I'm joined today by Dr Yvonne Door, who is the medical director of Public Health England Before Yvonne fights an update on the latest data from our Cobra coronavirus.

Factfile like to update your steps that we are taking to defeat this I'll step by step.

Action plan is aiming to slow the spread of ours, so fewer people need hospital treatment at any one time.

Protecting the ability of the chest threaten our smallest groan of ours.

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The scientist on medical advice.

We have been deliberate in our actions, taking the one steps at the right time.

We're also taking up percent of action to increase energies capacity, dramatically expanding the number of beds.

Key staff on lifesaving equipment on the front line provide the care when people need it most.

The daily figures showed that a total of 152,000 979 people in the UK have not been tested for credit bars.

All those 29,474 have tested positive.

The number of people admitted to hospital in England with current of rise symptoms is now 10,767 while 3915 of those are in London.

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What there's hospitalized in the UK Sadly, 2352 have died.

This is an increase off 563 fatalities since yes, the youngest of them was just 13 years old.

All our thoughts and prayers over the families and loved ones of those who most their lives.

This is more tragic evidence that this virus does not.

The credit bars pandemic is the biggest threat our country has faced in decades.

With over there all of the world, we are seeing the devastating impact of this invisible.

We recognize the extreme disruption, The mystery actions we are asking people take are having all the lives that businesses jobs are the nation's call me.

I want to thank everyone across our whole country for the huge effort that is being made collectively in tackling the curve in 19 Derek to the frontline workers, treating and caring for patients.

The people delivering supplies, their neighbors on the millions staying at home.

Thank you you are protecting the N hs and saving lives.

I don't think businesses, too, through your support for your workers and your communities and through your willingness to support our health service, you are making a real difference whether it's any else building a new hand side that sanitizer plant the middle spreading.

Just 10 days you see our engineers working with Mercedes Formula One to build you continuous positive airway pressure machines, which helped patients to breathe more easily.

Broadband providers giving their customers unlimited data to stay connected.

Or indeed, loves and Lovers Excel Centre being converted in the Energies Nightingale Hospital with space for 4000 patients.

These are just a few of the examples of businesses from across our great nation supporting life saving work.

There are also thousands of businesses, large and small, which worked with staff to ensure their supported in the days and weeks.

Whether that is through ensuring PhD guidelines a horrible sight implemented fullest teams carrying any relief, providing the means to work for I want to convey my heartfelt fax to all of those businesses up and down the country which are working to keep our economy going.

It's that where this crisis passes, I will we already to bounce back.

Our businesses are doing all the school and I will make it clear the government into will do all it can to support our businesses.

We have already taken unprecedented action to small businesses.

Safeguard jobs, protect, he called me.

From today, businesses will start benefiting from £22 billion in the form of business rates, relief and grounds for £25,000.

What you're being paid into bank accounts with the smallest high street first on Saturday, I said that we had provided funds to counsel's in England grants a small businesses.

As of today, these liberal authorities have received more than £12 billion.

This afternoon I held a call with homes of bigger from peas.

Crossing made clear that this money must reach businesses as quickly as possible.

I know that business is a crossing already started to receive these brats.

We know how I street backs are working really hard to support.

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Through this period, including through mortgage holidays and increased credit facilities, learns of businesses are also being issued to the curb it business interruption musky since it came into operation last week, Chancellor Together back in England on the Financial Pulip Authority road, the chief executives of the U.

K Banks toe urged him to make sure the benefits of the land scheme are passed into businesses and consumers.

I would be completely unacceptable if any bags were unfairly refusing falls to good business is in financial difficulty.

Just as a taxpayer stepped in to help the banks back in 2008 we will work with the bands to do everything they to be paid that favor and support the businesses are people of the United Kingdom in their time of need?

Of course, this is a brand new scheme.

As with all your schemes, it will not be, that's it.

We are missing a long time and in response to concerns that we've heard from businesses, we're looking at ways in which we could ensure they get the support they need.

The Charleston will be saying war on this in the coming days.

It is crucial that when we overcome this prices, as in time, we will.

The businesses are in a good position to move forward.

Times are tough and we have all the times edifice.

But I know that together we will pull through evil.

Thank you.

Secretary of State, I would like to present you with some slides just to give you an update on what is happening across the country and also with the health system.

It could I have slide wrong, please.

On this shows slightly concerning trend because we have seen an uptick in motion the middle of traffic.

So the message here really is People do need to stay at home on most are doing the right thing as you can see from the rapid decline in public transport use.

So everyone needs to do that.

The message here is we need to save lives on to protect the N h s o.

Please stay at home.

Could I have slight to please?

This shows that the number off a new UK cases off today it is slightly concerning.

It's still too early to say whether the pleasure hospital admissions has ended.

But we've now seen three days off increases in a row and again we need to protect the N.

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The best way to do that is to stay at home to avoid catching the disease yourself and obviously avoid giving it to anyone else.

That is the way the Energis can continue to protect us.

Could I have slide three, please?

This slide shows the England hospital admissions.

I think a lot of reporting has been about London, and you can see why on this slide, and that's where Corona virus is most advanced.

But charge shows that the threat is everywhere.

We need to protect the N Hs everywhere, and the Midlands now is obviously a concern.

And it's like four Piece on this is for you.

It is about saving lives on.

This slide shows the global death comparisons that we need to save lives.

As things stand, it has not bean a severe here as in France, and we're just tucked in under the USA and obviously Italy on a different trajectory.

