Welcome, everyone, to the governments daily briefing. Im joined by the chief of the nhs and the chief medical officer. Id like to update you all on the facts of this bright of covid19 and the steps we are taking in the battle against the coronavirus. 113,077 people have now been tested for the virus. 14,543 have tested positive, an increase in the last day. The best analysis now is that the rate of infection has been doubling every three to four days. And of those who have contracted the virus, 759 have sadly died. Our thoughts and prayers of the families of those who have passed away. These figures are a powerful reminder of the need for all of us to act. We need to slow the spread of the virus and strengthen the all. Ability to protect as strict us all. Strict social distancing measures have been put in place so if your people should need hospital treatment at any one time. The measures we put in place follow scientific and medical advice, and are designed to reduce the rate of infec
We begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We want to make history delivering articles of impeachment against the president of the United States. The senate prepares to receive articles of impeachment. Nancy pelosi now has proven to me to be political as she walks out of the chamber fist pumping. An associate of trumps personal lawyer dropping bomb shells. President trump knew exactly what was going on. U. S. And china are moving forwrd with the first phase of the trade deal. News of the trade deal sent stocks up. A very beautiful game of chess or game of poker. Cnn has released audio of the confrontation between Bernie Sanders and elizabeth warren. I think you called me a liar on national tv. Lets not do it right now. In utah a small plane crashed in a town home before hitting the ground and then burst into flames. The powerful winter storm is dumping snow on parts of the northwest. The storm will then begin to pound the east. All that check out blair onea
Everyone to be nice to each other. If people see other people being kind they will be kind as well. And when we covered the story of rose brown earlier this year, who was given the gift of her own bespoke digital voice that she chose to match her personality, she told us shed always wanted to be on eastenders. So we took her on a tour of the iconic set. Absolutely fabulous, and i think rose has had a fabulous time. What a lovely christmas present. It was like a dream come true. Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Were asking this morning for you to share your best news of 2019. Forget brexit and the snap general election whats been big in your life . Share your happy stories and well read some of them out and maybe even get some of you on air. Laura on twitter. Finishing therapy after 3. 5 years of severe Mental Illness and hospitalization and working on my psychology masters to help others to recover. Gemma on twitter. Graduating with a first class honour
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On october 23rd to 2019, the main fax number stopped working, so i thank you can appreciate during these last days of open enrolment thousands of applications can be faxed in at that time. We identified that the issue was with the phone line and not the fax server or the software. We reached out to the Technology Partners and they just so completely understood our sense of urgency around that. They were able to get at t out to our premises and then they kept doing additional onsite troubleshooting with us as we looked at the fibra networks and the Telecom Lines and they were able to meet me outside Business Hours to resolve things as expediently as possible. And ultimately they diagnosed a loose wire in the basement. Isnt it always Something Like that . They were tremendous. The individuals were deeply invested in getting us back up and running. Im so very grateful for the expertise and assistance. Thank you to the department of technology. Thank you. Thank you, marina. So with that, i