A meeting between the four nations of the uk to discuss tightening coronavirus restrictions over christmas has broken up, without agreement. Pressure has been growing on the government all day. Here are two of the uk leading medical journals publishing a joint editorial calling for the government to stop any household mixing. They describe the current plan to allow three households to gather at christmas as a rash decision that will cost lives. The journals also highlight the increase rate of here are their editors. The real striking, stark truth of the matter is that our Health System is not going to manage if we allow the current trend to continue out on top of this super spreader events that will be these five days of christmas. We are currently on course for around 19,000 Covid Patients in hospitals. At the start of the second wave number was 451. And bear in mind it was only yesterday that the government announced 3a Million People in the uk will be living under the toughest rules
Of all the Infectious Diseases this country has faced since ive been in office, this one concerns me more than any of the others. What the polls say about bloombergs trajectory. All in starts right now. Is good evening from new york. I am chris hayes. Less than an hour ago, President Donald Trump held a typically, a rambling news conference. This time, it was a flailing attempt to calm fierce about the coronavirus. Trump waved around a printout of Global Healthcare rankings from Johns Hopkins listing the countries one by one. He also announced Vice President mike pence will lead the nations response going forward. He went out of his way to praise pences health care record as governor of indiana. Mikes been very good, very adept. Anybody that knows anything about health care, they look at the indiana model, and its been a very great success. Its been a tremendous model in terms of health care and this is really an off chute of that. One of mike pences best known im sure well be in the b
Specialising in coronavirus. In other news, £360 million will be paid by Insurance Companies to clean up the damage from storms dennis and ciara. And click asks if ai can help fight coronavirus misinformation. Thats in half an hour, here on bbc news. Good morning and welcome to bbc news. A man in his 80s has become the second person in the uk to die after testing positive for coronavirus. Milton keynes hospital said he had Underlying Health conditions and theyve isolated any patients or staff who were in contact with him. The number of cases in the uk has now reached 164 more than 20,000 people here have been tested. In america more than 140 british people including 21 crew members are stranded on a cruise ship which has been prevented from docking as planned in San Francisco. Its now likely to go to a non commercial berth. And scotland womens six nations match with france in glasgow has been postponed after a home player contracted coronavirus. Andy moore has the first of our reports
Dennis and ciara. And as 290 million children are missing school and parts of the world are in lock down, the dateline london panel asks if coronavirus could mean permanent changes to the way we live. Thats in half an hour here on bbc news. This good morning and welcome to bbc news. A man in his 80s has become the second person in the uk to die after testing positive for coronavirus. Milton keynes hospital said he had Underlying Health conditions, and theyve isolated any patients or staff who were in contact with him. The number of cases in the uk has now reached 164 more than 20,000 people here have been tested. In america more than 140 british people including 21 crew members are stranded on a cruise ship which has been prevented from docking as planned in San Francisco. Good morning this and welcome to bbc news. Its now likely to go to a non commercial berth. And scotland womens six nations match with france in glasgow has been postponed after a home player contracted coronavirus an
One of only a few dozen advanced level 4 bio labs on the planet. The Wuhan Laboratory was used for research on some of the deadliest pathogens known to man. As it happens, this facility was not far from the socalled wet market where the coronavirus supposedly originated. Kind of an amazing coincidence, if you think about it. Was it actually a coincidence or was there a connection between the research lab and the outbreak . He it seems like a question worth asking. Unfortunately we live in a Political Climate in which asking questions is greatly discouraged and obedience is prized. Speculation about it remained private, mostly online. In february, senator tom cotton of arkansas said it out loud. A few miles away from that food market is chinas only biosafetyet level 4 Super Laboratory that researches human infectious diseases. We dont have evidence that this disease originated there, but because of chinas duplicity and dishonesty from the beginning, we need to at least ask the question