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  • Good afternoon and welcome back to Downing Street for today's Corona virus press briefing.

  • I'm joined by our deputy medical deputy chief medical officer, Professor Jonathan Phantom, on by the chief nurse Ruth May.

  • Ah, plan is to save as many lives as possible by protecting the N hs and preventing it from being overwhelmed.

  • And we're doing this in two ways.

  • Gun by slowing the spread of the virus.

  • And that's why it is so important that people stay at home.

  • And that's true for everyone who's watching how important it is that we stay at home and two by boosting the capacity of the N HS to care for those who fall sick, that means more beds, more staff, more lifesaving equipment on DME or effective treatments will come on to that.

  • Corona virus continues its grim march like a report that through the government's ongoing monitoring and testing program, according to the latest figures, as of this morning, a total of 173,784 people have been tested, off whom 38,168 have tested positive, 3605 people have sadly died.

  • We reminded again today that for the n hs, this truly is the front line in the last 24 hours to nurses on to health care assistance tragically died fighting Corona virus.

  • Every life lost to this dreadful disease makes me Maur determined than ever to push for victory.

  • And today I want to update you with the latest on what we're doing to boost N hs capacity.

  • So the capacity we have to care is always above the need for that care.

  • First, we're delivering Maur critical care bets.

  • This morning I attended the opening of the New Nightingale Hospital in East London with Ruth and many others.

  • It was planned, constructed and fully staffed in just nine days.

  • And that is next standing achievement.

  • I picked pay tribute to Ruth and all who've been involved in its construction.

  • It shows what's possible when we come together as one team in one national effort, I pay tribute to the extraordinary work of everyone the n hs, the military, the construction industry, who both donated supplies and of course, their expertise at the engineers, the electrician's, the plumbers, the caterers and others A ll playing their part to build a place of hope and a place of healing.

  • It was really inspiring to go and see the sheer scale of it and the teamwork going on there.

  • And lastly I want to thank you.

  • I want to thank everyone who is at home because you are giving the N hs the time to expand so that it Consejo lives by staying at home.

  • You are saving lives.

  • We have more nightingale hospitals planned on on the way in Birmingham and Manchester and Glasgow.

  • And today we've announced that we will begin the work on to further Nightingale hospitals in Bristol and Hargett.

  • The bristle nightingale will have a capacity of up to 1000 beds and in Harrogate, a capacity of up to 500 the Nightingale hospitals are not only are not the only expansion we've seen across the neck chest since the start of this crisis, we've boosted the number of critical care beds to care for Corona virus by over 2500.

  • That's before the addition will get from the Nightingale hospitals.

  • And the result of this extraordinary work is that in every hospital in the country we have managed to expand capacity.

  • And as we stand today, over 2000 critical care beds are free and available and they're ready should they be needed.

  • And that's before the Nightingale hospitals come on stream.

  • And of course, we're working round the clock to deliver essential deliveries of P p e across the whole N HS across social care.

  • Key public service is and in all four nations of the UK yesterday, more than 26 million peopIe products were delivered to 281 different organizations.

  • And I've agreed with the Northern Ireland Executive that we will immediately Bree providing more peopie to Northern Ireland to meet their needs.

  • Over five million items, including goggles and aprons and masks over 7000 and it just staff have now been tested on next alongside testing were intensively researching drugs and treatments.

  • Right.

  • Since the start of this crisis, we've been clear that all our plans are based on the best possible science and that science gets better every day.

  • But there's still a lot that we don't know about how to treat and potentially prevent covert 19.

  • So research about treatments is absolutely central to our plan.

  • The U.

  • K of course, has a long tradition that we're very proud off off, being the best in the world in this sort of science.

  • And we are a world leader in clinical trials on We're putting this to use right now, bringing together some of the finest research minds in the country to design new trials, and we're delivering them at record pace as well.

  • We've established three national clinical trials covering each major stage of the disease primary care, hospital care and Krystle Critical Care for the most seriously ill.

  • And just like the nightingale.

  • One of these trousers, in fact, put together in just nine days, which is breathtaking speed.

  • These trials are looking at the effect of existing drugs and steroids repurposed for treatment off Covert 19 1 of the trials, which is called Recovery, which deals in hospital care, is the largest of its kind in the world, with 926 patients enrolled.

