matt hancock talking to andrew marr. british tourists at a hotel in tenerife are being tested again today, after they received guidance from the foreign office saying they could fly home within 2a hours of testing negative for the virus. 0ur correspondent fiona trott is there. the focus has been on that hotel behind you, what has happened today? todayis behind you, what has happened today? today is a crucial day for the british guests here. arrangements are being made to get them home. all day yesterday, they were queueing up for nasal swabs for covid—i9 and some of them are being called back for a second test. that is because they cannot fly more than 2a hours after that test. let me explain why thatis after that test. let me explain why that is so important. remember, companies like jet2 were that is so important. remember, companies likejet2 were saying we can't fly you back unless you have had a two week quarantine here or you have tested negative. if they test negative, some of the guests are saying they are expec

he was speaking this morning to andrew marr. we don't take anything off the table at this stage, because you've got to make sure you have all the tools available, if that is what is necessary. under the worst—case scenario, we would have to take some quite significant actions that would have social and economic disruption. and you've already seen some other countries take some of these actions. what we don't have is enough ventilators, i think only nine or ten or ii beds across england at the moment vacant for people who might need ventilators, which is part of what you might need if you're really seriously ill with coronavirus. well, i saw those figures published in the guardian and they are wrong and out of date. are they? so, how many do we have? we have 15 now, and we can ramp that up to 500, and then, if necessary to 5,000. 5,000 ventilator systems? well, 5,000 beds that are able to cope with the worst impact of this virus. but, of course, if the numbers get enormous, it doesn't matter what scale of a peacetime type nhs y

now, robertjenrick, the communities secretary, told andrew marr earlier what would happen this week with them. today we are contacting the 1.5 million people who will need to stay at home. many of those people will be looked after by friends, family and neighbours but where they will not be able to do that, and there are some people who are isolated and lonely who do not have that support network around them, we will create a big national effort to help those individuals with the armed forces, councils and volunteers, and they will receive parcels of food from us starting from the end of this coming week. for the rest of us, we need to act responsibly and be thoughtful and considerate when we go shopping. we have a food sector which is resilient. it should be able to provide enough food for all of us. that was the communities secretary in the uk. the british government is urging everyone to do their bit but some people are saying the government has not done its bit in adequately equipping the nhs. it's a two strand strategy, isn't it? there's the stuff we can all do to try and limit the

in the last hour health secretary matt hancock appeared on the andrew marr programme. quite soon, anybody over the age of 70 is going to be asked to stay inside their house for up to four months. is that a realistic thing to ask to do? the protection of the vulnerable and elderly by asking them to stay away, to stay—at—home, that is in our action plan. but we do not want formally to say yet that people should do that. the reason for that is simply this length of time that they'd need to stay self isolated, stay—at—home, to protect themselves is a very big ask. it is a very long time. we do know that if you ask people to do this sort of thing, then they can tire of it. we know it has negative impacts and real negative impacts. sorry tojump in, it is notjust all of those millions of people staying inside their houses, it is also presumably anybody who is caring for them. there are 5 million carers in this country, 600,000 people caring for someone with dementia, but there is no point asking them to stay inside their houses, unless you're taking the same measures

that was the health secretary matt hancock speaking to andrew marr. well let's turn to south korea now, because they have seen a slowdown in the number of cases, and may now be over the worst. how have they done it? andrew spoke to south korea's foreign minister gang kyung—wha. thank you forjoining us, you have asa thank you forjoining us, you have as a country adopted a particular... thank you for having me. you have adopted a particular strategy, explain to us the basis of your strategy. yes, well, the basic principle is openness, transparency and fully keeping the public informed. this is paying off, we have a very good health care system to begin with, we have a system that is highly wired, as you can imagine, and fully utilising that we have dealt this outbreak from the very beginning with full transparency and thatis beginning with full transparency and that is the way we have won the public trust and support with this. we are seeing a stabilising trend, for three days in a row, the number of newly confirmed positive cases is smaller than the

mr sileri was speaking to the bbc‘s andrew marr. if lockdown starts to work, we started lockdown in the middle of march, we started the first lockdown between the eighth and the 9th of march so obviously we need to wait at least 1a, 17, 18 days after that to see the reduction of numbers of infected people. over the last few days, we had an increase of infection and this was due to the increase of swabs, so we are searching more, and obviously we have more results of positive people, mainly with low or without symptoms. could i ask you to explain exactly what has changed do you think? over the last two or three days, we have started to do more swabs, especially to trace... you are testing more? we are testing more, exactly. 0bviously, when you test more, you find more positive people and this will explain the increased number of positive that we found over the last two days, but i believe that we are living in the peak of this epidemic. i believe in one week's time, maximum ten days, we will see a drop, a significant drop of positive

