population. as sara was saying there, the russians insist that they don t hit civilian targets despite the evidence we can see with our own eyes. whether this is a change of strategy, we don t know, because there s been some suggestion that there s been some suggestion that the russians have switched to less accurate missiles because the old stops run down and what they are doing is hitting these targets by mistake. by the end result is the same, a huge number of civilian casualties across this country. joe. casualties across this country. joe, thanks very casualties across this country. joe, thanks very much. figures from the nhs out today show the pressure on emergency services is getting worse with record numbers of people going to a&e, patients in england waiting much longerfor ambulances, and many staff off sick. i m joined by our health correspondentjim reed. we know that large parts of the health service have been under significant pressure over the last couple months, the
investigation into this but as we heard in the report there is a lot of pressure growing this afternoon from opposition mps and some within the conservative party more privately, that is likely to mean that that line may not hold. the rate of people testing positive for covid 19 has continued to increase across the uk, the office for national statistics says. in both england and wales, data suggests that around one in 30 people had coronavirus in the week ending 24june. in northern ireland, the figure was 1 in 25 and in scotland the rate was1 in 18. with me in the studio now is our health correspondentjim reed. how concerned should we be? most eole how concerned should we be? most people watching this how concerned should we be? i’j if?3ii people watching this will think this is no surprise because anecdotally everyone has got friends, neighbours, relatives, that seem to be testing positive and this is what is reflected in the data. the number of people who had covid last week acc
martin yip, bbc news. the rate of people testing positive for covid 19 has continued to increase across the uk, the office for national statistics says. in both england and wales, data suggests that around one in 30 people had coronavirus in the week ending 2ajune. in northern ireland, the figure was 1 in 25 and in scotland the rate was1 in 18. with me in the studio now is our health correspondentjim reed. how concerning are these figures? this is a significant weekly increase in the level of covid infections but we should point out because some people might be thinking, are we even testing for it any more? this is the office for national statistics that go out and randomly test tens of thousands of people each week to see if they have covid so it is not based on people coming forward with symptoms, so it is seen as the most accurate reading we have of infections across the country and it shows in the last
is what they hope. panda; should cool down the economy, that is what they hope. is what they hope. andy verity at the bank is what they hope. andy verity at the lsank of is what they hope. andy verity at the bank of england, is what they hope. andy verity at the bank of england, thank- is what they hope. andy verity at the bank of england, thank you. | new figures show the health service in england is still under intense pressure as the country recovers from the pandemic. the number of people waiting for a routine operation climbed to nearly 6.5 million in may that s one in every nine people in england and the highest since records began in 2007. but the nhs says there are signs of progress, with a fall in the number of people waiting more than two years. in a&e, 73% of people were seen within four hours. that is up slightly on last month but below the 95% target. ambulances in england took an average of a0 minutes last month to respond to emergency calls such as strokes or hear
serious harm to patients, according to a warning by the healthcare safety watchdog. 94 year old kenneth shadbolt waited more than five hours for an ambulance after a bad fall an accident that proved fatal. our health correspondentjim reed has this story. his only spell out of the country was national service after the war. always lived in that village, which had been camden, all his life. he was very well known. he was very much a character of that town. gerry shadbolt has been trying to piece together what happened on the night his father died. he was looking for the ambulance that never came. kenneth was in good shape for a 94 year old. a retired carpenter, he lived alone in the cotswolds. on that night, though, the health service was under pressure. the bbc applied to see documents from an inquest into his death. they show that at 2:53 am, ken got out of bed and fell. he collapsed on the floor and called 999 twice from his mobile. transcripts of the calls are spoken by actors. amb