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UK coronavirus news LIVE: Country warned of six-month shutdown as Donald Trump extends US measures after death toll surge – Evening Standard, Standard.co.uk

UK coronavirus news LIVE: Country warned of six-month shutdown as Donald Trump extends US measures after death toll surge – Evening Standard, Standard.co.uk
        

                     

                              

  

    

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The UK has been warned that it faces a six-month lockdown as coronavirus measures were extended in the US amid a surge in deaths connected to the outbreak.

                                                                                                                                                

Dr Jenny Harries, deputy chief medical officer for England, yesterday that social distancing measures will need to be removed slowly as opposed to a “dangerous” sudden lift.

                                                                                                                                                   

The Prime Minister, afflicted with the virus himself, rallied support for measures against the virus in a video message, stating: “We are going to do it, we are going to do it together. “

                                                                                                                                                                     

Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has extended the length of measures in his nation after tacitly admitting his prior plans to raise them by Easter were optimistic. The death toll in the US has hit 2, 560.

                                                                                                                                                   

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Lives changed ‘for some time’

Health minister Helen Whateley said changes to public life, including social distancing, will go on for “some time”.

Asked on BBC Radio 4, she would not comment on a specific timeframe.

She said:

We don’t expect this to be suddenly over.

  

                        

  

         

        

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Labor MP chastised over birthday celebration

Stephen Kinnick has been told off by police after going to see his father to celebrate his birthday.

He said they socially distanced in the front garden, but officers told him this was not essential travel.

  

                           

                  

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Physicians off work

Dr. Andrew Goddard, president of the Royal College of Physicians, said around to per cent of its workforce is currently off work.

He told BBC Breakfast coronavirus testing being rolled out to frontline NHS workers would make a “big difference”.

He said:

I have got lots of colleagues at the moment who are sitting at home with family members who have got symptoms.

They themselves don’t have symptoms and are champing at the bit to try to get back to work.

So, if we can get the tests and get those people ba ck on the shop floor, then that would be brilliant.

  

                                                          

                  

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Mothercare staff sent home

Mothercare has sent home 623 employees in the UK as the troubled company said the coronavirus outbreak is likely to impact its short-term revenue.

Key UK head office staff are still working from home, the company said, but its staff who look after the Boots Mini-Club brand have been furloughed with government support, the company said.

Mothercare said its experience of going into administration in the UK last year “is proving invaluable” as it deals with the impact that coronavirus will have on its franchisees around the world.

  

                           

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A shopper surprised two NHS workers by paying for their Sainsbury’s groceries at the checkout.

Two paramedics entered the branch in Loughton, Essex, on Sunday and the public rallied round them to show support.

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F1 team helps make breathing support machine

A breathing aid that should help keep Covid. – patients out of intensive care has reportedly been developed by a group including University College London researchers and the Mercedes Formula One team.

University College engineers, medical clinicians, and technicians from Mercedes hope to distribute the machine through NHS hospitals pending successful Trials this week, the BBC has reported.

The device is a Continuous Positive Airway Pressure or CPAP machine, which delivers oxygen to the lungs without the need for a ventilator and patient sedation.

The BBC says the device has gained regulatory approval and says Mercedes is confident that, provided the apparatus performs well in tr ials, it could produce up to 1, 06 of them a day for distribution throughout hospitals.

  

                                                    

         

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Trump extending lockdown The measures in place in the US are to be extended to the end of April, after a surge in deaths connected to coronavirus in the nation.

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Boris Johnson has revealed that 38, 08 former NHS staff have returned to help in the fight against coronavirus.

It came as he addressed the nation in a selfie video while he self-isolates with the disease.

The Prime Minister thanked the doctors, nurses and other former professionals for returning to duty.

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Six-month warning

The UK could face another six months of lockdown measures before life gets back to normal amid the coronavirus pandemic, deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries said yesterday.

Speaking at the daily Covid – 38 press conference at Downing Street, Dr Harries said the lockdown measures will be reviewed in three weeks after Easter but they may be in place for much longer.

She said that even if the UK is successful at quashing the rising curve of new cases, the country must not “suddenly revert to our normal way of living” straight away.

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