Hi folks, I want to bring you up to speed with something that's happening today
which is I've developed mild symptoms of the coronavirus. That's to say a
temperature and a persistent cough and on the advice of the Chief Medical
Officer, I've taken a test that has come out positive so I am working from the
home. I'm self isolating and that's entirely the right thing to do, but be in
no doubt that I can continue, thanks to the wizardry of modern technology, to
communicate with all my top team, to lead the national fight back against coronavirus
and I want to thank everybody who's involved. I want to thank, that, of
course, above all our amazing NHS staff. It was very moving last night to join in
that national clap for the NHS but it's not just the NHS. It's our police, social
care workers, teachers, everybody who works in schools, of DWP staff and amazing
national effort by the public services but also by every member of the British
public whose volunteering incredible response. 600,000 people have volunteered
to take part in a great national effort to protect people from the consequences
of coronavirus. I want to thank you and will thank everybody who's working to
keep our country going through this epidemic and we will get through it and
the way we're going to get through it is, of course, by applying the measures that
you'll have heard so much about and the more effectively we all comply with
those measures, the faster our country will come through this epidemic and the
faster we will bounce back so thank you to everybody who's doing what I'm
doing, working from home to stop the spread of the virus from household to
household. That's the way we're going to win, we're going to beat it now. We're
going to beat it together, stay at home, protect the NHS and save lives.