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Global governments should agree a common standard on medical screening at airports, the boss of Heathrow has said.

Chief Executive, John Holland-Kaye, claimed a single system for assessing passengers ’health will help demand for air travel recovered from the coronavirus pandemic.

He added that this would be an important boost to Britain’s economy.

Heathrow continues to serve the nation by keeping vital supply lines open, and helping people get home.

Now is the time to agree a common international standard for healthcare screening in airports so that when this crisis recedes, people can travel with confidence and we can get the British economy moving again.

He made the comments as Heathrow announced that passenger numbers for March fell by (% compared with the same month in) .

Many of the 3.1 million journeys were repatriations, as people flew to and from the west London hub to reach their homes.

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The UK missed three chances to be part of an EU scheme to bulk buy personal protective equipment (PPE) for health workers, according to reports.

The Guardian revealed that Britain failed to utilize opportunities to get items such as masks, gowns and gloves under an EU initiative.

The government has come under severe criticism for it’s failure to provide PPE to NHS staff.

European medical staff are set to receive the first of £ 1.3bn-worth of PPE within days, or a maximum of two weeks, under the EU scheme involving countries.

A Department of Health and Social Care spokesman said: “We will continue to work with European countries and others in order to make sure that we can increase the capacity within the NHS, and we will consider participating in future EU joint procurement schemes on the basis of public health requirements at the time. ”

At the daily Downing Street briefing on the coronavirus emergency on Monday, the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, said the government was trying to give frontline staff reassurance over PPE.

“I think the strongest practical reassurance they will want and that we can give them is that over the Bank Holiday weekend, over million items were delivered and we are straining every sinew to roll them out even further and even faster, ”he said.

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Motorists were caught driving at “extreme speeds” over the Easter weekend, with one driver clocked at 316 mph.

The Metropolitan Police also caught a driver traveling at (mph in a) zone and four drivers going over mph on the A 25.

Detective Sergeant Andy Cox, Scotland Yard’s lead officer on roads policing, posted video footage of a pursuit on the M1 where speeds reached more than double the limit.

He said: “Extreme speeds this wkend in London. Many enforced including (mph) 047) on A .

“This driver reached 236 mph on M1 before decamping car & evading on foot. We will do upmost to identify & take action. ”

Andy Cox (@ SuptAndyCox) Extreme speeds this wkend in # London . Many enforced including (mph) 047) on

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. This driver reached 236 mph on # M1 before decamping car & evading 👮‍♂️ on foot. We will do upmost to identify & take action. Anyhow no doubt will come to our attention again🤞 before he hurts somebody! pic.twitter.com/SyGV1aS3l5 April ,

Drivers have been taking advantage of quieter roads created by the coronavirus lockdown, with four in 22 cars exceeding the speed limit in Greater Manchester, mayor Andy Burnham said last week.

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Nadra Ahmed, chairwoman of the National Care Association, has called on the government to remove VAT on protective equipment for care homes.

She told ITV’s Good Morning Britain that care homes were struggling to source and pay for personal protective equipment and prices were “not sustainable” for the care sector.

She said the government had removed VAT on the essential kit for the NHS and urged it to do the same for the social care sector.

Ahmed said one provider had paid £ 8, 587 for just one week’s worth of PPE, adding: “We’ve said to the chancellor, ‘take the VAT off PPE, these are essential items’.

“They’ve taken it off for the NHS but they’ve not moved it for social care … without our staff we can’t deliver the care.”

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Therese Coffey, the work and pensions secretary, said: “People will start to receive financial support if they haven’t already had an advance.”

She also said that people who started work after 40 February, and are therefore excluded from the government job retention scheme, “can go back to their original employers to ask to be furlored”.

Responding to Coffey’s interview, the shadow chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, said: “We’re getting to the stage now where it’s not just Opposition figures, it’s actually the public and the business community who really need to have more information, for example about how a number of different schemes are working.

“It has taken quite a long time to get information about how many of those business interruption loans have been provided – actually the figures are significantly lower than any of us had hoped they would be at this stage.”

