this isn't the Welcome you'd want at any
Airport passport control is now
containment control here in Daegu in
South Korea this deep-clean takes place
both inside and out in a country with
the largest number of novel coronavirus
cases outside of China now at nearly
7,000 this is what covert 19 has done to
a Saturday morning in South Korea the
cases aren't just rising in Daegu here
in the UK 43 new cases were confirmed
today bringing the total to 206 the
family of a covert 19 patient who died
yesterday in Milton Keynes
said in a statement that they had lost a
wonderful husband dad granddad and great
granddad adding that whilst he may have
tested positive for having the virus it
has not been confirmed what the cause of
his death was globally there are now
more than a hundred thousand cases
across more than 90 countries as cities
and streets slowly empty faith offers no
protection from this virus here in Mecca
the cleaners were out in force at the
Grand Mosque
to Bethlehem in the West Bank as it
begins a 30 day lockdown and Pope
Francis will livestream tomorrow Sunday
prayer to avoid people gathering at the
Vatican and to Africa where a cruise
boat on the Nile is now in quarantine
after 12 people tested positive for
Kovac 19 a situation reflected off the
coast of California where 21 cases were
confirmed on the grand princess among
those on board is 60 year old American
cari Cole Stowe a retired teacher and
cancer patient who hopes to reach land
before her medication runs out the
captain didn't tell us until half an
hour after it was on the news he said
that he didn't have permission to do so
and I don't even think that the specific
people necessarily know oh which one is
have it in which ones don't
Americans like Kerry looked to their
president for answers when asked what
should happen to those on board Donald
Trump clad in re-election merchandise
focused instead on the numbers they
would like to have the people come off
I'd rather have the people stay but I'd
go with them I told them to make the
final decision I would rather because I
like the numbers being where they are I
don't need to have the numbers double
because of one ship he's put his vice
president in charge of his government's
response with Mike Pence saying the
Grand Princess will be brought to port
and everyone would be tested as cases
rise and the news spreads caution is
setting in like for these shoppers in
Hampshire keeping calm and stocking up
on toilet roll in Australia the scenes
were less to date
at this point in time we just ask that
people don't panic like this when they
go out shopping there's no need for it
it's not the Thunderdome it's not Mad
Max those seeking safety off the shelves
should remember that today China
reported its lowest daily increase in
coronavirus cases in seven weeks the
World Health Organization said that that
decline should be a source of
encouragement for other countries as
they tried to contain the viruses spread
well earlier I spoke to dr. Chand Nagpur
who's a GP and chair of the British
Medical Association Council I began by
asking him if the UK was still in the
containment phase we had the moment
officially still in containment phase
that doesn't mean that some of the
measures around delaying spread should
not be happening so we are seeing
efforts made to try and ensure that the
disease doesn't spread efforts made in
some cases some organizations are
cancelling unnecessary gatherings of
workers conferences and that that of
course would become very much policy in
a delayed phase but at the moment many
are taking those precautions at an early
stage are you happy to see things like
Cheltenham races go ahead next week it's
a gathering a lot of people in a
confined relatively confined space what
do you think about that I think each
event has to because it's on an
individual basis I think I'm going to be
guided by what is a balancing act
between experts looking at the trend of
spread balancing that against the
inconvenience of of putting a standstill
to normal functioning that decision
could come within days it could come
here than days yes there is conflicting
advice on masks isn't there if doctors
are requiring masks what would you say
to people who are worried about
travelling on public transport crowded
public transport would you say that at
some point it would be advisable for
them to wear masks too at this moment in
time there there is no recommendation
for the wearing of masks in order to go
outdoors to travel we know that the
standard surgical masks
don't really protect so you could
actually have a false sense of assurance
and think you're protecting yourself but
you're not what's shown to be much more
effective are the personal hygiene
measures such as washing your hands with
soap including for that matter you know
making sure that you're not too close to
two others there is a lot of a
difference of opinion between medical
experts about how worrying this outbreak
is we had on our program last night a
scientist dr. Richard Hatchett who said
it was the most frightening disease he'd
ever encountered in his career today
there was a evidence from a Canadian
infectious disease specialist saying
he's not scared of the virus but he's
scared of the panic about it where do
you stand on those two different views I
think we have to be rational and being
rational is rightly to be concerned and
vigilant because we know that this virus
can have very severe medical
consequences on those patients who are
vulnerable with medical conditions and
with the elderly so we can't be
complacent but equally what we should
not be doing is creating fear and panic
and alarm would you also be asking the
government budgets coming up for extra
resources to help you manage this crisis
you need to see a real injection of
resources in hospitals GP practices in
social care because if this virus takes
ahold we're going to need to really have
that greater capacity to look after many
more acutely ill patients the Health
Service we believe even before the
crisis was short of several billion
pounds per year compared to nations like
France and Germany if you actually look
at even our critical care beds Germany
has four times as many as we have per
thousand patients dr. Jean Bank Poole
thank you very much thank you
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