Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The Prime Minister is preparing to ask mps to support a new National Lockdown in england to last four weeks. In the commons later this afternoon, hes expected to warn that covid i9 deaths could be twice as high over the winter as they were in the first wave of the pandemic. He will say there is no alternative to the measure, which is due to start on thursday, and to end on the 2nd of december. He is expected to stress that he intends to ease restrictions after a month. From thursday, people will be told to stay at home, except for specific reasons. Pubs, restaurants, gyms and nonessential shops will close. But takeaways will be permitted, and meeting indoors or in private gardens will not be allowed. But you will be able to meet one other person from another household outside in a public place. Labour is supporting the move, but have criticised the delay in bringing it in. Meanwhile, some conservative mps say theyll oppose it. Our Political Corre
African variant. The number of children of key workers who are still going into Primary Schools is undermining the lockdown, teaching unions have warned. And some nurseries looking after the very youngest children question why they have to stay open and say they need more help to deal with the pandemic. A change in tone from President Trump he now condemns the violent storming of the us capitol by his supporters. Hello, good afternoon. The latest r numberfor the uk has been published and government scientists estimate it is currently between 1 and 1. 4 that means that on average every ten people infected with the virus will pass it on to between 10 and 1a people. Before christmas it was estimated to be between 1. 1 and 1. 3. Scientists advising the government said the estimates of r and growth rates are based on the latest Data Available up to january 11th and do not include any impact of the Current National lockdown. The mayor of london, sadiq khan, has declared a Major Incident in t
Would shows the impact of what this would be on nhs beds. On the left hand side is acute hospital beds and, on the right hand side, is ventilator beds. It is the same care of you have just seen, so the first peak on the left and then the projection on the left and then the projection on the right. So the projections that i have just shown you, when the nhs do their bed calculations, as peak usage being exceeded on the 20th of november, that is obviously not a precise estimate but where this would fall on average, that the extra available beds would then be exceeded a couple of days later, three days later, and, then, extra capacity caused by having to postpone, unfortunately, all the things that nobody wants to postpone, get succeeded sometime later in december. And a similar picture is seen on ventilator beds, where the peak gets reached towards
the end of november, or in december, and the currently available get breached a little bit earlier. So this is a picture of what the nhs pres
This is bbc news and we will be bringing you todays downing street press c0 nfe re nce bringing you todays downing street press conference with all the latest on the battle of the virus. Our top stories. As a guest figure in the uk rise by 917, doctors are warning the store are not getting the macro to be needed to treat patients with coronavirus. The government must make sure that it delivers the ppe, which it says a cat has, to the front line. Going from the business of usual, normal ppe distribution to the unprecedented usage now has been a big challenge, and we have still got work to do. Number ten say the Prime Minister, borisjohnson, is making very Good Progress in his recovery from covid 19. As spains daily coronavirus death toll falls for the third day in a row to 510, the World Health Organization tells countries to be cautious about lifting restrictions too early. The United States becomes the first country in the world to record more than 2000 coronavirus deaths in a single