Briefing from downing street which was held earlier today. It was led by the culture secretary, 0liver dowden. Im pleased to bejoined by professor steve pallas. First of all, i would like to update you on the latest data in respect of the coronavirus response. First of all, 2,000,960 tests of coronavirus have now been carried out in the united kingdom. That includes 177,216 tests which were carried out yesterday. 248,293 people have tested positive. That is an increase of 2472 cases since yesterday. 9953 people are currently in hospital with coronavirus, that is down 13 from 11,443 this time last week. And sadly, of those who have tested positive for coronavirus across all settings, 35,701; have now sadly died. That is an increase of 363 fatalities since yesterday. Of course, my thoughts are with every one of the families of those people who have been affected by this. Before we begin questions from the public and media, i want to remind people of the details of the next phase of our f
A deal can be done with the eu. Theres every possibility for the eu to show flexibility, theres bags of time for them to do it, and im confident they will. And hundreds of millions of pounds spent on transfer deadline day. Well be finding out whos gone where. And coming up on bbc news, wolves are in action Europa League qualifying theyre in armenia for their first european game outside of the uk since 1980. Updates coming up. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Were all being urged to eat less meat and make our diets more plant based in a bid to help tackle Climate Change. United nations experts say were consuming far too many meat and diary products in the west and that is helping to fuel Global Warming. But their new report stops short of saying people should become vegetarian or vegan. Heres our science editor, david shukman. A wall of dust smothers the parched fields of oklahoma. The planet is heating up, which may make it harder to grow the food we need, just as the w
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And arise captain sir tom moore the World War Two veteran whos raised more than £30 million for the nhs is awarded a knighthood. Hello and welcome to viewers on bbc one, as we build up todays Coronavirus Briefing from the government, today led by culture secretary, 0liver dowden. We start today with comments from the Prime Minister, who said that there is a growing confidence that the uk will have a test, track and trace operation in place by next month. Borisjohnson said during Prime Ministers questions that the system would be world beating and there will be 25,000 trackers. He said this will help stop the disease from spreading and added that 2a,000 tracers had already been recruited. Lets look at the governments approach to testing and tracing so far. 0n the 12th march, the government moved away from community tests and Contact Tracing because of capacity problems, as ministers focused testing on patients with suspected coronavirus in hospitals. The Health Secretary matt hancock a