Public Health England, after a review has found that being overweight greatly increases your chances of being hospitalised, or dying, if you have covid 19. Ministers are due to publish a new strategy for tackling obesity this week. Simonjones has the story. The warning from Health Officials is clear if youre overweight or obese and get coronavirus, youre more likely to end up in hospital, more likely to become critically ill. This graph illustrates the scale of the problem, based on a study of over 19,000 people who have tested positive for covid 19. It shows the bigger the bmi, or body mass index, the risk of intensive care increases. Someone who is severely obese has over four times the risk compared to someone who is the normal weight. Being overweight increases the chances of insulin resistance. It puts up your blood pressure. And all of these extra pressures and strains on the body are likely to be part of the reason why people, when they contract covid, if theyre also overweight,
But nothing like that today. These are the best temperatures you can expect, 19 to 23 degrees and quite a few heavy downpours drifting through. Some thunder and lightning mixed in with some dry, bright spells in between. I think the emphasis will be on more dry weather as we go through tonight, many of the showers will fade, well keep some going up towards Northern Ireland and western scotland. Not as mild as last night. Tomorrow, a lot of fine weather around with some spells of sunshine, a few showers here and there and some more persistent rain into north west scotland. It is going to be quite a windy day tomorrow, those are the average wind speeds, gusts will be a little bit stronger than that, and it is going to feel fairly cool and fresh out there with top temperatures between 17 and 23 degrees. Hello. This is bbc news. Im shaun ley. The headlines gyms and swimming pools reopen in england, but theres a warning up to a third may stay shut because of financial troubles. It comes as
That reach of integrity is irresponsible and unacceptable to me. On this situation, it began weeks to months ago and i thought the problem was limited and isolated and i believe that. But i no longer believe that it is systemic. I was too trusting of some and i accepted it and i now know that it has been misleading in regard to patient wait times. I cannot explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facility. This is something that i have rarely encountered during my 30 years in uniform. And so i will not defend it because it is not worth defending. But i can take responsibility with responsibility for it. And i do. So given the fact i now know, i apologize with the Senior Leader of the department of Veterans Affairs and i extend my condolences to the veterans of this country and their families and loved ones who i have been honored to serve for 45 years now. I also offer an apology to members of congress and the Veterans Services organizations including
Airports transit zone ever since. His lawyer says now hes free to go. Translator snowden has just left airport and has headed for a safer place. Snowden says eventually he wants to move on to latin america. Some countries there have offered him permanent asylum. Snowden worked on contract as an Intelligence Analyst for the National Security agency. He told the Guardian Newspaper and other media that agents collect private internet and phone data. U. S. Authorities have defended the surveillance programs saying they prevented terrorist attacks. Spokespersons for the russian president ial office say the decision to grant snowden asylum will not affect relations with the u. S. The White House Press secretary was less clearcut. We are extremely disappointed that the russian government would take this step despite our very clear and lawful requests in public and in private to have mr. Snowden expelled to the United States to face the charges against him. Kearney said president barack obama
The latest headlines for you from bbc news the head of the World Health Organization has said covid 19 is easily the most severe Global Health immune emergency the organisation has ever declared. The chief is to reconvene the Emergency Committee this week to review its assessment of the pandemic. Spains Prime Minister has strongly criticised the uks decision to impose a quarantine on everyone arriving from his country. Pedro sanchez said british tourists are safer from the virus in most regions of spain than they are at home. There was particular anger to at the decision to include the balearic and canary islands. In brazil, one of the worst affected countries, Health Workers have urged the International Criminal court to investigate president bolsonaros government. They accuse it of crimes against humanity of its handling of the virus. Almost 2. 5 million cases have been recorded there. A new strategy to help people in england lose weight has been published by the government. Health e