let's have a listen to what he had to say on andrew marr a little while ago. it's a huge task and one i feel a great responsibility to make sure we get our response right. what i can tell you is i am very well supported and we are working around the clock to make sure that whatever the scenario is, we are very well prepared. are you going to be spending and borrowing more to get us through this crisis? you will have to wait for wednesday but we are looking very hard at the range of scenarios and making sure that in each of those we can respond appropriately, and that means providing support for public services. we've already done that with regard to the nhs, making sure we can support vulnerable people and also making sure we can help businesses get through what could be an impact on their businesses, could be significant but for a temporary period of time. so, talking about businesses. one thing many employers are going to have to deal with is paying a much higher proportion than usual of workers' sick pay with the forecast that, in a worst—case scenario, u

it's worth listening to his appearance on the bbc‘s andrew marr show at length he was speaking this morning. i'm joined now by the health secretary, matt hancock. welcome, matt hancock. it is good to be here. you were here two weeks ago and when we were speaking then 36 people were infected in britain and nobody had died. what do you think will be the situation two weeks hence? so far we have seen over 1000 people affected on the formal figures. we think the figure is higher than that. much higher? that is right. sadly now we have seen over 20 people have died and we are working round the clock to protect life and to keep people safe, in particular to protect the vulnerable and those who are most vulnerable to this disease, the elderly and people with pre—existing health conditions. it is a 2a/7 effort. when we spoke a couple of weeks ago, some people were surprised at the extent of the measure we were saying we were prepared to take, that we set out in the action plan. no longer. now people are saying these are the sorts of measures that we need. on thursday at the press conference we we

but the reason matt hancock gave on the television yesterday on the andrew marr programme was that this is in the plan. we're not asking people to do it yet because people might tire of it if it's too long a period and therefore they won't comply, i think. i was just going to say that this idea that we can delay social distancing measures that are known to be effective and then time itjust right and implement them are just the right moment to blunt. the epidemic has never been done successfully to my knowledge before and rarely even been tried. what we know from flu pandemic dating back to 1918, as well as our experience with this pandemic, is that the places that implement these measures early do better than those that don't. ok, so the behavior question, which if you do it for too long, people won't comply. what do you say to that? that's a conjecture. and i think that's a difficult problem. but i would rather that we end up three weeks from now in a situation more like china, where in a country of a billion people, there are ten new cases per day than in a situation like italy where

he is also on the andrew marr show in to take. he is also on the andrew marrshow in an to take. he is also on the andrew marr show in an hour or so so we will hear more from him then. thanks, nick. british holiday makers continue to be affected, with easyjet the latest airline to announce it will stop flights to and from spain. the government there has declared a state of emergency. our correspondent, simonjones, is outside heathrow this morning. big implications, simon, for people travelling to and from spain. but then lots of questions about travelling anywhere really and therefore really big and awkward questions for the travel industry to wrestle with? yes, very difficult times for travellers and the travel industry alike. particularly when you consider 18 million british people travel to spain each year. now the reason they arose this lockdown in spain is because it's got the second highest rate of deaths from coronavirus in europe and the lockdown means that people they are being told that they should only leave their homes if they are going out to get food or medical supp

he was speaking on the andrew marr show on bbc one. let's listen again to the full interview. i'm joined now by the health secretary, matt hancock. welcome, matt hancock. it is good to be here. you were here two weeks ago and when we were speaking then 36 people were infected in britain and nobody had died. what do you think of the situation two weeks hence? so far we have seen over 1,000 people affected on the formalfigures. we think the figure is higher than that. much higher? that is right. sadly now we have seen over 20 people have died and we are working round the clock to protect life and to keep people safe, in particular to protect the vulnerable and those who are most vulnerable to this disease, the elderly and people with pre—existing health conditions. it is a 24/7 effort. when we spoke a couple of weeks ago, some people were surprised at the extent of the measures we were saying we were prepared to take, that we set out in the action plan. no longer. now people are saying these are the sorts of measures that we need. on thursday at the press conference, we were t

marr. earlier, our political correspondent nick eardly explained the thinking behind what the government is doing. the argument that ministers are continuing to make is that they're going to be guided by science. the message from matt hancock this morning was they are absolutely prepared to take whatever action is required to try and stop the spread of coronavirus, but they want to do it at the right time. as you say, i think it's fair to say that the criticism and the questioning of what the government has been doing has been increasing. we have been hearing from politicians and others, some of our viewers, i'm sure, who want to know more about why the government is taking different measures to other places in europe, for example. now, the immediate response to that is the government is going to publish more of its scientific advice. but i think we are going to see over the next few days and weeks, a ramping up of the measures designed to help stop the spread of the virus. so matt hancock

