now nhs england is calling on hospitals to use a 15% of their testing capability on staff. the government is going further, saying hospitals should use any spare laboratory capacity they have to test as many nhs staff for the virus as possible. we want to see more people tested very rapidly. we do now have enough tests to be testing those people in critical conditions in hospitals, so much so that we can now move forward and test nhs workers, and that is extremely important, because anyone going to work in those situations and doing frankly heroic tasks for us and doing frankly heroic tasks for us should be given the equipment that they need. but at the same time, the government and nhs are claiming shortages of vital material are hampering capacity to ramp up testing. a top nhs executive has said laboratories could be providing around 100,000 tests a day, but because of a shortage of swabs and
divergence as to why it has not been able to ramp up testing in the way that it wanted to, albeit this morning we heard from the committee secretary defending the governments approach. in the uk, we produce a number of ingredients to produce the tests that we need. but to produce a reliable test you need to have a range of ingredients and not all of them, as i understand it, have always been available in the uk in the quantities that we need. but we are working with british manufacturers as much as we possibly can. they have been extremely helpful and supportive in trying to ramp up production. that is beginning to happen. the help of the government is producing a test. they seem to be facing a lot of emphasis on the immunity test, another test which is now at the development stage. there
this is bbc news. the headlines. nearly four hundred people who tested positive for coronavirus have died in the uk over the past 24 hours 367 of them in england. nhs workers call for urgent action to give them protective equipment, in the fight against coronavirus. i don t have any visors, i don t have any facial goggles, i should have a full sleeved gown if i m following the guidance by the world health organization, and i think it s frightening that i am putting myself at risk. police are told to take a consistent approach when using new emergency powers on restricting movement, after some forces are criticised for being too aggressive. the number of daths in spain increases by 849, the highest daily number since the epidemic started. the total there now is over 8,000.
this is bbc news. the headlines. downing street suggests that the target of testing 25,000 people per day for coronavirus may not be met until the end of april. nhs workers call for urgent action to give them protective equipment in the fight against coronavirus. i don t have any visors, i don t have any facial goggles, i should have a full sleeved gown if i m following the guidance by the world health organization, and i think it s frightening that i am putting myself at risk. police are told to take a consistent approach when using new emergency powers on restricting movement, after some forces are criticised for being too aggressive. the number of deaths in spain increases by 849, the highest daily number since the epidemic started.
in italy, the infection rate is at around 9%. the death toll among doctors stands at at least 61. no one can predict how long this pandemic will last. but it s the efforts of healthcare workers all around the world that all of us are relying on. translation: it s really painstaking and energy consuming work, but every day we are hoping for people s recovery. following in the footsteps of florence nightingale, we will fulfil our mission. tulip mazumdar, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news: police officers across the uk are told to take a consistent approach when using their new emergency powers on restricting our movements. the death toll in spain increases by 849, the highest daily number