  • We've also set up an Expert Therapeutics task force to search for and short list other camp candidate medicines for trials, and I'm advised on that work by my brilliant colleague Jonathan Van Tam, the deputy chief medical officer who is one of the finest research scientists of his generation on Jonathan will say a bit more about this in a few minutes.

  • We need more patients to volunteer to be part of these trials because the bigger the trials, the better the data on the faster we can roll out the treatments if and only if it's proven to work.

  • These treatments will help us as the science develops, but fun now, the only way to protect yourself and your family from this disease is to stay at home.

  • And, of course, while this is a national effort to find these treatments, it's also an international effort in the same way that we've donated more money to the global search for a vaccine than any other country.

  • So, too, we will lead the world in the science of these treatments on whatever we learn we will share because we are all on the same side in this war.

  • Earlier today, aspect to my counterparts in the G seven to coordinate our research efforts over this and other things on whether it's treatments or equipment or N hs capacity, we will strain every sin.

  • You we will move whatever mountains need to be moved.

  • We need everyone to keep playing their part.

  • And that includes you.

  • The only way to protect yourselves and others now is to stay at home with one final thing I want to say is this.

  • We're set for a warm weekend in some parts of the country, but the disease is still spreading, and we absolutely cannot afford to relax social distancing measures that we have in place.

  • 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'm not going to hand over to Roof.

  • May the chief nurse to say a little bit about the Nightingale Hospital and then to Jonathan Van Town to talk about the treatments and the data that we've got room.

  • Thank you, Secretary of State.

  • Before I talk about the Nightingale Hospital in London, I want to recognize that today we have had the very sad news off the loss of two of my colleagues we have lost today.

  • Amia rukh Onda Neema Nash green two registered nurses working to protect our public and they suddenly have died.

  • My sincere condolences to their families, their friends on dhe, their colleagues because they were one of us, they were one off my profession off the energy s family.

  • I worry that there's going to be more and I want to honor them today and recognize their service.

  • So as the Secretary of State said we were with evil on His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, he was joining via video cameras.

  • We he opened the first n hs Nightingale Hospital in London.

  • It was an extraordinary feat.

  • People have worked so hard from all sorts of ways.

  • It works of life, all sorts of backgrounds on they've come together as one team to build N.

  • H s hospital, an enormous piece of work off absolute huge as the secretary of State of said, where he's announced to further facilities in have a gate for the people of the Northeast and in Bristol for the people off the southwest.

  • And of course, that's alongside Birmingham and Manchester.

  • So thank you to all of our N.

  • H s staff, all of our staff across into social care whether that's nurses, midwives, doctors, all of them pulling together to make sure that we continue to prepare for cove it.

  • 19.

  • Serge, I'm grateful for all of our frontline staff on all of our support staff who are caring as a team for sick patients.

  • But I'm very grateful to you the British public for your patients on din helping R N h s.

  • As the secretary state said, this weekend is going to be very warm and it's very tempting to go out and enjoy those summer rays.

  • But please, I ask you to remember Amy on Arema.

  • Please stay at home for them.

  • Thank you, Ruth on dhe Jonathan Bantam If you could bring us up to speed on the treatments on dawn, the latest data that we have thank you Secretary of State.

  • I'll begin with the data on the first slide.

  • I want to show you is a survey which shows the behavioral change as off 29th of March in relation to the social distancing advice that the government has given.

  • As you can see on slide if you begin on the left, there is a small increase in mobility within residential settings.

  • This actually is good because it shows people are staying at home.

  • If you then contrast that with the bars further to the right, which move progressively through grocery and pharmacy, through public parks, through workplaces, through transit stations and finally to retail and recreation, you can see progressively larger declines in mobility across the UK This is really very encouraging indeed, and shows that the British public are following the advice that was given to them.

  • But it needs to continue.

  • Next light, please.

  • If you then move on and you look at the change in transport use between the fifth of March on just a few days ago, you can see dramatic declines across the peace in total motor vehicles and in use of national rail buses on tubes in London.

  • This again is very encouraging Next life.

  • However, as we have always said, we do not expect these changes to turn the curve on this awful disease immediately.

  • It will take time, and as you can see, this slide shows the number of U K cases by day and you can see the numbers are increasing.

  • This remains a dangerous time.

  • It remains vitally important that people continue to stay at home and practice the social distancing that we've asked off them even this weekend as the weather turns warmer.

  • Next line, please.

  • You will see a similar picture for hospital admissions that they are increasing.

  • And again, this reinforces the advice we give the final slide.

