Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The chief medical officer now says a coronavirus epidemic here in the uk is likely though not definite. Chris whittys comments come on the day of the biggest 24 hour rise in the number of people infected 36 new cases, two of which are in scotland and two in Northern Ireland. It brings the total number of people with the virus here to 87. Of the new cases, three do not seem to have any connection to travel abroad thats whats called community transmission. In Parliament Today borisjohnson announced a change to the rule on sick pay for those who end up having to self isolate as a result of coronavirus. More on that in just a moment, but first heres our Health Editor hugh pym. Its in demand. Some shops have run out of hand sanitiser, so this production line is running at full speed. They used to turn out 100,000 bottles a month. Now theyre aiming for that every day, anything to limit the virus risk as case numbers rose sharply and Health Chiefs warned
The greek government denies it, but the bbc is told that two syrian migrants who were trying to illegally enter greece from turkey have been shot dead. Are you sure they were dead, i say. Theyre dead, it was in front of me, and he shows me where they were hit. Let me bring you up to date on every element of the coronavirus outbreak. First italy where all schools and universities will close on thursday and will stay closed until 15 march. There are more than 3,000 cases in italy, and 107 people have died. Reuters is also reporting that cinemas and theatres may close. And there may be a suspension of events of any nature that entail the concentration of people and do not allow for a safety distance of at least one metre to be respected. Bethany bell is in milan. Schools and universities in the north of the country, areas that have been hit the hardest by the coronavirus, have been closed for a number of days already. Now it appears the government has taken the step of closing them across
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