yet but it is introducing
emergency legislation to protect the
jobs of volunteers like the sant John
Ambulance so they can stop work for four
weeks to help the NHS we have around
10,000 committed volunteers who we can
we can't help out in their communities
and we're talking about what role they
could play going forwards receiving paid
time off work to volunteer for us would
be a new step but it's something that we
will explore with government because we
want to play the fullest part possible
in supporting the nation at our time of
need shoppers emptying shelves have
forced three stores into rationing Tesco
and Waitrose online restricting sales of
some antibacterial wipes Asda some hand
sanitizer the Prime Minister said people
don't need to stock up we've had no
advice from from the scientific advisors
or the office that there's any need for
people to buy stuff in I you know if you
think you've got symptoms then the best
thing to do as you know is is is to stay
at home we contact the NHS and yes
absolutely
we will make sure that we give the NHS
all the support all the investment it
needs to cope with this crisis in the
u.s. nearly 500 people in 32 states have
tested positive for the coronavirus 19
have died today Democratic presidential
candidate Bernie Sanders said campaign
rallies could have to be canceled but in
China the number of new infections is
falling rapidly every day 57,000 people
have recovered from the disease there
we are looking forward to going home
here 32 people were also on the way home
after their two-week quarantine on the
world a precaution but we may see more
preventative measures in the coming
weeks well earlier I spoke to dr. riff
at at Rouen professor of global health
systems at Harvard University I began by
asking him whether he thought the UK
government should be acting more
aggressively in dealing with the
outbreak this is a very fine balance
between being quite alarmist but also
having delayed action was important is
that the government or the relevant
authorities regularly monitor with
strong surveillance system exactly
what's going on and take action but
certainly one can take many actions for
example reducing all unnecessary travel
reducing unnecessary non-essential
domestic trouble avoiding large crowded
meetings this was certain help a
registered P in terms of the number of
cases but also delay the epidemic to
give us more time to prepare and to to
react so will you look at the fact that
Italy is now locked down the entire
region of Lombardi have governments
around the world got to think the
unthinkable with this disease I mean we
can see at some point in the future
London being locked down with a
population what greater lungs has got a
population of 9 million is that possible
if the numbers continue to rise that is
going to be one way of containing or
delaying this epidemic we look at how
differently countries around the world
are handling this I'm thinking about for
example Singapore had its first
confirmed case on January 23rd the UK
didn't announce its first confirmed case
until over a week later yet now we've
got 273 cases they've got 150 obviously
different population sizes but is there
a different approach being adopted and
that the UK could learn from Singapore
had good experience from the SARS
outbreak in the past so they were able
to decisive
and quickly and they they had systems in
place to ensure that the policies were
cascaded their rapidly they were able to
trace contacts with the UK being a much
larger government and a much larger
country some sometimes the policies are
more difficult to implement so if you
were advising Boris Johnson Prime
Minister Boris Johnson right now what
would you be advising him to do this
week to get a grip on this situation so
we don't see what's happened in Italy
what's important in situations like this
is that the authorities have full trust
of the population so transparency
regular updates on the situation is
critical communication is very important
and rather than delaying action one
would have to take certain decisions
maybe in some pockets as Italy did early
on in Benneteau and Armored Division
before the lockdown maybe close off some
areas and maybe ban large meetings too
because we really need to reduce
transmission and and delay the epidemic
so that we have enough time to respond
otherwise the health system will be
overwhelmed thank you very much thank
you