Name: Coronavirus: “lives at risk” due to lack of protective clothing for health workers - BBC News
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leading health organizations, including the faculty of intensive care medicine, have repeated their warning that a lack off protective equipment, or PPE, is putting lives at risk on.

They called for a clear strategy to ensure a sustained supply.

NRF aircraft has flown to Turkey to collect a shipment of 400,000 clinical gowns.

It's still not clear when it will happen.

Public Health England has admitted that the lack of PPE is a concern.

Our health editor, Hugh Pym, has more details.

One care homes response to equipment shortages.

Thes air the supplies that we have up in head office.

While supplies are still coming in, they're hard to get.

And staff who look after residents with covitz symptoms fear they may run out.

We are putting not just our residents at risk, but also our staff on.

That makes us feel awful, and it keeps us up at night.

In recent weeks, she worked on Cove in 19 wards and died with the virus on Easter Monday.

She'd told her family she thought her protective equipment was not the best before, like they should protect those in the front lines because they're kind of sending them over there naked without the proper protection.

Then more things like this and more families will lose a loved one.

The trust where she worked said they had implemented national guidance on protective equipment for hospitals, specialist gowns and mosques used in intensive care in short supply.

Some, though not this one, said they're down to only a day or so of stocks usually staffed.

But the guidance has been changed, said they're allowed toe, wash and reuse the guns, front line staff.

We want to treat patients, and we never expected that.

We've been putting our own health at risk by doing that.

And not knowing whether you're going to be able to protect yourself is a worry that we shouldn't have tohave One Trust in Lincolnshire, made up of three major hospitals, has revealed how much protective equipment known as PP they use in a single Day 39 a half 1000 Surgical masks nearly 11.5 1000 gloves around 1500 gowns on about 4200 specialist F F P three mosques, including other items.

For just one day, I raised the concerns about shortages in some areas of the Downing Street media briefing.

Are you ashamed as a government that there are some NHS staff going into work?

You say they're worried about their safety because they fear their hospitals might run out of people?

Absolutely everybody work incredibly hard on the front line, deserves to have the equipment they need to go to do their job safely on were working around the clock to make sure that we can deliver on that off.

A 1,000,000,000 pieces of people have delivered, I think 12 million yesterday on as you heard from me, we're improving our sourcing internationally and domestically to make sure we can get the PP we need.

But in what is a very challenging international context, the chancellor said there were delays with the planned Turkish consignment of PP but a shipment of gowns from Myanmar had arrived with the new temporary NHS hospital in Glasgow ready to take patients.

The Scottish government said it was working at pace to improve.

The supply of PPE on the opening ceremony was held at Cardiff's new facility of the Principality stadium, with room for up to 2000 cove in 19 patients.

In a rare public statement, the Duke of Edinburgh said he wanted to thank all key workers on recognize the vital and urgent medical and scientific work taking place.

Tributes have been paid to Dr Manjeet Singh, Reat on emergency medicine consultant at Royal Darby Hospital, who died after contracting the virus was more uplifting.

News at East Sussex Trust A staff gave one of their own a round of applause today.

A nurse who was leaving critical care keep in BBC news well.

The government's declared deadline to be testing 100,000 people a day for Corona virus is less than two weeks away, and some experts say it's almost impossible to see that target being met now on.

It's confirmed that yesterday just 19,316 tests were carried out across the UK, now in Cardiff.

The Welsh government has now abandoned its target on testing after failing to come close to the 5000 day figure set for mid April.

The first minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, says there were problems with sourcing chemicals from abroad, but there are also hundreds of unused testing spaces every day.

The most government has called on military planners to review its testing system, but a new target will not apparently be set.

So let's talk about our health editor, Hugh Pym, who joins us once again when when they say today in Downing Street you that the numbers of new cases are flat and stable.

Are they in effect saying that we've passed the peak?

I think you they are saying we are at the peak on the likely direction.

No, for all the indicators is downwards that new cases new infections has been flat for a little wild a little while.

No, now, the daily reported death toll, tragic though it is, is the lowest in two weeks below 500.

Now, let's remember that is largely hospital deaths.

And of course, it follows a weekend when the may have been fewer registrations, so we need to watch the next few days, and then there are the data on patient numbers in hospitals with Cove in 19 on That shot was shown at the media briefing today, So let's take a look at that and that's very important.

You see London there, that line that's been falling for seven days.

Known, of course, London lead the rest of the UK in terms of the number of cases.

The Northwest, having gone up a bit, has now flattened Scotland.

The east of England is the only one we've picked a few here from around the UK, the only one that's pointing upwards.

So the ankle, this is seen as very positive.

They need a bit more time to assess the data, but they certainly don't want to give the impression to the public that the lockdowns about to be lifted.

They're worried largely about the wrong signals being put out and also worried about the possibility of a second spike sometime later in the year.

 Okay, he once again, that's very much Hugh Pym. 