stay at home and protect lives thus the
clear warning from the health secretary
Matt Hancock who says it's not a request
but an instruction to the British people
to beat the coronavirus with warm
weather expected this weekend he says
any relaxation of social distancing
rules will mean more people will die in
the UK the number of dead has risen by
684 in one 24-hour period that brings
the total number of deaths in hospitals
from the disease to three thousand six
hundred and five now that number however
doesn't include deaths in the community
or in care homes and is in line sadly
with scientific predictions today two
nurses lost their lives to the virus
with each leaving behind three children
here's a health it is a human Aimee
O'Rourke one of two nurses who've lost
their lives to kovat 19 tributes were
paid today to their bravery including at
the Downing Street press conference and
there was this warning to the public
from the health secretary
we cannot relax our discipline now if we
do people will die so I end with the
advice that we all know this advice is
not a request it is an instruction stay
at home protect lives and then you will
be doing your part
I folks quick update it was the same
message from Boris Johnson still in
self-isolation case although I'm feeling
better and I've done my my seven days of
isolation alas I still have one of the
symptoms a - symptom of I have a
temperature and everybody may be getting
a bit stir-crazy and maybe just a
temptation to get out there hang out and
and start to to break the regulations
and I just urge you not to do that
earlier there was an unusual official
opening of the newest NHS hospital the
key players keeping their distance at
fixed points the moment marked by a
royal video contribution that's I could
invite nightingales head of Nursing
Natalie gray on my behalf to unveil the
plaque to declare
in HS Nightingale Hospital open in less
than two weeks huge empty exhibition
halls have been transformed into
specialist hospital wards Fork Ovid 19
patients the hospital is ready for new
patients it had been thought the first
group would have arrived by today but
London's hospitals have built up enough
extra capacity to cope with the caseload
at this stage so the nightingale won't
be needed til next week getting things
done is the message the government wants
to convey but Matt Hancock meeting staff
in training at the nightingale has faced
claims he hasn't done enough on testing
for the virus having set a target of 25
thousand tests a day which slipped to
later this month
he's now come up with a hugely increased
figure of a hundred thousand by the end
of April including many more done by
academic and industrial laboratories
where the tests going to come from who's
going to do them
it just really hasn't been his phone you
haven't given any detail what we have I
set out a five-point plan yesterday the
the first stage is the expansion of the
testing capacity within the NHS and with
public health England who are doing an
amazing job and then also the next stage
is to bring in the the private sector
companies the existing testing companies
testing NHS staff helps get more of them
back to work quickly
the Scottish Government is increasing
facilities like this this expansion of
testing capacity means amongst other
things that we will be able to test more
key workers with every day that passes
however in addition to increasing
capacity within NHS Scotland we are also
working with the UK government and other
partners to further increase testing
capacity beyond that
the NHS needs all the protective
clothing and ventilators it can get and
350 thousand items arrived from Shanghai
today Virgin Atlantic working with
guidance and Thomas Hospital trust there
was a virtual graduation ceremony for
doctors at the University of Bristol
today it happened early so they could
move straight to the NHS front line
where they'll certainly be needed in the
months ahead
Cupid BBC news well as we've been
hearing Boris Johnson is also urging
people to stay at home this weekend as
forecasters predict good weather
our chief political correspondent Vicki
young is at Westminster forest tonight
Vicki Boris Johnson was due to end
social isolation yesterday what happened
has been obvious hasn't it from some of
the photos and some of the video footage
this week that the Prime Minister has
not been well and of course at a time of
national crisis you do want your top
team firing on all cylinders and just
look at the list not just the prime
minister but his most senior advisor the
health secretary until earlier in the
week the chief medical officer all self
isolating and there's no doubt that
makes the task much harder and I think
it has shown at times this week when you
needed people with a real grasp of the
detail they simply weren't there now
Danny Street insisting the Prime
Minister does have mild symptoms he has
continued to work he is chairing
meetings throughout the day and as we
saw today as well very keen to get those
key messages out ahead of the weekend
saying to people like him stay at home
to save lives the prime minister of
course preparing to go into his ninth
day in isolation okay Vicki thanks Vicki
young they're at Westminster our key
workers in all sectors are facing
enormous difficulties in dealing with
the corona virus outbreak nan more so of
course than frontline NHS staff our
health correspondent Katherine burns is
keeping in touch with some of the men
and women battling the pandemic and
asked one intensive care consultant to
keep a video diary this comes from the
front line in the fight against
coronavirus Joy Halliday is an intensive
care consultant looking after some of
the very sickest patients
she started her video before a night
shift I've got three children and
they're all barfed and watery just
waiting for my husband to arrive home
who's a GP and obviously is he very busy
at work as well at the moment so we're a
bit like ships in the night good evening
again it's nine nine o'clock and we've
finished our intensive care handover my
trainees with me so we've got Johnny
who's our sh-show for the night and
Steven registrar and then another Steven
who's restocking are in tradition
trolley as we speak
so we are now going to go and Don our
PPE so we can start a ward runt and
we'll take you with us wherever so here
we are ready to start our wardrobe we're
outside of I to you at the moment Johnny
and myself are ready to go and commute
and steven is about to dawn his joy and
her team have to wear PPE personal
protective equipment that offers the
fullest possible cover all the patients
they see on this night have coronavirus
and are unconscious on breathing
machines they have to get very close to
them so it's 9:20 past 5:00 in the
morning and we've had a really busy
night here in intensive care the nursing
staff and doctors have worked non-stop
and it's really important that we look
after ourselves as well as our patients
sadly there's some battles that we're
not going to win the team try not to
phone families overnight but they have
to call if they think a patient is about
to die but even then relatives can't
come here for their own safety at these
times normally families would be present
and intensive care all the time by their
loved one sides and with the visiting
rules being changed and the risk to
relatives coming in and catching
coronavirus themselves
we don't have visitors anymore and
without for providing relatives with
daily updates about their loved one we
all know in in NHS as health care
workers that these are unprecedented at
times we also know that there may come a
time when we start looking after people
we know
we work with and we need to be prepared
to manage this joy holiday they're
ending that report