Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The chief medical officer now says a coronavirus epidemic here in the uk is likely though not definite. Chris whittys comments come on the day of the biggest 24 hour rise in the number of people infected 36 new cases, two of which are in scotland and two in Northern Ireland. It brings the total number of people with the virus here to 87. Of the new cases, three do not seem to have any connection to travel abroad thats whats called community transmission. In Parliament Today borisjohnson announced a change to the rule on sick pay for those who end up having to self isolate as a result of coronavirus. More on that in just a moment, but first heres our Health Editor hugh pym. Its in demand. Some shops have run out of hand sanitiser, so this production line is running at full speed. They used to turn out 100,000 bottles a month. Now theyre aiming for that every day, anything to limit the virus risk as case numbers rose sharply and Health Chiefs warned
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