  • Please shows the comparison of the UK in relation to various other countries on the index is set at the first day in each country when 50 deaths were reported.

  • And you can see from this slide that it is a global battle and that the U.

  • K.

  • Is in the same situation.

  • In terms of the curve in the shape of the curve, as many, many other countries around the world.

  • This is a serious battle.

  • We need to keep fighting it.

  • But now like to talk about clinical trials.

  • If you could take the slide down.

  • Thank you.

  • Um, the first thing I want to say is that this is a new disease where at the moment we do not have any probe in treatments.

  • The UK is absolutely determined, however, to find effective treatments for this virus disease.

  • Weeks ago, we began to look at clinical trials.

  • We may not have publicized it at that point, but a lot of work has been going on for weeks.

  • Behind the scenes, clinical trials are a gold standard way to discover if the treatment works or not.

  • But saying whether it works or not is rather too simplistic.

  • The treatment has to be effective.

  • It also has to be safe.

  • And we also have to understand the right dosage to use the right patients to give the treatment, too, on the right time in the illness to give that treatment.

  • This is complicated stuff on.

  • The only way to unpick the signal and make sure we get it right is through clinical trials.

  • And as my colleague, the secretary of state has said, there are three trials already up and running in the UK that target different places in the patient pathway from primary care through to critical care.

  • And the recruitment rate has been absolutely astonishing, particularly in the recovery trial, where we are at 926 patients some three weeks after the trial began.

  • It's astonishing.

  • It really is a fantastic tribute to the fact that the N.

  • H.

  • S is getting on with delivering care, but at the same time is committed to finding the right effective treatments.

  • Now again, a secretary status said, our initial focus has been on what we call repurposed medicines medicines that all are already licensed for some other use or indication, um, an example would be hydroxy Clara Quinn, which is a malaria drug.

  • Another example in our clinical trials would be a combination of the pin of Aaron Ritter Olivia, which is an HIV treatment.

  • So we are going for the foreground targets in the first instance where we already have a drug that is licensed.

  • But we're just not stopping there.

  • We are determined in the next round of clinical trials to move on to new medicines, ones that are in what we call face to face three development now, possibly for something else but which might have a role to play.

  • And we're going to explore all of those technologies.

  • And to do this, we're going to need this therapeutics task force that we have set up to keep an oversight on to coordinate this.

  • No, I know that there'll be a question about when are we going to get some results from these clinical trials, and my straight answer to you is, I don't know.

  • I think it's going to be a few months, but it will all depend upon how quickly patients are recruited into the trials across the N h s.

  • The faster we go in getting bigger numbers in the trials that clearer and more emphatic and more granular signals we will get about what works and who it works for.

  • Thank you, Thank you very much.

  • So if we now go Thio questions at the first question is going to be from Hugh Pin of the BBC.

  • Thank you very much.

  • It's a question, actually for Jonathan Van Tom, If I may, when do you expect the peak of the epidemic to be?

  • But at that point, will the N.

  • H.

  • S have enough ventilators to give those who need critical care that care at a time when some patients might fear they won't be able to get it?

  • Thank you for the two questions.

  • The 1st 1 is about when we will turn this curve round when we're going to peak on when we're going to come down.

  • Um, we don't know the answer to that yet.

  • We have always said that we will know if our social distancing measures are working a few weeks after we have put them in place on by.

  • My quick calculation were a kind of 10 or 11 days at the moment, so it's too soon to say it will partly depend upon how well those social distancing measures are adhered to by every one of us.

  • But I hope it will be soon.

  • We're going to watch very carefully to see when we've hit the peak on when we're starting to turn it.

  • But we will not take any premature actions were going to stick with science and see where it takes us.

  • Your second question is kind of related and about how tall the peak will be and whether there will be enough ventilator capacity across the N.

  • H.

  • S.

  • I can tell you that I don't think we're anywhere close to that kind of scenario at the moment.

  • We will watch it extremely closely, and we will make decisions as we need to on a day by day basis.

  • But I repeat, we are not anywhere close to the scenario you describe at the moment.

  • Thanks very much.

  • If we go to Robert Peston of TV.

  • Hi, Robert.

  • Now.

  • Afternoon, gentlemen.

  • Firstly, on the clinical trials, John Van Tom said the success depends to a certain extent on the numbers enrolled in those trials.

  • Was that actually a call to individuals with symptoms to enroll in those trials?

  • Are you looking for volunteers?