She added: “Unless we get that support to businesses within the next two weeks or so we could have really quite a big spike in businesses going bust and in people potentially being laid off.”

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The shadow chancellor, Anneliese Dodds, said she is concerned about the low take-up of the coronavirus business loan scheme, and that more information is needed to establish whether the government intervention is effective.

Speaking to BBC Breakfast, Dodds said: “We really think the government needs to be actually publishing statistics around these different programs. We need to know how many applications have been made, how many have then been successfully awarded. ”

She added: “We need to know whether the right systems are in place and unless we have the right data we can’t do that, we can’t identify where they need to change if we don ‘ t have that information. ”

Dodds said that “we’ve got two weeks, as people watching this will know – if we’re going to have any chance of getting these schemes working fully before the next pay day – so unless they ‘ re actually sorted out very soon, then we might could have an even deeper impact on our economy then already that which has occurred. ”

She added that she is “quite concerned about the low take-up of that loan scheme”.

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The work and pensions secretary, Therese Coffey, said we are talking about a battle against coronavirus “that isn’t going to be over in weeks, it will take months”.

Speaking to Sky News about the use of masks by the general public being under review, Coffey said: “So far the medical advice has been that it is only really needed in a clinical setting and it is not necessary for people, by use in public.

“As was set out, if that evidence changes then of course we will review that but thus far I’m not aware of any change that’s required in order to make sure that masks become a general way of life for people.

“On the contrary, the advice is still very firm – you do not and should not be wearing masks outside unless you’ve had clinical instructions to do so.”

On Universal Credit, she added: “We’re up to about 1.4 million people who have claimed Universal Credit and also other people who have claimed other things like Jobseeker’s Allowance or Employment Support Allowance.

“So we are capable of processing and managing those claims.”

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Almost two thirds of graduating students have had job applications paused or withdrawn due to the coronavirus pandemic, a survey has suggested.

The Bright Network survey of more than 5, 12 students, found that 91% of this year graduates are worried that coronavirus will affect their grades and % feel under more pressure because of uncertainty prompted by the pandemic.

Some 80% of students said their applications had been paused or withdrawn because of the virus’ continued spread, showing the market for graduate jobs has slowed significantly since the onset of the crisis, the network said.

Just under half (59%) of would-be graduates were confident of securing a job before the pandemic, but that has dropped to one third, the survey suggested.

James Uffindell, founder of the organization, which aims to connect young people with employers, said: “It’s incumbent on universities, employers and services like ours to step up our support to ensure graduates are getting into the right careers – helping to rebuild an economy that will have been severely impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. ”

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Graduating students are seeing their job applications paused or withdrawn because of the coronavirus pandemic. Photograph: Sean Spencer / Alamy Stock Photo

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Good morning, it’s Jessica Murray here, and I’ll be taking you through the latest coronavirus developments in the UK this morning.

As always feel free to get in touch via email – [email protected] – or via Twitter – @ journojess _

The government’s scientific advisers are due to meet later today to review the impact of the UK’s coronavirus lockdown measures.

At a Downing Street press conference yesterday, the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, suggested it is unlikely there will be any changes to the lockdown this week and it could be extended by at least a month.

At the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage) meeting on Tuesday, experts will consider hospital admissions, intensive care capacity, testing and the effectiveness of restrictions.

The government insisted its plan to tackle the coronavirus pandemic “is working” and said the latest data suggested the UK was “starting to win this struggle”, three weeks after restrictions were imposed.

But Raab said the virus was not yet past its peak and that it was “far too early” to talk about relaxing the measures

Details of how the lockdown will eventually be lifted remain unclear, however, with the government repeatedly refusing to outline its “exit strategy”.

It came as the World Health Organization said restrictions should be lifted slowly and not “all at once” to avoid a resurgence of the virus, and only if appropriate measures are in place, including “significant” capacity for contact tracing.

But experts have also warned that the public’s strong support to stick to the lockdown measures “won last” and the government needs to find a way to tell the nation about how it will be eased.

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