This comes a day after the Prime Minister and his partner announced the birth of their son. Good afternoon. Welcome, everyone to this press conference, where i am joined by the chief medical officer and our chief scientific advisor. I am sorry not to be part of this trio for so long. I want to thank everybody who has been doing such a good job in my absence and i want to thank the nhs for getting me back here. In a few minutes, i will hand it over to patrick to update you on the epidemic, but first we will get to todays latest data. Many tests for coronavirus have 611ied out u. K. , including tests yesterday. People have tested positive, an increase of 6000 82 cases since yesterday. People are currently in hospital with coronavirus, compared to 15,359 people yesterday. Sadly, of those tested positive 26,000 have now died. Of 674 an increase fatalities since yesterday. Deaths, notincludes just in hospitals. Across this country, families every day are continuing to lose loved ones before
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Ill is up rise, either pie. Ill summarize it. I am here to product response to the oil spill and designed with the efforts to deal with the consequences. Before i do this, however, i want to express sincere regret as to what happened on behalf of all the employees of exxon and certainly on behalf of myself i really cant tell you how say we are sympathetic and particularly those in alaska and the Prince William sound area and thats where the difficulty is creating a great deal of problems for those people. As weve by, and we will continue doing all we can can in spilling up the and theyve already been this uponment in the area, and high the skies make it a particularly different problem. A few comments about the spill to put it in perspective and its been changed many times. The spill is 240,000 barrels that occurred early on march 24. We have other factual information. The weather was clear. The ship had no known mechanical difficulty. A change was requested because of ice and the outg
Hello, its 10 oclock, im victoria derbyshire. A week and a half to go until the general election and we ve come to North Berwick in east lothian on the firth of forth to talk to voters and ask if what happened in London Bridge on friday is going to influence the way they vote. Meanwhile, in an hours time the Prime Minister will be attending a vigilfor the victims of the London Bridge stabbings jack merritt and saskia jones have been named as the two People Killed by convicted terrorist usman khan. Saskia jones tutor from Cambridge University has paid tribute to her we cold her saskia 100 . The last timei we cold her saskia 100 . The last time i had communication with her was a week ago, i said you are still 100 . She wrote back and said yes, i just read your comments, yours and olivia s comments and they brought a tear to my eye. The political row over whos to blame for the release of the attacker continues weve got to get it right and we have to ask why Early Release was deployed and
Just metres from London Bridge. A service at Southwark Cathedral remembering those killed and injured in friday s attack. Remembering those killed and injured in friday s attack. We have to help ease their pain but also speak into that pain with words of hope. 25 year old jack merritt was leading a prisoner rehabilitation event when he was fatally stabbed. In the words of his father, he was a beautiful spirit who always took the side of the underdog. And floral tributes have been laid at Cambridge University where jack worked. A woman who also died has not yet been named. Three others were injured. Mobile phone footage shows the moment usman khan was chased along the bridge. He sprayed with a fire extinguisher and another man lunges at him with what looks like a long task. Moments later he is pinned to the ground, tour guide thomas gray was one of those he intervened. was one of those he intervenedlj saw was one of those he intervened. saw that something was going on, so originally bef