Observing social distancing and as a people are evacuated from coastal member of the house of commons commission, i was reassured yesterday by the progress being made areas of bangladesh and eastern india as a severe cyclone in making the parliamentary state a is predicted to make landfall covid 19 secure workplace. This work in a few hours time. Has been expertly led by the head of governance and Central Services and the uk government says its in listening mode as at least 11 i particularly meant marianne for English Councils raise serious concerns about the phased reopening her commitment to ensure that staff of schools from the 1st ofjune. Are coming into work in the pavis have the support that they need. Captain tom moore, who raised almost £40 million for the Uks National Health Service is awarded yesterday, mr speaker, you organise a knighthood, to be the test of a new system for bestowed by the queen. Im looking forward to that. Divisions that would ensure that i hope shes not
And arise captain sir tom moore the World War Two veteran whos raised more than £30 million for the nhs is awarded a knighthood. Hello and welcome to viewers on bbc one, as we build up todays Coronavirus Briefing from the government, today led by culture secretary, 0liver dowden. We start today with comments from the Prime Minister, who said that there is a growing confidence that the uk will have a test, track and trace operation in place by next month. Borisjohnson said during Prime Ministers questions that the system would be world beating and there will be 25,000 trackers. He said this will help stop the disease from spreading and added that 2a,000 tracers had already been recruited. Lets look at the governments approach to testing and tracing so far. 0n the 12th march, the government moved away from community tests and Contact Tracing because of capacity problems, as ministers focused testing on patients with suspected coronavirus in hospitals. The Health Secretary matt hancock a
Calls increase in the us to take down confederate statues because of their connnections to slavery. Residents of poole vow to protect a statue of the scouts Founder Robert baden powell, whos accused of racism. Police fear it could be a target for demonstrators. Jk rowling reveals she has experienced Domestic Abuse and sexual assault, in an essay explaining her views about gender. And, one zooms the queen uses the Video Conferencing app to thank carers for their work during the coronavirus pandemic. Interesting listening to all your tales and stories, and im very impressed by what you have achieved already. Im very glad to have been able to join you today. Hello, good afternoon. In the next half hour, well bring you the daily downing street briefing, to be led today by the Health Secretary, matt hancock, who will give an update on the first weeks figures from the new nhs test and Trace Programme in england. The numbers show of the more than 8,000 people who tested positive for covid 19
Following the death of george floyd in police custody. Two weeks quarantine thats what the government wants all travellers to face as they come into the uk from monday. Back to school for the last few weeks of the summer term. Schools in wales will begin a limited return from the 29thjune. Good afternoon, and welcome to this special programme from bbc news. Well bring you all the latest news on the coronavirus pandemic, and the downing street briefing, which will be led today by the Prime Minister. But first, the home secretary has confirmed that new quarantine rules for people arriving in the uk from overseas will come into force on monday that includes uk nationals. Priti patel said most people entering the uk will be told to isolate for two weeks, with only a limited number of exemptions. They will be required to fill in a contact locator form, with details on where they will isolate and how they can be contacted. She warned that anyone leaving isolation in england could face a fine
Previous month in following social distancing have together helped us to bring this virus under control. I commend the statement of the house. Thank you and i thank the home secretary for her statement and advanced we have been calling for sensible, and we it is vital the uk has a plan for minimising the risk of infection is coming into the country but the home secretary must also realise there are a fundamental question she needs to realise she needs to answer. Why these particular measures and why now . From when the lockdown was imposed, only 273 people were formally quarantined from four flights, three from one hand, one from tokyo, when over 18 Million People into the country by air. The home secretaryjust said in her statement this was because domestic transmission was widespread, but this is what the government because my own chief scientific adviser said, and i quote a lot of the cases in the uk didnt come from china, and didnt come from the places you might have expected. They