Devastation in brazil more than 200,000 have already died, we report from the epicentre of the countrys worrying new coronavirus variant. Removing dangerous cladding more than three and a half years after grenfell, fewer than half the residential tower blocks identified as dangerous by the government have had work completed. And a wedding in intensive care a happy ending for the nurse and herfiance as hospital staff help them to tie the knot. And coming up in sport on bbc news. Three wickets forjames anderson, but england are made to work hard on the opening day of the second test against sri lanka. Good evening. The Prime Minister says there is some evidence that the new variant of coronavirus spreading across the uk could be more deadly than the original strain. Government scientists said for men in their 60s, out of every 1000, around ten infected with the old virus would be expected to die. But with the new variant, that number has now risen to 13 or m. The governments chief scient
Seriously ill in hospital with coronavirus have been married in intensive care just before the groom was put on a ventilator. The couple were supposed to be getting married injune. Staff at Milton Keynes University Hospital found them a vicar and helped them to organise a ceremony, complete with a cake and flowers. And thankfully, a happy ending. Sarah campbell reports. A wedding photo which tells a story of our time. Simon was about to be admitted to intensive care, his condition rapidly deteriorating. His fiancee lizzie had been told he might not recover. My heart broke. To be sat there so ill and to be told the person you love, you might not see them again, isjust. Indescribable. With time running out nursing staff here immediately set about planning a wedding. They called in a local vicar, who came and did the ceremony in intensive care, and they were absolutely amazing, absolutely amazing. Bearing in mind all that was going on, what was going through your mind . We got to make tha
This is bbc news. Im lukwesa burak. The headlines at four the number of people diagnosed with coronavirus in the uk has increased by 43 in one day, bringing the total to 206. 140 british people remain on board a cruise ship off San Francisco, where 21 passengers have tested positive for coronavirus. There is a rush for me to get off the ship. I have stage four neuroendocrine cancer and my tumours are actively growing. Its not going to be easy to off load the ship with 2500 passengers. Gay man in his 80s is the second person in the uk to have died after testing a man in his 80s is the
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