  • Secondly, very recently, Patrick Balance told the Healthy Commit Select Committee that on the basis of the lag between infections and deaths, he thought they were probably 1000 people in the community with this virus for every death.

  • Does that mean we think we're not far off four million people infected?

  • Or if you want a new rule of thumb now that we're slightly further on, I'm and then finally, Secretary State, you're well aware because of ministers and people, you know that the range of symptoms you can get with this is very broad indeed.

  • So, for example, there's a lot of evidence that losing sense of smell and taste is a symptom.

  • Are you looking at changing the guidelines to people from for when they quarantine?

  • Because at the moment you're saying, you know, self isolate.

  • If it's a high fever and a cough but you're gonna add to the list of symptoms where people should start self isolate.

  • Well, thank you if I just if I answer the some of that and then I'll cast over T j B T on the last one, which you addressed directly to me.

  • Robert, it's complimentary of you to ask me a scientific medical question, but I am going to resist the temptation toe.

  • Answer it because we've got a proper medical scientist in the room on.

  • We are following the science for me.

  • Personally, I did lose my sense of taste on DDE.

  • That actually is.

  • It's come back, though I can, so I can assure people who have lost their sense of taste that the good news is that that in my case, that wasn't permanent.

  • Ah, nde are just on the first point about the clinical trials that the answer is that we are looking for people to sign up to the clinical trials where that's possible within that hospital on where that is clinically advised.

  • This is the call really is to the to the N hs who are the ones who would make recommendations that somebody would be honor clinical trial J.

  • V team want to add to those two questions and also answer Roberts Middle question on the on the rate of infection is thank you very much.

  • I will answer those questions on the point about loss of taste and smell and Naz mia.

  • We have actually asked our expert advisory committee nerve tag to look at this.

  • And there are some anecdotal data that are around the published domain that suggests that a proportion of people do indeed lose their sense of taste and smell.

  • However, we have looked at the data that there are in relation to weather that on its own is a symptom that would be important to add to the case definition on The answer to that from our experts is absolutely not that, yes, this is true or as far as we can tell on limited data, it appears to be true.

  • But it doesn't contribute anything on its own to the overall affinity of the diagnosis.

  • On the second point about volunteers for clinical trials, people will have read in the newspapers.

  • Sometimes when a new drug is being tried, that there's an advert and you ring up a new volunteer for the clinical trial.

  • This is very, very different scenario here.

  • These air about patients who are undergoing treatment at some stage for covert 19.

  • First of all, we need the physicians in charge of their care to sign up.

  • Four the clinical trial.

  • And then it is up to the physicians to approach the patient and ask them if they would like to take part.

  • And it's a process of very careful, written, informed consent for that to happen.

  • But the straight answer is yes.

  • We do need people to take part in the clinical trials, and they are doing for the recovery trial.

  • Yesterday's figure reported to me was a little over 700 patients into the trial.

  • Today I'm walking on my way to 10 Downing Street.

  • On the number comes through of 926.

  • This is really fantastic work by both clinicians on by patients on your final point about are there more people out there than we are counting through the case numbers?

  • Um, now, testing is based primarily at the moment in hospitals where it is needed most, and there will be further cases out there.

  • People who are isolating in accordance with the guidelines who have covert 19 who we have not counted in the official statistics, how large that is.

  • I wouldn't like to speculate any follow up to that.

  • I just well, it was simply that Patrick violence did use a ratio of 1 to 1000.

  • I just I mean, it was a rule of thumb that he thought was useful.

  • Do you have a rule of thumb and a tit moment or you know you personally, Jonathan think that's not terribly helpful?

  • No, it's not that I don't think it's terribly helpful.

  • That's the official advice we've had through the scientific advisory group for emergencies.

  • But obviously there's a lot of imprecision associated with those kind of estimates, and I think it's probably all helpful at this point to try and nail it down.

  • I think that the another way toe add to that is that Pillar four off the testing strategy is, is having survey tests to try to find the answer to that question a scientifically as possible on there's a huge amount of work underway under Pillow.

  • For if we go Thio Sam Coates from Skye, please Thank you, Tim at Hancock earlier today you seem to indicate that you did think that Easter Sunday, April 12th would be the projected peak for current virus deaths.

  • But Jonathan Van Tom doesn't seem to quite endorse that when speaking just now.

  • What?

  • Why is that?

  • What's what's going on there?