the health secretary matt hancock spoke to andrew marr a few minutes ago. he responded to claims there aren't enough hospital beds with ventilators to cope with coronavirus, if there is a major outbreak. we have 50 available now and we can mmp we have 50 available now and we can ramp that up to 500 and then if necessary to 5000. 5000 ventilators? 5000 beds that are able to cope with the worst impact of this virus. if the worst impact of this virus. if the numbers get enormous, it doesn't matter what scale of a peacetime type nhs you have, the pressure on it of course will be significant. we understand that. but we also have plans to rise to that challenge. governments around the world have moved to limit some public events. this morning, tokyo held its marathon. 0ur correspondentjenny hill is there and has more. well, the numbers are continuing to grow. relatively slowly here injapan, but they are growing nevertheless. particularly in the north in hokido where the number of cases have almost doubled. you will perhaps recall on friday that the authorities de

speaking to the andrew marr programme, dr michael ryan, executive director of the world health organization, urged caution, warning that the process could be a long one. i think we have to be realistic, vaccines take a long time to develop, test, prove they are effective and then you have to produce enough vaccine for everybody. that's a very long process. we have to be very careful. this vaccine will be given to potentially billions of people and we have to make sure that it's absolutely safe and it does good, not harm. we are talking at least a year. that doesn't mean that we are helpless. we can do a lot to stop this disease right now, and we can save a lot of lives right now. we will work hard on the vaccines, the vaccines will come, but we need to get down and do what we do we need to do now. our political correspondent helen catt is here. the british prime minister bob johnson urging everybody yes, cop shot life has changed, we have got to do things differently for a while now. social interaction leads to the disease spreading and people dying. don't leave your home unless you really

mr sileri was speaking to the bbc‘s andrew marr. i believe the lockdown starts to work. i mean, we started lockdown in the middle of march. i mean, we did start with the first lockdown between the eighth and the ninth of march, so obviously you need to wait at least 1a, 17, 18 days after that to see the reduction of number of infected people. over the last few days, we had an increase of infection and this was due to the increase of the swab that had been performed. so we are looking, we are searching more and obviously we have more results of positive people, mainly with low and without symptoms. i'm sorry, can i ask you to explain exactly what has changed, do you think? over the last two, three days, we start to do more swabs, especially to trace... you are testing more, basically. we are testing more, exactly. and obviously, when you test more, you may find more positive people and this will explain the increased number of positive people that we found over the last two days. but i believe that we are living in the peak of this epidemic. i believe that in one week tim

marr show, was mr hancock saying he would ask nations manufacturers to switch to producing ventilators which are not currently made in this country because they will be needed to help treat people with severe symptoms of coronavirus. we have a doctor who is a consultant at the university of southampton hospital. we spoke to him by phone early and asked him to explain the importance of ventilators. about one in 20 people infected with the virus will require some form of enhanced or critical care. some of those will need help breathing. that is where the ventilator comes in. a ventilator is an assisting device for helping gas get into the lungs and for it to get out too. are you at all surprised by the figure that was announced today that at present the uk has around 5000 ventilators available? it doesn't surprise me. we have not been in this situation before. 5000, for what we would be currently using them for is probably a surplus. but of course the situation has changed because we have a virus that attacks the respiratory system and people who need intensive care. so we are short and

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marr show. they will want to talk about how they plan to tackle future cases. they are keen to stress that we are in a containment phase. what is interesting is that across the political spectrum there seems to be broad political support to contain the virus. the labour shadow health secretary says he broadly supports their action. but the criticism has come of communication. this is what this is designed to address. this idea of a war cabinet on communications. just trying to get the message out there. i was speaking to an mp just this week where they had a few cases in his constituency, a labour mp. in brighton and hove. he was saying that what was clear to him was the nhs strategy for containing up was working but there was panic if you are not explaining why is that person self isolating but that person self isolating but that person isn't. so it's that sort of thing that these measures are key to address. daily news briefings, which dou btless address. daily news briefings, which d ou btles

