good evening three more people have
tested positive in the UK for
coronavirus with Northern Ireland
confirming its first case tonight all of
them were infected after traveling to
Italy or Tenerife then I've been treated
at specialist NHS infection centres to
date more than a seven and a half
thousand people in the UK have been
tested for the virus sixteen were
positive eight of them have now been
discharged from hospital but with more
cases expected to emerge the government
is set to launch a new public health
campaign fears about the impact the
virus could have on the global economy
has caused markets to plunge today more
on that in a moment but first as our
health editor Hugh Pym another
frustrating day for British tourists
confined in quarantine at this Tenerife
Hotel an Italian visitor tested positive
for the corona virus on Monday there was
confusion when the local health minister
said 50 Britons who'd arrived since
Monday were free to leave they seemed to
have decided not to as advice from their
travel agent and the Foreign Office was
to stay put meanwhile apparent at this
school in Derbyshire who'd returned from
Tenerife tested positive the school was
closed for a deep-clean a local GP
practice also asked patients to stay
away because of the case one of two
diagnosed in England today and tonight
confirmation by Northern Ireland health
Chiefs of the first case there the
patient had travelled from northern
Italy public health staff here are no
working rapidly to identify any contacts
the patient has had with the aim of
preventing further spread all of that
has further fueled public interest in
the virus and getting tested the NHS is
expanding the options including this
drive-through facility we were given the
first look at how it works
Lora here is a member of NHS staff she's
just going to demonstrate what actually
happens so she stays in the car she
winds down the window and then two
members of the nursing team will come
out to meet her one of them has got the
full protective equipment on a colleague
stands back at a safer distance
erricka the senior nurse shows
information about the procedure and then
carries out nasal and throat swabs
they're sent off for testing people are
referred here by NHS one-one-one if they
don't have symptoms but need to self
isolate they get through 12 tests a day
the aim is to roll out facilities like
this across the country one key question
how to protect yourself the message from
health leaders is that masks don't
necessarily help much they say that
careful hand hygiene is the best way to
slow any spread of the virus a new
public information campaign like this is
set to be launched soon it is washing
your hands with soap and hot water or
using alcohol and sanitized gels if you
want to sneeze or cough use a tissue and
then bin it all of these things will
keep you in your family safe so how
prepared is the NHS coronavirus pods
have been created at leading hospitals
to allow safe testing the NHS
one-one-one helpline will be expanded
and if there are a lot more cases NHS
leaders say hospitals will be able to
cope I know the NHS is busy and we're
coming out of winter but we are well
prepared to manage this sort of
circumstance we do it every winter when
we know we will see high rates of
influenza for instance so we have a
blueprint to work on but health experts
are concerned by the global spread of
the virus one said tonight it was an
unprecedented challenge to health
systems economies and societies Kuban
BBC news well stock markets around the
world have plunged as investors get
seriously worried about the corona virus
and the impact it could have on global
economies it's been the worst week on
the market since the financial crisis in
2008 Michelle Fleury
is in New York for us now and today has
been particularly bad
yeah I mean this was not a day for the
faint-hearted certainly if you ask any
trader from the city of London to Wall
Street we've seen yet again sharp drops
in the in the prices of stocks all of
this being driven by investors who are
basically pretty worried about what is
happening with the coronavirus over a
hundred and fifty billion pounds has
been wiped off the value of the 50 in
the last four days and here on Wall
Street
you've seen the Dow Jones Industrial
basically just suffer its biggest points
loss in history it also joins other
markets slumping into a correction which
is a drop of more than 10 percent over a
period of days and the price of oil
continues to fall sharply what is
happening is that investors are trying
to do what everyone else is and that is
to predict what will happen next how far
and how fast will this virus spread the
impact on corporate profits could be
severe if you start to see offices
closed people stop traveling and people
stop shopping we even had a warning from
one of the big Wall Street banks Goldman
Sachs saying it could tip the us into
recession Michelle in York thank you
well corona virus has spread to 50
countries now and reached every
continent except Antarctica worldwide
there have been more than 82 thousand
cases and 2,800 deaths
almost all of them in China in Japan
where they're preparing for this
summer's Olympics all state schools are
too closed for a month in a bid to stop
the further spread of the virus the vast
majority of the deaths in China have
been in Hebei the province where the
outbreak began our China correspondent
john sud Werth has been speaking to one
doctor who is on the frontline in Wuhan
regarding my autumn earth at the end of
a tough shift fighting the virus a
doctor steps out onto the streets of a
deserted cities they thaw them out all
that Wuhan is still in total lockdown
hello dr. Xie hey how are you in an
officially approved interview with dr.
shared yang they're gonna go Yaya as
well as in videos provided to us the BBC
has been given rare access to a man on
the frontline of a war which he says is
being won
I came to Han one month ago our patients
were pouring into the hospital like a
tide and okay now we do not have enough
bad that's available for it for everyone
I think these things are holding up
better right now
Wuhan shows what the virus can do to a
health system the thousands of extra
beds have begun to make a difference but
there are still major challenges I'm now
at his factory with those mortality I
still think immortality is really too
high for patients with severe symptoms
that it is even the mortality is even
higher than SARS that's the thing we
should address right now
this is dr. cher dealing with one of
those severe cases among thousands in
Wuhan no city in the world he says would
have enough specialist equipment to cope
even doctors have died including Lee wen
Liang one of the first to try to warn
about the dangers of the virus only to
be silenced by the police you know I was
very sad when I heard this kind of nose
he's really a big blow for for us for
the whole medical medical stuff do you
think China should learn lessons as a
result of his death
absolutely information disclosure is
really important
I lost a five patients in one night can
you imagine that in one night I lost
five lives
I shouldn't warn the rest of the word
that you guys should take care don't
neglect neglected this disease at the
end of another night shift this time dr.
shear sings a patriotic song he believes
China will win this fight but it's won
the rest of the world may have only just
begun
John Saad worth BBC News Beijing and you
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