  • And secondly, to all of you, there are people, some elderly, some disabled, being told by GPS today that they fit into the category or do not resuscitate that they won't be taken to hospital, that they won't be treated.

  • What do you say to them?

  • To their families?

  • Should they fight those minute that those do not resuscitate messages and notices?

  • Or should they just accept what their tones?

  • Thank you, the on the 1st 1 of those?

  • The truth is that we don't know.

  • I think you've over interpreted my comment.

  • I was asked about these a suggestion earlier, and I said that I I I answered the same, which is that we don't know on Dhe.

  • Actually, there's a reason we don't know, and that's because it depends on how people act.

  • And this is why the absolute central message, the most important message that anybody can take away from this press conference or the entirety off the government's messaging on dhe.

  • How we feel is that you've got to stay at home, and I know we repeat this, but it is really important because the more people stay at home, the faster that we will get through this.

  • On the question off off Deanna's I hand over Thio roof.

  • Absolutely so conditions.

  • My clinical colleagues have these discussions all of the time, with patients and their families.

  • Thinking about the wish is thinking about what the care being planned on that's right and proper covert 19 is no excuse to have those discussions, and it's on insensitive way.

  • But these discussions need to happen all of the time, with with families on dhe the with patients themselves.

  • But it is nothing it needs to be, didn't sensitively and is not coping.

  • 90 should not be used as an excuse to do that quite separately.

  • Thanks very much.

  • If we go to Liz Bates of China for highlights, I if if I could, I make my questions primarily at Matt Hancock.

  • First of all, you hugely raised expectations when you said that 3.5 million antibody tests had been ordered and would be widely available.

  • Now you're saying they don't work?

  • Um, are these tests ever going to materialize on Dhe?

  • Secondly, if I may, countries which have carried out more tests than the UK have had fewer deaths.

  • Her 1,000,000 has the decision to carry out a few tests in places like Germany and South Korea cost lives here.

  • Thanks.

  • I could take both those questions.

  • We have provisionally ordered 17.5 1,000,000 not 3.5 1,000,000 antibody tests.

  • But as I've been absolutely clear all along, we could will only use them if they work on.

  • In fact, on the G seven call earlier, it's clear that no G seven country has yet found a home antibody test, which is Pillar three of the testing strategy that works, but we continue to search for one again.

  • This is an area where the science is constantly developing on dhe.

  • There's a huge amount of global effort going into finding one of these tests that does work, but I've also been clear that we've put in the orders in place so that should they work, then we condemn them here in the UK on dhe on the on the second point.

  • Can you remind me of the second question that we haven't talked about?

  • Not about the numbers testing.

  • Yeah, The The truth is, we've had a clear ramp up in testing as part of the strategy.

  • From the start, we had just under 2000 tests a day.

  • A month ago, I set the goal of reaching 10,000 day on.

  • We have reached that on dhe.

  • We hit that on target at the end of March on.

  • And now we've got the clear goal off 100,000 test today.

  • By the end of April, there are there are countries that have tested more than us, like Germany, as you mentioned.

  • But there's others like like France, that haven't tested as much of us.

  • The the question of the correlations is a very complicated one, with lots of factors in it.

  • I don't know if you want to have anything.

  • Yes, I would have just something sector state on the the quality of tests.

  • It's absolutely vitally important on any test in medicine, any test is never 100% accurate.

  • That is a truism on the wrong antibody test that isn't accurate.

  • Is going to say to some people, You have antibodies when you don't It is also going to say to another selection of the population, Um, you are not immune when you are.

  • And so it's really important that these are rigorously evaluated so that the tolerances on those error rates are very low indeed.

  • And we have to get that right before we can even think about how we can use these antibody tests in the most advantageous and informative way for everyone.

  • Thanks very much.

  • Andy Bell, Channel five.

  • Thank you very much.

  • A quick follow up to you, Mr Hancock.

  • A lot to Lizzie's question.

  • How we spent any money on those 17 million tests we've ordered and then a question for Professor Van term.

  • Twice this week.

  • One of your colleagues, Stephen Paris from N.

  • Hs, England, has talked about seeing green shoots.

  • Is that the way you would characterize what you're seeing at the moment in the data?

  • Well, on the first question, of course, the samples that we've got in, we've needed toe pay for those samples because they're being tested.

  • But what matters here really is that is these tests.

  • If we can get them if they're accurate, if they can work, If we've got the confidence in them that we can use them on, then the positive impact that will have on people knowing with confidence that they can get back to normal life more quickly will vastly outweigh any Any cost s o of course, Costas consideration.