we played an interview with the south korean foreign minister from the andrew marr show where she put the emphasis on testing. we do not have that emphasis, part from people who are already in hospital, but we are looking at social distancing, whereas austria is banning groups of more than five people collecting together which eliminates the entire social activity of the country. that is quite a range of options. the government says it is being led by medical advice but presumably these other governments are being led by medical advice as well. it is quite confusing? absolutely but with science, you can have the fa cts but with science, you can have the facts of the violence and how it behaves but you have to apply to the situation that is the country you are in. —— the virus. the cases in italy started in a concentrated area and overwhelm the health service in the north of the country. in the uk it has spread across the whole country and that is having an impact in different ways. the government has a team of scientific and medical advisers and they are saying they are making the

interesting to him on andrew marr yesterday saying he can't answer the questions! but he kept his cool. it will be really interesting to.|j didn't know this about white eggs, farmers are calling on shoppers to stop eating brown eggs and eat white ones to improve animal welfare. darker breeds, such as the lomond brown, are more aggressive and can pick other hens to death and they have had laser treatment to blunt their beaks are just after birth.|j had no idea! if we had more white eggs, those hens wouldn't have to have that treatment. why do people not by white eggs? i think it might have been to do with people thinking it was more healthy. you get white eggsin it was more healthy. you get white eggs in america. they routinely eat them in other countries. we never get them. are they more expensive? i don't know. dan, you are normally the master of egg news. in the us and india they account for more than 90% of the market. and india they account for more than 9096 of the market. another farm—based incident, guess the headline, i'm going to keep it covered. it soun

the andrew marr show is on bbc one at nine o'clock. andrew, what do you have on today's programme? well, no—one in my lifetime has had to push a budget with the pressure that rishi sunak faces. to push a budget with the pressure that rishi sunakfaces. hejoins me in the studio to talk about coronavirus and the economy. i'm alsojoined by coronavirus and the economy. i'm also joined by doctor margaret harris of the world organisation and the shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell. we'll be talking about a lot of things on the show but the coronavirus has a severe effect on the economy and how it will change all of our lives —— of the world health organization. we are here on the bbc news channel until 9am this morning. there is a taste of what is coming up on the programme. —— here is. women around the world will be celebrating gender equality this international women's day — we'll be asking what it means to be a woman in 2020. we will have the latest from meghan markle at an event of marking that yesterday. and glaucoma, the leading cause of blindness in the world, but many of

the french europe minister was on the andrew marr programme yesterday saying if that part of the deal colla pses, saying if that part of the deal collapses, the whole deal will full down. french ministers say, if there is no deal sorted for access to british waters, there will be a blockade of calais within 24—hour is. this is a huge area of concern, isn't it? we are not going to trade away our fishing isn't it? we are not going to trade away ourfishing in isn't it? we are not going to trade away our fishing in a deal with the eu orany away our fishing in a deal with the eu or any other negotiating partner for that matter. so what happens if there is a blockade of calais, where 17% of uk trade relies on that dover to calais crossing? i'm not going into what ifs. we are going to get a deal with the eu which does not involve selling out our fishing. the same is true about the deal i am talking about today, the deal with the us. i am not trading in what ifs. president macron says if the fishing deal., that would trigger street protests in france, which is already economically fragile,

the andrew marr show is on bbc one at 9am. andrew, what do you have on today's programme? it is really interesting. who do you actually want to hear from at the moment? we will speak to the man in charge of the relevant parties of the world health organization in the search for a vaccine and cures. i will talk to two front line doctors in london and birmingham. i will talk to the mayor of london, the great hotspot for this at the moment. i will talk about the mental effect of what we are all going through, and also the communities secretary on whose behalf letters have been sent out to 1.5 million people this weekend, who are particularly vulnerable, asking them to stay at home. we will see you later. thank you. stay with us, headlines coming up. hello, this is breakfast with ben thompson and rachel burden. here's a summary of this morning's main news. the prime minister has issued a rallying call to the public to do more to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus. borisjohnson urged families not to visit vulnerable loved ones on mother's day and warned the nhs could be

the andrew marr show is on after breakfast at 9.00am. hejoins us now. what do you have in store, andrew? i'm joined by one of the ministers at the very centre of trying to deal with this crisis, michael gove. the head of the royal college of emergency medicine. i'm joined by matt lucas, he is trying to get meals to nhs staff —— nhs staff. joe wicks, who is keeping everybody fit from his front room. and the italian health minister to update us on what is going on there. a very busy show. different studio, same kind of show. i partly hold joe wicks responsible for our so big tool. all those lunges at that time of the morning is not good for me. coming up in the next half—hour on breakfast, the world's oldest man turns 112 today — we'll find out how bob weighton plans to mark his big day while keeping himself safe from the coronavirus. hello, this is breakfast with rogerjohnson and nina warhurst. here's a summary of this morning's main news. things will get worse before they get better — that will be the message from the prime minister as he writ