Now on bbc news, click. This week the race to trace the coronavirus. The pop up groups trying to help us all to get through it. And breathe helping children to use their inhalers. Theme music. As the coronavirus has swept across the globe, the ability to know exactly where it is has become the crucial key to stopping it. We have a simple message for all countries test, test, test. Some countries have really cracked how to do this. South korea, with its drive through ten minute tests, is held up as a model for others to follow. But many countries are struggling to test at scale. In the uk, testing is having to be limited the cost to infrastructure, the time the test takes are all holding up the battle against the disease. Now, there are dozens of efforts going on around the world to try and solve this. And jen has been looking at one close to home in west london. Around the world, companies and increasingly, individuals, are racing to find ways to accurately test people for the coronavi
Now on bbc news, its time to click. This week the race to trace the coronavirus. The pop up groups trying to help us all get through it. And breathe helping children to use their inhalers. Theme music as the coronavirus has swept across the globe, the ability to know exactly where it is has become the crucial key to stopping it. We have a simple message for all countries test, test, test. Some countries have really cracked how to do this. South korea, with its drive through ten minute tests, is held up as a model for others to follow. But many countries are struggling to test at scale. In the uk, testing is having to be limited the cost to infrastructure, the time the test takes are all holding up the battle against the disease. Now, there are dozens of efforts going on around the world to try and solve this. And jen has been looking at one close to home in west london. Around the world, companies and increasingly, individuals, are racing to find ways to accurately test people for the
Now on bbc news, we simply dont have mass Testing Available for the population now its time for click. And theres a big effort going on to try and get that this week the race in place as quickly as possible to trace the coronavirus. To be able to manage this. The pop up groups trying to help us all to get through it. 00 01 16,001 2147483051 37 22,715 and breathe helping children 2147483051 37 22,715 4294966103 13 29,430 to use their inhalers. Were in negotiations today to buy a so called antibody test, as simple as a pregnancy test, that can tell whether you have had the disease. There are two types of test being worked on. Diagnostic tests, which identify people who currently have coronavirus, and antibody tests these look for antibodies in the blood to see if a person ever had the virus in their system and if they did, when. The diagnostic tests are primarily based on a technology called is pcr polymerase chain reaction. This is a standard molecular technique that identifies the gene
Generous, loving. Mum. Katy austin reports. Kimberley finlayson, who was 52, died after two Emergency Operations in indonesia. Now its time for a look at the weather with nick miller. Hello. A lot of fine, settled weather out there, this weekend, with High Pressure in control. Though there is a brisk and chilly easterly wind. The best of the sunshine today will be the eastern side of england and scotland, that is where we will have the bluest sky. A lot of high cloud to the west, the sun will be quite hazy here. Temperatures around 8 12 degrees or so. This is the brisk easterly wind. These are average speeds. It gusts higher, around 50 miles an hour, around some of the coasts of south west england. So it will feel colder as a result. Bit of low cloud toward some north sea coast overnight. We will see a bit of patchy rain edging towards the Western Isles of scotland but for most of us, dry, clear overnight and temperatures a few degrees either side of freezing. So, frost for many going
Hello this is bbc news. The headlines the National Health service could soon be overwhelmed with coronavirus patients, warns the british Prime Minister. Londons mayor urges people to act responsibly. Unless people stay at home, unless people stop using public transport unless its essential, unless people stop interacting with each other, more people will die. Mrjohnson urges people to make the heroic and collective National Effort to slow the spread of the virus. He cautions against visiting loved ones on mothers day. Nhs england writes to 1. 5 Million People who are most at risk, strongly advising them not to go out for 12 weeks to protect themselves. Spain has reported nearly 400 more deaths from coronavirus overnight. Thats up a third in 2a hours. The countrys state of emergency has been extended by 15 days. More than a billion people in india are under a 14 hour long curfew to try to limit the epidemic. Now on bbc news, we look at a company which is developing portable labs to test