  • But frankly, getting a test that works is, uh is worth is worth more than just more than just money.

  • J b z Thank you on the green shoots.

  • The answer to your question is where you look for them.

  • I absolutely see green shoots.

  • I really do in terms of the massive change in public behavior that's already taken place.

  • If that continues for as long as the government asks for it to continue, then they really will be quite big green shoots in the end.

  • However, if you're asking me about the health care hospital admission data, then I think it is too early to make any kind of interpretation such as that there will be a day to day variations in the number of hospital admissions that occur as a feature of near random chance.

  • And so one mustn't interpret the data one needs to be patient and look for a long term trend.

  • Thanks very much.

  • We're gonna go to Martin Brown off the express.

  • Hi, Martin.

  • I think the time's up.

  • Can I ask what missions help is being given to the mental well being?

  • Thousands of patients who were in hospital on their own, many a tumor sadly dying without their loved ones by their side.

  • On dhe, the same gaze will take.

  • The pregnant women is, well, women giving birth.

  • What?

  • What help is being given to their mental?

  • Well being onto the medic?

  • Correct.

  • But can I just ask, Is there any benefit in wearing a face mask?

  • The public wearing place must, when they go outside countries such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, where the use of face mask is more prevalent in the public, they have lower levels off infections on best virus.

  • Thanks, Martin.

  • I really worry about the impact of Corona virus on the mental health of those who are badly affected.

  • Andi, I really feel those who have seen their loved ones die and not been able to be with them at the end on Dhe.

  • I think this is Ah, it's a really difficult issue that we have to make sure that we we support people with compassion and understanding for what they're going through.

  • We have put £5 million into support mind to help people with the impact of Corona virus on their mental health.

  • But this is going to be, I think, a knish you of increasing importance as the as the crisis goes on, I'm going to ask route to say something about that and also about the maternity question on then if J v t out, says the second question, Really, thank you very much.

  • I was only on a phone call this morning to Sebastian, who's a doctor, medical colleague of mine.

  • And he had lost his father from Cove in 19 on Dhe, hearing his story about the extraordinary lengths that the nurses, the matron on that night shift, had gone to to make sure they were to be able to connect a conversation with his brother in Singapore to be able to connect, make sure the battery was fully charged for his dad to be able to have numerous phone calls I am seeing across the United Kingdom, nurses, midwives, the whole of our clinical team's going to extraordinary lengths to make sure we absolutely do that.

  • Whilst we know that visiting has being reduced to the absolute limit, it is also we are saying that visitors are able to go of course for people with end of life care.

  • But technology is really important.

  • But looking the well bid off our patients is really important, but also well being of our staff.

  • We need to make sure that we're setting out measures to look after our staff as well.

  • I didn't get quite the maternity question Secretary State.

  • So would you mind repeating that one?

  • It was just the same, really.

  • And what, what some help is being given to women who are alone in hospital without their loved ones from giving birth.

  • We are very fortunate to work with Professor Jackie Donkey Bent.

  • Our chief made a free officer who provides enormous, fantastic Madrid free leadership across England.

  • What she's been telling me is that midwives yet again are doing exactly the same.

  • They're going to extraordinary lengths to make sure they're using technology using Zoom, using all of the technology to make sure people are connected.

  • There's been plenty of people that are doing just that to make sure that families can get together when they can safely to connect with the new.

  • They're new members of their families.

  • Thanks for on the second question, deputy.

  • Yeah, I just begin on the first, actually to say, You know, I realize this is an awful on distressing illness.

  • Andi.

  • I'm very distressed personally when I hear these stories of families separated, but I hear everything that's going on in that space.

  • It's it's really terrible.

  • But to your evidence point about face masks on wearing a face masks by the general public, This has been a controversial area in pandemic preparedness and planning for fit the 15 years that I've been involved in it on dhe.

  • Indeed, I was on the phone this morning to a colleague in Hong Kong Who's, ah, professor there?

  • Who's done the evidence review for the World Health Organization on face masks on.

  • We're off the same mind that there is no evidence that general wearing of face masks by the public who are, well, effects that spread off the disease in our society.

  • What matters right now?

  • Of course, it's social distancing, and um, yes, it is true that we do see very large amounts off mask wearing it, particularly in Southeast Asia.

