The number of people being randomly tested in the community for covid 19 is to be increased in england from 28,000 to 150,000 a fortnight. The office for National Statistics says the survey taken from a random sample of the population can give a clearer picture of the true spread of the virus. Our Health Correspondent Richard Galpin reports. Swipe to the back of the throat, both sides by the tonsils. It might make you gag. Volunteers carrying out coronavirus testing as part of the Household Infection survey run by the office for National Statistics. The survey described by the government as the most important indicator as to how the virus is spreading in the country. And now its to be expanded massively. From 28,000 people in households being tested every fortnight to 150,000 every fortnight by october. Households in scotland, wales and Northern Ireland are also to be included. All this potentially very significant. What is going to be really important about that is getting greater cov
and on the first anniversary of the death of queen elizabeth, a previously unseen photo is released. gun sat lieutena nts gun sat lieutenants mark the first year of the king s reign. and coming up on bbc news. american teenager coco gauff is through to her first us open lutes good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. the head of the metropolitan police says the force is exploring the possibility of whether staff at wandsworth prison helped daniel khalife escape the jail on wednesday morning. sir mark rowley said the escape was clearly pre planned and described it as extremely concerning . daniel khalife, who s a terrorism suspect, got out strapped to the underside of a delivery lorry. overnight, police searched richmond park, three miles from the prison in southeast london. matt graveling has the latest on the search which is into its third day with no confirmed sightings of the escaped prisoner. 2500 acre, it is london s largest royal park and this morning poli
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i m anjana gadgil. our top story. we start in the uk where a manhunt is continuing for a suspected terrorist who escaped from a london prison. daniel khalife escaped from wandsworth prison on wednesday morning, by clinging to the underside of a food delivery van. thejustice secretary has ordered an urgent investigation into what happened, and why the former soldier wasn t held in a higher security prison. our reporter simonjones has more. they have released a statement, saying cuts of consequences. they said you cannot reduce the budget and expect the prison service to operate as if nothing has happened. the government has to take response ability for the decimation of the prison service with less staff and more prisoners and one is worth as a technology example of what life is like for serving prison officers operating in a stressful and violent workplace with staffing levels meaning you care for more than 100 prisoners and they are calling for urgent commission notjust fo
of its youngest citizens. hello. welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. we start in the uk where a manhunt is continuing for a suspected terrorist who escaped from a london prison. daniel khalife got out of wandsworth prison on wednesday morning, by clinging to the underside of a food delivery van. thejustice secretary has ordered an urgent investigation into what happened, and why the former soldier wasn t held in a higher security prison. but the prison officers association says that while it does not want to speculate about the issues surrounding the incident, it claims that wandsworth prison is overcrowded, and has chronic staffing shortages which it is blaming on cuts to the prisons budget. we ll be speaking to them live shortly. in the last few minutes thejustice secretary alex chalk has given an update in the house of commons announcing an independent review. we will hear that shortly. but first. live now to the bbc s