In here, weve got a mixture, from people in their 40s to their 70s, a lot of them have high Blood Pressure and diabetes or a bit of respiratory disease. But some of them who are coming through are young and fit. The patients here have severe pneumonia, inflammation of the lungs. They must be heavily sedated while on a ventilator a machine which takes over their breathing. Hello and welcome to patients can spend two weeks like this. Many drugs are being tested but there is, as yet, no proven treatment for coronavirus. This bbc news special. So its oxygen and. . 0rgan support, and amazing nursing care, really. One thing that helps is turning the patients onto their front. It increases the oxygen getting into their lungs. What seems like a simple procedure takes time. And lots of pairs of hands. 0k, everyone all right . More of the myths about coronavirus. And a reminder that there is further yep. Advice, news and information about coronavirus in your area ready, steady. 90. With ventilat
Overwhelming. We had to adapt to a new change, so fast. It feels like a tsunami. The government is handing out 300,000 Smart Devices stop there are huge digital gaps to fill, even in this tech savvy country. This charity is delivering food parcels to make sure children from low income households can focus on school work and they are offering tech support including free wi fi to thousands. Translation when i talk to the parents, they are less worried about the access to Smart Devices and more worried about whether the kids will be able to learn properly by themselves. The fear is that some students will be left behind in an already tough education system. The government admits this is an experiment but in admits this is an experiment but in a time when normal life has become a distant dream, this is as close as stu d e nts distant dream, this is as close as students can get, for now. Laura bicker, bbc news. Now on bbc news its the coronavirus newscast, hello and welcome to this bbc news
Correspondent lyse doucet. That 19 nhs workers have died since the start of the pandemic. The United States becomes the first country in the world to record more because youre right on religion, it than 2000 coronavirus deaths in a single day. Police in the uk urge people to stick to the advice to stay at home over the bank holiday weekend, despite the warm weather in many parts of the country. Spains taylor coronavirus death toll falls for the third day in a iow toll falls for the third day in a row to 510. The World Health Organization that tells countries to be cautious about lifting restrictions too early. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. First, the uk health secretary, matt hancock, has said thereve been cases where medical workers have used more personal protective equipment than they needed as they tackle the coronavirus outbreak. The doctors union, the British Medic
Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were focusing on the latest coronavirus developments, nationally and globally. We begin with new figures from the United States, which has suffered its largest one day death toll. According to numbers compiled byJohns Hopkins university, 2,108 people died in the last 24 hour period. The United States has the highest number of cases in the world. It has just passed 500,000. It has also recorded the second highest number of deaths, over 18,700, just behind italy. New york state alone now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any single country in the world. The figures come after pictures emerged of a mass grave on hart island in new york city, a place which has long been used for people with no next of kin or by families who cant afford a funeral. Here is our north america editorjon sopel. It is somehow unimaginable, unbelievable, that in the most famous city of the richest country in the world, theyre digging mass gr
Just behind italy. The state has more confirmed cases than any single country in the world. Pictures have now emerged of a mass grave being used in new york city as the death toll there continues to rise. It is somehow unimaginable, unbelievable, that in the most famous city of the richest country in the world, theyre digging mass graves for those who cant afford a funeral, and for those who died of coronavirus with no next of kin. This is hart island, just off the bronx in new york city. Nearly 8,000 people have died in this state alone, and theyre struggling to deal with all the burials. We are in total control of our destiny here. What we do will affect literally life and death for hundreds of people. And so many new York Hospitals have had to bring these refrigerated lorries in to act as makeshift morgues. The whole Health Care System is creaking. There is an important glimmer of good news, though and that is the number of people being admitted to hospital is falling sharply. And d