Name: 英国首相と保健長官がコロナウイルス検査で陽性反応 (UK Prime Minister and Health Secretary test positive for coronavirus)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T10:22:05.000Z
Duration: 20 min 4 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：新型コロナウイルス,新型肺炎,COVID-19

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Showing his appreciation for any chest stuff last night, we now know the prime Minister was already having symptoms of Corona virus.

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I want to bring you up to speed with something that's happening today, which is that I've developed mild symptoms off the Corona virus.

That's to say, a temperature on dhe, a persistent cough on On the advice of the chief medical officer, I've taken a test that has come out positive.

But be in no doubt that I can continue our thanks to the Wizard of Modern technology to communicate with all my top team to lead the national fight back against Corona bars.

The health secretary, Matt Hancock, seen here just two days ago at Prime Minister's questions, has also tested positive.

I've been working from home over the last couple of days because everybody who can work from home should work from home.

I've also had some mild symptoms of Corona virus on dhe.

Upon medical advice, I was tested that test has been positive, so I'll be self isolating here until next Thursday.

He hasn't been tested but is self isolating.

But if the message from Downing Street was to keep calm and carry on, one senior figure, Dominic Cummings, didn't help.

The prime minister's spokesman later refused to say what exactly had prompted the hasty exit.

The prime minister there, absent from today's press conference, was the subject of it specifically why he and the health secretary have been tested for the virus when many, including Ki n hs workers, still haven't.

Firstly, that you must have clinical symptoms.

The default position without that is you would not be tested on then.

The only other criteria would be the centrality of your role to the cove it 19 Response on DDE.

In this particular case, I'm sure your viewers will understand that the prime minister plays a very critical role in that on that's the basis for our testing and after days of questions over the availability of testing for those on the front line.

Finally, some movement we will be rolling out staff testing across the N.

H s beginning next week, starting with the critical care nurses, other staff in intensive care emergency departments.

Ambulance service is GPS, and as the testing volumes continue to increase, we want to expand that to a wider range.

Off essential public service workers, including our social care service, is as well as, of course, continuing with the patient testing, which is so vital one Cabinet minister, still not self isolating, use the moment to appeal yet again for caution.

I think that many people were effect on the fact that the prime minister succumbing to the virus is a reminder of how seriously we all need to take the advice that the N hs has been giving us.

As if we needed any more proof that the Corona virus doesn't discriminate.

The latest victim, the prime minister, is self isolating here in Downing Street, not at number 10 but behind me in number 11 where he lives.

The chancellor, who would usually be working here, has led him.

His office door between the two properties has been sealed and food will be left on the doorstep for him so that he can work here for the next seven days.

But although this one high profile case will undoubtedly dominate headlines.

The business of steering the country through this crisis has continued.

The government has strengthened protections for renters, instructing courts to suspend any evictions for 90 days.

The housing market has also effectively been frozen, with buyers and renters urged to delay moving and to protect the homeless.

Local authorities have been told to house everyone sleeping rough in hostels and shelters.

By this weekend, Corona virus has taken hold in Westminster and across the country.

And so the numbers with confirmed cases now at 14,579 and the death toll at 759 up by 181 in one day.

All of this puts pressure on the government to show that the action they have taken is working on as the person ultimately responsible.

It could be a lonely few days for Boris Johnson.

We're joined now by Jonathan Powell, who was Downing Street chief of staff under Tony there, and you can tell us perhaps I mean how much this is likely to affect the functioning of government with the prime minister in the health secretary of the chief medical advisor, all isolating well.

So of course lots of people were being affected by this and may well be infected by it on.

It's quite hard to self isolate yourself in a small building like that.

But if the prime minister is not seriously ill, it is possible to continue a business, and he can carry on handling it if he needs to.

I mean that the general scientific predictions.

If you like our that nationally, this is going to keep growing, and so one must assume it will also grow within the government's in Whitehall.

How resilience is the system is pretty resilient because we're not a presidential system.

So unlike the US, we don't have to have a vice president who takes over if the president is shot and then a speaker of the House who take exam graph to that, we have a much more flexible system that the prime minister cancer it.

It usually goes to the next person in line.

So in our case it was John Prescott who is deputy prime minister.

Now it's Dominic Roberts for secretary of state.

After that, they can move it along the normal with presidents at making, also within ministries.

Moved union ministers and move people around.

It's not like people have to be elected to the post like a president.

You get it because you have a majority in the House of Commons.

What what about the ministry's themselves and the officials?

I mean, presumably, they are also suffering the same sorts of absenteeism as everybody else they will be.

But unlike doctors and nurses, it matters a little bit less because they're not frontline staff in terms of going into hospital a potentially giving it to other people S o, they can again be replaced with permanent secretary gets sick, is deputy can take over.

If a head of department gets sick, her deputy can take over.

So get is quite another resilience in our system because it's a parliamentary system because we have a permanent civil service with very large numbers of people and it's obviously be a strain.

What have you made of the way decisions have been made over the last couple of guns?

Well, I think it's very difficult criticize the government in the circumstances.

They're trying to do their best on very, very difficult circumstances.

I think when we look back at it, when the inquiry happens, people may say it was a bit late to move because usually my experience in government was, You have to move quickly.

If you have a crisis like this was something like putting math.

Unless you move quickly, you can't cut it off of the parson.

Maybe that's something to be said after event.

But it's easy to criticize after the event, and now everyone has to concentrate are getting this fixed?

We're in very different times internationally, too.

The banking crisis, for example, or 9 11 if I should try to look a sort of big, comparable events, you know?

Do you think there needs to be Maur International coordination?

Or does it Does the evidence suggest countries are reacting to their own individual circumstances on That's right, what?

They are reacting to their own circumstances.

Is no UK pandemic or French pandemic or US pandemic, and it is a shame that we were better prepared for it.

Everyone knew a pandemic was coming would be better if that had been a better global preparation on those better international cooperation.

In the U, for example, there was a committee of work done to prepare for pandemics, but then it fell apart when everyone went there each way.

And that's one of the things after the event we're going to need to look at.

How do we actually cooperate internationally and think about it for a bit?

Because we're in this difficulty, as the UK developed health system really good.

Natural also is, How's it going to be in Mozambique or in Afghanistan?

In countries that a war where people who are hungry, where their immune systems are down, there's gonna be a whole lot more serious in those countries that is with us?

I mean, how do you think the current situation differs?

I mean, what would you have normally expected in terms of world leadership?

Would you be looking to the Americans normally, what you would normally want us to be that the main leader on this, but on Geeta on the the global economic crisis got Brown immediately started working with the Americans on an answer, then expanded its the G 20 and bought everyone in together.

For example, if South Asia, this ark, the organization brings together India and Pakistan, Afghanistan or these other countries, they've been working together both leader level level of presidents and prime it does, but also the level of officials and health experts.

That's the kind of cooperation that you want.

I mean, we saw Gordon Brown calling for that to happen again.

I mean, it doesn't particularly seem to be happening in light of that.