It may include messages to the family such as good night mum and dad, and in the morning they might receive a good morning message. Lovely messages like that. Professor dempsey, how many mothers and babies are currently separated at your hospital and whats been the reaction to this technology from those whove been able to make use of it . I guess right now we do not have any covid i9 positive mums so were using it in our unit as a way of ensuring the dad s and partners remain in contact with her baby. The response has been absolutely fantastic. We had a 100 acceptance rate. It allows families we had it in place for the last week or so and we had nothing but positive feedback. In fact the only negative
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Today at 5. For the first time, more new cases of coronavirus are recorded outside china than within. As the virus spreads across europe, with new cases in italy, greece and elsewhere, the government here says it does have a plan to deal with the outbreak. We have a clear, 4 part plan to respond to the outbreak of this disease. Contain, delay, research and mitigate. We are taking all necessary measures to minimise the risks to the public. In tenerife, 160 british holiday makers are among 1000 people now confined to their hotel, after four guests tested positive. We are clear now. We were tested yesterday. For Goodness Sake, bring us home well have the latest from the European Centre
for disease control. The other main stories on bbc news at 5. Flood barriers are overwhelmed along stretches of the river severn and residents are evacuated. Water is now penetrating the barrier and weve got to two metres of water on what was the dry side. So we have immediately authorised an evacuation of
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
And our people understand this, and im sure we will stand till the end. That end for her is new elections, ones that are free and fair. Only then, she tells us, will bela russians know who their president truly is. Jean mackenzie, bbc news. The Manchester United captain, Harry Maguire, has been arrested while on holiday on the greek island of mykonos. Lets talk to our Sports Correspondent olly foster, who is at old trafford for us tonight. Bring us up to date with the latest on all this. Good evening. The worlds most expensive defender is spending a second night in a greek police cell. The club this morning confirming that their captain was fully cooperating with the greek authorities. We know that Harry Maguire and two other british men we re maguire and two other british men were arrested at around midnight last night after an incident on the
greek island of mykonos. The greek police said they were called out to an altercation between two groups. They had to break up a fight and it w
That his government didnt understand the nature of the coronavirus pandemic in its first few weeks and months. Speaking to the bbc, mrjohnson also said there were open questions about whether lockdown had been imposed too late. Huge crowds attend friday prayers at hagia sophia the president of turkey, recep tayyip erdogan, has he said 350,000 people took part inside and in the surrounding streets. The 1500 year old World Heritage site became a museum in 1934. Authorities have created a city interactive very the Record Number of people have died in the technician of coronavirus. Doctors have warned that a return to normal life would be premature. Due to the number of people have
died. The flu vaccine is to be offered to more than half a finger ins population this winter to prevent the Health Service being overwhelmed by another surge and coronavirus cases. 30 million free jabs will be provided including to people age 50 and over and children under 11. Age 50 and over and children under1