  • But we have always seen that for many decades, and it is entirely wired into some cultures that masks are worn quite frequently in open spaces, so it's very different.

  • But in terms of the hard evidence and what the U.

  • K government recommends, we do not recommend face masks for general wearing by the public.

  • Thanks very much.

  • I hope that answers the question.

  • Martin pretty clear.

  • Dan Martin from the male Mr Hancock, you said that if people don't obey the rules, you would consider toughening the lock down this place in a moment in France.

  • Destination in police, a railway stations of installing murderer checkpoints to check where people are going.

  • Is that the sort of thing we might see happening here into the Scientists Institute of Biomedical Science has come out today to say that the able target is practically impossible because they don't have the equipment to chemicals they need.

  • Are you concerned about that?

  • Thank you very much.

  • The we rule nothing out in terms of further social distancing.

  • If that is needed or further enforcement of social distancing.

  • However, the British public are in the very large part following the new rules on the police are policing them with the with their largely with then normal consent based attitude and approach.

  • And I pay tribute to the police because bringing in a new set of rules like this, in short order does of course provide a challenge to the police.

  • And I think that they have risen to that to that challenge.

  • On the second question off, the testing were absolutely determined to hit the new goal off 100,000 tests a day under A ll five pillars off the testing trust re that I set out Yes, that will involve some challenges.

  • There's no doubt, including making sure we get hold of all of the parts, for instance, and all of the re agents on dhe.

  • Everybody, you can see that there are challenges around the world in terms of increasing testing.

  • But we're determined that we're going to get there and this is going to have to be a national effort in which not only my team and the people of public health England on across the chest, but the whole life sciences industry is going to have to play a part.

  • I've been really delighted by the response since I set that challenge down at this press conference yesterday on dhe.

  • For more people have come forward saying that they can turn their capabilities to increasing testing on dhe.

  • We're gonna have to hit that target J B Teldyn.

  • Whether he was right.

  • No secular state.

  • I think you've answered the question.

  • Have you got any follow up?

  • Down.

  • It's not okay, that's fine.

  • Thanks.

  • Okay.

  • Good stuff, Martin.

  • Bag it from the mirror.

  • Hello, I Good afternoon.

  • Sector of state.

  • At yesterday's briefing when you promised 100,000 daily tests by the end of the month, you seem to acknowledge only 25,000 of these were likely to be the more urgently needed Auntie gin test, which can tell if a patient court has the virus.

  • Prime Minister promised 25,000 daily antigen tests last month.

  • I'm not delivering on this.

  • Appears to have been delayed until the end of April, given you acknowledged today that we expect the peak to come in the next fortnight and Germany is increasing its antigen test from 70,000 today.

  • Do you think this could come too little, too late on?

  • Certainly.

  • Uh, could we have some clarification on the national locked down guidance on the eve of what looks like being a sunny weekend given, many families don't have access to a garden.

  • Can people spend time in green spaces, for example, having a picnic for an hour, so long as they're in household groups?

  • Or is it just a case of jungle?

  • Walk for an hour and then go home?

  • Thanks very much, Martin.

  • Just on the 1st 1 I want to be crystal clear that the gold that I said yesterday was 100,000 tests per day over a ll, five pillars of the testing strategy pillow, one at which has brought us to 10,000 tests per day.

  • That is set and we always set to get to 25,000 by the end off April.

  • But pillar to which is bringing in the private companies to also deliver.

  • That is part of the goal, as is Pillar three, which is the anti jin testes.

  • See whether you've had the virus.

  • Pillar four, which is the research on Pila five, which is the national effort to bring companies that haven't hitherto been involved in testing into this great challenge s o the way we, in fact, increased the goal from the end of April for the end of April from that 25,000 to 100,000 on, then we will go on to meet the target that the prime minister has previously set out of eventually 250,000 Tess per day.

  • This is all it was all as a set out on yesterday, answering that specific question on dhe on the question about how what people should do over the weekend.

  • It is incredibly important that people follow the guidelines on.

  • I know that it's going to be sunny, and it may be tempting, but it's staying at home that saves lives.

  • And I think we should just be absolutely crystal clear about that.

  • With the guidelines have been set out in terms of people going out for exercise reasons, either on their own or brute with people in their household.

  • People need to stick to the guidelines, and we're going to stick with those guidelines.

  • Thanks very much.

  • Martin Jen Williams from The Manchester Evening News.

  • Hi, Jen.

  • I thank you.

