With their children. You are watching bbc news. Lets stay with that story as the government has acknowledged that its covid 19 test and Trace Programme must continue to improve. Scientists have warned that it isnt good enough to prevent a second, potentially bigger wave of the virus when children return to school. Baroness harding executive chair of nhs test and trace says the way to combat the virus is for everyone to come forward for a test if they have symptoms. If you read the reports published in the lancet, what researchers have said is that we need to have an effective test and trace system. This percentage of people with symptoms that they are targeting and the percentage of people that are then reached and contacted are well within what our organisation can and is doing. So we are already contacting 75 80 of people who have been in close contact. And the one thing that i really need everyone in the country to do is to come forward if they have symptoms. The researchers state v
And Nobel Peace Prize lets return to the Northern Irish winner, has died. Politician and Nobel Peace Prize winnerjohn hume, who has died at the age of 83. A bbc investigation finds the number of deaths an architect of the northern from coronavirus in iran is nearly ireland Peace Process, he was regarded as one of the most three times higher than important figures in recent the government claims. Irish political history. Earlier, we heard from the bbcs former ireland correspondent Islamic State militants denis murray, who paid tribute in afghanistan say theyre behind an attack on a prison in the city to the life ofjohn hume. In my opinion, he wasntjust a of jalala bad thats left at least 20 dead and hundreds of prisoners giant of irish politics, he was a trying to flee. Nearly two years giant of irish politics, he was a giant of irish politics, he was a giant of uk politics and i think it on from the collapse of genoas morandi bridge, was a giant of World Politics, as killing 43 people,
To the pandemic means europe will have to wait a little longer to defend their title against the usa in wisconsin. Feeling upbeat during lockdown. Well find out why pop music is getting jollier during this time of trouble. And if its the rain outside not making you happy, i tell you something, brighter, drier weather is on something, brighter, drier weather isoni something, brighter, drier weather is on i will have your full forecast later. Its thursday 9 july. Our top story the cost of dealing with the Coronavirus Crisis now stands at nearly £190 billion, after the chancellor announced a raft of measures to help kick start the economy. £30 billion will be used to help furloughed staff return to work, as well as cut to vat on tourism and hospitality. Keith doyle reports. When it comes to staged photo calls, getting the chancellor to serve lunch is among the better ones although he wasnt quite sure who ordered the katsu curry. Rishi sunak was highlighting his summer economic plan to p
Agreement. Of course there has to be agreement. Of course there has to be a Data Protection agreement and as he knows we plan to publish more and more of this data as open data. We will continue the work to control the virus and we will continue to bring in measures as they are appropriate and i look forward to a return to the spirit of constructive engagement for which the honourable gentleman is so well known. Jeremy hunt. Can i congratulate the Health Secretary for the impressive resilience he has shown through the Coronavirus Crisis but as we both know is that the joy of his job is that windsor is always around the corner and one of the sobering statistics in the mornings report is that the number of people every day overwinter is that the number of people every day over winter who have covid symptoms will increase from 100,000 to 360,000 and it is obviously vital to 360,000 and it is obviously vital to know which one of them have coronavirus and which just has a regular winter flu
Heavy rains in assam leaves millions of people and wildlife struggling to find shelter from flooding. And blast off as the first arab mission to mars launches successfully. This is bbc news with the latest headlines a very warm welcome. For viewers in the uk in the United States, the number of people whove died with covid 19 and around the world. Has passed 140,000, almost a quarter of the global total. But President Trump no deal yet, as eu leaders are taking has dismissed evidence a break before resuming talks from Johns Hopkins university that the us has the worlds try to hammer out a huge seventh highest mortality post coronavirus economic rate from the disease. In an interview with Recovery Plan in brussels. Fox news, he insisted incorrectly that his country the uks Biggest Aerospace had one of the lowest rates. Heres our north america event gets off the ground by going online for the first time, but with the airline correspondent peter bowes. Industry in crisis, what will be achi