Name: Coronavirus: Questions around home testing - as thousands volunteer to help NHS
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well, we had one of the senior advisers to the government today, medical advisers saying that he thought we were about 2 to 2.5 weeks away from the peak of this crisis and then the government's own chief medical officer's saying it was a close run thing, how the N hs would cope with that.

Past simple

We've also today had Maur on the economic warfront, as it were.

Future simple

We're going to get news tomorrow of what the government is going to the package.

They've got ready for self employed people.

But we also heard that the number of new applicants to trying it universal credit is running at seven toe eight times what it normally would be.

Absolutely extraordinary figures and 70 big things happening at the moment.

Parliament has just just before it, Rose passed the contingency fund.

That's the ready cash that government always likes to have ready.

Normally, about 2% of the entire previous years spent about 10 billion.

It's just passed a law there that allows that to go up to 50% of the government's previous spend last year, about £266 billion.

Jeremy Corbyn was doing his last prime minister's questions as labor leader, and he said to Boris Johnson, Is there any way we can carry on scrutinizing you in these extraordinary times even while apartment is away?

The truth is, we don't know really how that will happen.

We can't be utterly sure Parliament comes back the day it's meant to on the 21st of April and in what form it comes back.

Just more uncertainty On the second full day of locked down police checking on London commuters this morning Well, last time, Adam down on the platforms.

Scenes like these still worry the government, but elsewhere signs that the lock down is being observed.

All this emptiness coming at a great economic costs.

Welcome pensions secretary with her permanent secretary adjusting for social distance, their aides, told to do the same, told MPs.

There have been 477,000 new universal credit claims in the last nine days, so the universal credit system is open, ready to take that.

In fact, in the last nine days, we've processed nearly half a 1,000,000 claims.

We don't know if they're self employed or different stages.

Jeremy Corbyn that his last prime minister's question Time is Labour leader complained of universal credit claimants finding themselves at the back of massive cues last night.

They're accused of over 100 and 10,000 people trying to get onto the D W P system in order to register to apply for universal credit.

Will the prime minister now put extra resources and funding to boost the D.

Prime minister said there would be helped with D.

P and he made this wider from We're doing a quite extraordinary thing, which is for the first time in our history, to get through this crisis.

We are putting our arms as a country around every single worker, every single employee in this country.

The prime minister was repeatedly pressed on exactly when the N HS would have sufficient testing equipment to test N HS staff and others who need it good.

The prime minister give us some idea as to when we will be able to get back to routine testing in the community as happens in career in Germany and other countries and Should we not now introduce weekly tests for N HS staff so we can remove from them the fear that they might be infecting their own patients?

Just show whether or not you've had the disease on on his on his point that have been raised several times about how soon can we get any chest off another public sector workers tested in advance to see whether they have these?

Can the prime minister tell the house in the 80,000 care homes around Britain what date will lay?

You expect tests to be carried out on the day that symptoms emerge on the on the on the test?

A zay said earlier on the answers were, We want to roll that out as soon as we possibly can.

Prime Minister, the frontline staff in the National Health Service and in working in social care couldn't be clearer.

They want that test on covered 19 that tells them whether they got it.

They want it now and in the House of Commons again and again today.

You said they're gonna get it as soon as possible.

People might have a a little bit more confidence about where we're going as a country.

If you could answer this question, maybe how did we come to be so woefully behind other countries that have checked, evaluated on deployed tests in much, much bigger numbers?

We are massively ramping up our our testing programs, buying in huge numbers of test to see whether you you've had it already, but also pushing forward very passed on testing people to see whether they currently have it.

There are multiple components of these tests, including the chemicals that make them up, the swabs that you use and the wrist shortages along many of these supply chains.

Essentially because every country in the world is simultaneously wanting this new thing.

Comparing different countries is actually quite different is quite difficult.

Different countries got different testing strategies, but you're certainly right that what we need to do is look at those countries that have actually got more testing than us and work out how to do it the way they're doing it.

Prince Charles, it was announced, has had the test and has got the virus.

Aides said Prince Charles had mild symptoms, prompting one SNP MSP to tweet.

Given if symptoms are said to be mild like many, I wonder how he was tested when many n hs and social care workers cannot get tested.

The pope and the archbishop of Canterbury coordinated a reading of the Lord's Prayer at 11 this morning, but the archbishop of Canterbury said it was to help people through a difficult time for Manchester, the cream has signified her royal assent to the following acts Contingencies Fund Act Corona Virus Act Parliament's last acts before closing early for Easter cross party backing for the contingency fund to rise from £10.6 billion to 266 billion on top of the emergency laws that give even more powers to a government already operating in wartime mode.

An announcement that the government has ordered millions of tests to show if you've had a Corona virus on have antibodies was challenged by the chief medical officer just hours later as he warned the tests might not even work on that.

If they are validated, they won't go to the general public, adding, It's not something you'll suddenly get on the Internet anytime soon.

Our health and social care correspondent Victoria McDonald reports, We've now bought 3.5 1,000,000 antibody tests that will allow people to see whether they have had the virus and are immune to it.

It was an announcement that surprised many.

An antibody test is the Holy Grail because it can show who has already had covered 19 and then they can safely go back to work.

But it's still not clear how reliable they're.

So they're currently being tested on Oxford.

This is what we were told this morning that a number of tests arrived.

At the moment, there will be a very effectively.

The several 1,000,000 tests have been purchased for use, so we need to evaluate the bark trees there.

Be clear that they do work as they claim to do so once they have been tested on.

They testify that they will be distributed into the community in which there will be a sense of order and best buy.

By this afternoon, though, there appeared to be some rowing back.

We need to help make sure we can get N HS workers tested to make sure we can work out who is immune alarm a certain immune to this test things infection and who isn't.

And we will basically go out in kind of a graded way from there.

I do not think, and I want to be clear that this is something will suddenly be ordering on the Internet next week.

We need so not for the general public and not for anybody if they don't work, he said, raising the possibility that the health secretary's announcement might have bean premature.

There are significant problems to overcome with antibody tests that they might give a false result or give a positive result.

But for a different Corona virus, there are six other strains that affect humans.

There are, of course, tests which tell you if you do have the virus.

Up until recently, patients could be referred to these drive three stations and there are home testing kits like the one we revealed on Channel four news.

But the N HS test is still not available for health and social care workers only for patients in hospital with pneumonia or care home clusters.

In the midst of the gloom, there wants some hopeful news.

Professor Neil Ferguson, recovering at home from the virus, told the Common Science and Technology Committee that the lock down means wth e N h s should be able to cope.

He also said that the peak and demand for intensive care should be in about two or three weeks and should then decline thereafter.

In Wuhan, at the height of the China epidemic, they opened gymnasiums and conference centers for the less critically ill patients, while this recently housed the U.

Now it's a field hospital in a country overwhelmed by the virus.

And here, as health chiefs looked to Spain and Italy, they have begun the preparations for a Nightingale hospital at the Excel Centre in east London and the N, E.

The details are scant, but 500 patients are expected to arrive next week, and we have seen this video from a man claiming to be working on the preparations today.

I didn't take this virus to be set very seriously until, you know, I saw this morning command.

And this is the size of a little plans are that they will scale up when they need to.

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