ijust think that we have j to get through it as best as we possibly can. we will give the nhs - all the support that we can. but in the meantime, i the thing we ve got to do, as responsible members of- the public, is follow the guidance, try to stop transmission as much as we can and get boosted. i there is some evidence that cases in young adults might be flattening off, but the worry now is that older adults are becoming infected, adding even more to the strain in the nhs. that s why government advisers are warning that hospital admissions could be going up for quite some time. jon donnison, bbc news. well, as we heard, the government is looking at removing the requirement for people in england who test positive for covid on a lateral flow device, but don t have symptoms, to get a follow up pcr test. here s the health minister gillian keegan speaking to bbc breakfast this morning. as i say, i don t have any
national infrastructure, transport and food processing. these tests are separate and in addition to those already allocated to public services such as an education where we have delivered 31 million testing kits to schools and colleges. the new term. we have the biggest testing programme in europe, registering twice as many tests as france and four as many as germany. as month alone redistribute a 300 million lateral flow devices enabling millions of people to get tested and keep their loved ones, friends and colleagues if the run up to to christmas. thanks to the size of the 0micron wave we still need to take steps to ensure testing capacity reaches those we need to protect most. from next tuesday in england, if you test positive on a lateral flow device you should just record that result on the government website and begin self isolating. a
contrast between having this testing at the same time, we are told, and this is a telegraph line that s been flashing up lately, so might be something they ve got a head of more detail today, testing rules to be relaxed to solve staff shortages. doesn t sound like a solution if people aren t testing so much, conceivably coming in infected and start infecting their colleagues? this is really interesting and there has been this is really interesting and there has been some calls for this isolation has been some calls for this isolation time to be shortened, which isolation time to be shortened, which is isolation time to be shortened, which is what i thought we d hear next which is what i thought we d hear next from which is what i thought we d hear next from the government. but actually next from the government. but actually the story the telegraph has here is actually the story the telegraph has here is that if you test positive on a laterai here is that if you test