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Coronavirus: Downing Street press conference May 8th; ENGLAND: London: Downing Street: Number 10: INT Professor Stephen Powis (Medical Director, NHS England) and George Eustice MP (Environment Secretary) arriving into press conference / George Eustice MP (Environment Secretary) statement SOT. (Part 1 of 2) - Good afternoon, and welcome to today’s Downing Street Press Conference. I’m pleased to be joined today by Steve Powis the medical director of NHS England. Before we give an update on the latest figures on the Coronavirus and also our work to help support the vulnerable get access to food. Today is of course the 75th anniversary of VE day and although many of the lockdown measures and the social distancing measures that are in place mean that many of the planned events have been unable to take place as originally envisaged, today is an important day to pause and remember and 75 years ago people poured into the streets of our scarred cities to celebrate the end of that most difficult conflict. Our soldiers fought around the world, there were countless acts of bravery, 450,000 British people sadly lost their lives and it was a moment when our whole country pulled together. As Defra secretary I would like to take this opportunity to record the efforts of those who also contributed in a non-military way, in particular our farmers who stepped up to ensure the nation was fed and the many women who responded to the call to join the Women’s Land Army. In a moment I am going to give an update on our work to support the vulnerable get access to food, but firstly let me give you an update on the latest data from the COBR coronavirus data file. I can report through the governments ongoing monitoring and testing programme as of today: 1,631,561 tests for coronavirus have now been carried out in the UK, including 97,029 tests carried out yesterday; 211,364 people have tested positive, that’s an increase of 4,649 cases since yesterday; 11,788 peopl...
Coronavirus: Downing Street press conference May 8th; ENGLAND: London: Downing Street: Number 10: INT Professor Stephen Powis (Medical Director, NHS England) and George Eustice MP (Environment Secretary) arriving into press conference / George Eustice MP (Environment Secretary) statement SOT. (Part 1 of 2) - Good afternoon, and welcome to today’s Downing Street Press Conference. I’m pleased to be joined today by Steve Powis the medical director of NHS England. Before we give an update on the latest figures on the Coronavirus and also our work to help support the vulnerable get access to food. Today is of course the 75th anniversary of VE day and although many of the lockdown measures and the social distancing measures that are in place mean that many of the planned events have been unable to take place as originally envisaged, today is an important day to pause and remember and 75 years ago people poured into the streets of our scarred cities to celebrate the end of that most difficult conflict. Our soldiers fought around the world, there were countless acts of bravery, 450,000 British people sadly lost their lives and it was a moment when our whole country pulled together. As Defra secretary I would like to take this opportunity to record the efforts of those who also contributed in a non-military way, in particular our farmers who stepped up to ensure the nation was fed and the many women who responded to the call to join the Women’s Land Army. In a moment I am going to give an update on our work to support the vulnerable get access to food, but firstly let me give you an update on the latest data from the COBR coronavirus data file. I can report through the governments ongoing monitoring and testing programme as of today: 1,631,561 tests for coronavirus have now been carried out in the UK, including 97,029 tests carried out yesterday; 211,364 people have tested positive, that’s an increase of 4,649 cases since yesterday; 11,788 peopl...
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