But on Spain and the United States, as we said, but there is no reason to be complacent.

Stato protect the any Jess save lives.

If you vote well now to the Q and A.

The first question is from the BBC Lorcan, I heard my sexual state.

The peak of this disease seems to be coming earlier than the government expected.

But you are missing the testing targets.

There's a huge amount of evidence of staff not having the equipment they desperately needs that were not enough ventilators.

Do you accept now that the approach on response from government has just been too slow?

Laura, thanks very much for that question.

That kind of made it absolutely on the promise that has been breaking about.

This is a swell.

Increasing testing capacity is absolutely the government's top priority.

We're now at 10,000 tests a day.

We're ruling out additional networks of labs and testing sites.

And in terms of PhD of the last two weeks, 319 million products have been distributed.

And, of course, we will continue to do more work to make sure that PG is available.

As you know, there is a hotline is available 24 hour hotline for energy stuff as well, If you want to call it.

Thank you.

Secretary of State.

So, Laura, there is positive news about this.

We commish it, Theo Energy s mpg commissioned to make 10,000 tests a day available.

We have met the target by the end off march early April on DDE that we have some more capacity on our commitment is actually to go to 25,000 tests today on we're confident with our industry partners that we will achieve that.

So that means patients are getting at the test they need.

But there is also spared some spare capacity in that for testing the most urgent healthcare workers.

And alongside that, a secretary state of certain there is a second.

They're strong to front opening.

Andi has already testing a couple of 1000 health care workers in order of priority.

So we are definitely increasing our testing capacity.

Thank you, Laura.

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Thank you a question.

Will you give us the number of ocean front line An interest staff?

You've been tested the creative arts.

You said 2000 is like out of half a 1,000,000 from my managers work with how you intended scale that are on if I made The secretary of State Prime Minister said two weeks ago he wanted to get 1/4 of a 1,000,000 tests today that Mr Vargas an antibody test latest A figures 10,412 tests.

Why is it taking so long?

for reality to match the rhetoric.

Will you give a clear time frame as to when you deliver on the prime Minister's promise?

Thank you.

Section six, Beth and the number off tests undertaken in the energy s at Public Health England combined Testing capacity is just increasing at the moment s Oh, that would be a relatively small number, but there is capacity, for example, today from the street, and that would increase as we get to identify house into that capacity.

But the important capacity is in the second strand, where we will have five on five centers where people can drive through and get the testing done in order of priority.

Any Jess chief executives are identifying that priority onto the intention here is to get from thousands to hundreds of thousands within the coming weeks.

So we are very commission to R.

N H s frontline stuff.

You don't think that nothing, Beth, you've always explained the details in terms off, ramping up testing.

You made particular reference to the antibody test.

What I've been saying, that is, of course were urgently evaluating that chest on it is on absolute priority on.

Of course, this is about making sure that people have the test and find out they had bars on immune to it.

The chief's under Gulf sir has said that the accuracy of this test isn't currently pulled, so it's also important that we get this right before we launch the test itself.

Thank you for that.

The next question is from my TV, Robert Peston wrote.

Hey, no question, people I'm putting this afternoon.

The Amillia antibody tests are hiding from China.

In the coming few days, they have Bean paid for by the government.

Government said it would pay for it.

I think it works, but I am told that Ph is dragging its feet.

Giving its approval to use of these tests are also told that these tests would be alternative to PCR would actually detect active virus, for example, When will they be in hospitals for use?

Thank you, Robert.

So at the antibody tests, the important thing about these antibody test This is not about dragging our feet.

It's important that the test is valid, but it does what it says it does on.

As the chief medical officer said, there's something worse than no test is wrong test or about test.

So that is what is being tested at the moment.

And in the meantime, there is separate strands, which is very important, which is called syrup province, where our own loves are testing the validity off.

Whether the blood samples were getting very generously from people who have the disease, but also from the transplant from the College of GPS surveillance team and whether those tests are also valid.

We're very pleased about that.

So I would say, Robert, as soon as we can, we want to be up there doing these tests.

Thank you, Thank you.

Thank you for the next question is from The Evening Star from Jim Doyle.

It's 2000 so far, 125,000 that, by my reckoning, won't with Victor.

I think you should target for the improvement you promised.

What, for example, will that number looked like in one week from today?

Do you think people are getting complacent about measures being booted on this?

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I think a lot of field get given a full of practical explanation of why Germany's able more UK they have more.

Are they making that use of universe table, private sector wise or they're using a different quick that on one of the engines that were struggling to get, we're looking to work out issue for the jerseys in the UK Guilty?

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I presume you're talking about the health care worker from flying.

Testing onto the attention there, as they say, is to go from power tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands that will have to go on the basis of the priority that has identified as to which of these workers are actually needed when, as they work really stuff, our colleagues are needed in which settings, particularly where the sickest patients are and they will be tested first.

So that is the intention over the coming weeks.

And do you know what I'm speaking?

Do you wish me to speak about the created just about every agents, So the three agents are generally produced by the manufacturers of the machines, and so the three agents that were fester those that work with machines that they're intended for, that's the most efficient.

We're working with the industry to ensure that that supply is good on that the machinery is most efficient.

But as the head of The industry has said there is a global market in this, but they are committed to working with the U.

K government with us to ensure that we get those tests through us quickly.

There's complimentary work going on to ensure that we can supplement that if needed, and that's very exciting for the future.