  • A couple of questions in the house.

  • Actually, if I may, We're getting reports here on been reports elsewhere as well.

  • Of care homes being told that the residents may not be admitted to hospital if they have suspected greater virus.

  • They've already been cases where a significant number of people in this single care home have died.

  • Including insulted is the blanket policy across the system not to have met their home residents into hospital.

  • Um, and second else, one social care there were there were growing concerns, is insufficient pp and trusted with such a hole that counts, is now home to source their own but finding that their basic escalating prices on.

  • But there are fears, more broadly that we should caress him to not being prioritized national level.

  • So social care and afterthought in this on just finally on PP is a hole Army unit.

  • Do we have a national stockpile on how many is government expecting to need joined the corps about?

  • Okay, thank you very much indeed.

  • For those three questions are the 1st 1 on care homes.

  • It is absolutely not a blanket rule that people shouldn't go to hospital from Care Homes Hospital is therefore people when they need it.

  • When the When the doctors advised that they go on, Do we have 2029 spare critical care beds in the N HS right now?

  • 2000 and 29 That is, that is, before we bring on stream the Nightingale hospitals on.

  • That is testament to the n hs.

  • You've done amazing work.

  • They've already expanded the number of critical care beds by over by 2.5 1004 covert 19 patients.

  • And so there is capacity in the hospital's right now to deal with covert 19 on dhe.

  • There is no blanket rule.

  • It is a clinical judgment about when somebody goes to hospital.

  • I don't know if we might want to add something on that on on the p p e question we have We have millions of pieces of peopie in the stockpile.

  • Andi, I can make sure that we get the exact figure to you.

  • I haven't got it on me, but the But we're also replenishing it all the time because once we have a very large stockpile, we're also using it.

  • Andi.

  • So we've got to make sure that we replenish it were replenishing it both from buying internationally, where much of it traditional has been made and also making it domestically.

  • I'll give a shout out to Burberry, have turned over their production to the production of gowns for toe, add to the stockpile and to get peopIe to people who need it, which is a another part of the national effort.

  • I think Burberry deserve credit for what they've done so far for the nation.

  • Hopefully, lots more Burberry gowns to come.

  • Ruth, I don't know if you want points.

  • Thank you very much.

  • Sexual state.

  • So by the care, homes, whoever.

  • My mother in law Millie lives in a care home, and that is her home.

  • So clinicians from whatever background will make a decision based on the clinical need off that person as to whether they need a hospital care, because that's the important part.

  • With regard to Social K.

  • I know that after the 6000 nurses, they're coming back onto our emergency register.

  • Some of those are opting to go into social care, and I'm delighted to see that we're offering people the option of coming into our hospital's coming into our primary care setting, but also into social care.

  • And I'm going to be monkey sure that we continue to do that, but that over the next a few weeks to Does that answer the question general that it does on the people.

  • I mean, obviously, I you said you'd come back on the numbers in terms of how many you got on the stock part.

  • But you know how many you're going to need over the course of a year of the pandemic?

  • Well, it depends how long the pandemic last were, but at the moment we are distributing many millions of pieces every day.

  • In the last 24 hours, it was 26 million.

  • Over the last couple of weeks, it's around 400 million, so you can see that we're getting through it fast on DSO.

  • We're replenishing it at the other end as fast as we can.

  • The challenge, in PP, is a challenge of distribution rather than challenge of having the having the stock.

  • I also didn't answer your question about social care with peopIe because it's incredibly important to me that we get the protective equipment that we need.

  • Two people working in social care as well as in the N HS on all parts of the chest on Dhe, the new peopIe guidance that we set out yesterday, which has got very broad support, and that that pride that sets out what sort of peopie is appropriate in what sort of setting, and we will deliver that pee pee into social care.

  • I know that it's a challenge, not least because there's around 26,000 social care settings combination of care homes on organizations that provide care in people's homes.

  • And so it is more complicated than delivering to the N HS.

  • But the priority of getting the right peopie to social care is exactly the same as the priority of getting the right p p e r to the n hs on.

  • That's what the system with the support of the military is doing.

  • Thank you very much indeed.

  • That's I think that's all we've got time for today, But no doubt there'll be more to come in these daily press conferences.

  • I'm very grateful to all of the questions, and I'm very grateful to both Jonathan Bantam on Dhe Ruth May for answering the questions with me.

Good afternoon and welcome back to Downing Street for today's Corona virus press briefing.

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