This is bbc news. The headlines. The number of people who have tested positive for coronavirus in the uk has risen to 206. Milton keynes hospital is isolating people who came into contact with the man in his 80s who died from the virus on thursday. We currently have five patients who are isolated and have been tested and we are awaiting the results to come back. And we have asked nine staff to self isolate. 140 britons remain quarantined on board a cruise ship off the coast of california in which 21 people tested positive for coronavirus. There is a rush for me to get off the ship. I have stage four and a crying candour michael katz are my tumours are actively going. It will not be easy to off load this ship. Actively going. It will not be easy to offload this ship. At 8 30pm we will bring you a special programme on coronavirus, how it spreads on the action you can take. In other news, £360 million will be paid by Insurance Companies to clean up the damage from storms dennis and keir
Measures to contain the spread of coronavirus. It comes after over 1,200 new cases were reported in italy in the last 2a hours the biggest daily rise in cases since the outbreak. Officials say 36 more people have died in the last 2a hours. The authorites are preparing to introduce stringent new measures to try to contain the outbreak including in a major escalation of controls blocking all but emergency travel to and from lombardy and eleven northern and eastern provinces. A decree being prepared this evening would also see schools closed for several weeks along with all museums and swimming pools. Earlier i spoke to cristina nadotti, an editor at la repubblica in rome, about the rise in new cases. We expected that. At la republica, the edition that come out this morning, we had already written that the experts had expected that this reason, in the figures, and we are aware that we are in a crisis, because now in lombardy there are some problems with intensive care units. That was exac
Liverpool should not be pressured into upping their contract offer for Mohamed Salah, according to David James, who thinks that the Reds will have replacements lined up for the Egyptian, and Sadio Mane, if they decide to leave