Name: Coronavirus: UK death toll passes 100 - BBC News
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Let's talk to our health correspondent Richard Galpin.

We've had a breakdown of where, but the bottom line is the deaths in the last 24 hours taking off significantly.

Yeah, there's basically being about a 30% increase.

It's gone up from Sorry is going up to 104 now all of those in the UK 99 off them.

Say it's gone up by about 1/3 on We've heard of the last few days of the worried this this climb in this this pandemic And this is this looks to be what we're entering that Yeah, that's right.

We had this warning, actually, from the expert advisers saying that that we are approaching that steep curve when the rate of infection will go up very rapidly.

So it looks like, you know, from the jump we've just seen now that that process is gradually beginning.

How different countries that handling this differently.

And one of the issues which has been raised in recent days has been that of testing.

Now Boris Johnson promises questions saying that the government is prioritizing testing for NHS staff of the B M.

A has contradicted that says there's not the experience on the front line.

The issue of testing and testing kits is very much of the full.

And we've had this announcement today that they are really ramping up testing.

It had Bean about the level of about 5000 people being tested per day.

They wanted to go up to 25,000 within the next four weeks, so that's a really big increase.

People who are already well already have bean in hospital.

It's not clear, actually, from what we've seen so far as to whether NHS staff will be included in that.

It didn't seem to be from the announcement and obviously that in many ways is quite surprising.

There's some talk of it about NHS staff being the next ones to be getting the testing, but obviously it's absolutely vital for the NHS staff to know on.

Obviously you know who can work and who cannot work abroad.

Plan to boost testing capacity to 25,000 per day in England.

A lot of people who are ringing 111 on self isolating, will not know if they've actually had Corona virus and there is a frustration being expressed.

Certainly, I'm hearing that, Yeah, I mean, that's the problem.

The fact that there hasn't been this ramp up in the testing until now means that there's a lot of people who will not have known whether they've had a Corona virus or not, and obviously all the statistics for the government to be able to track the disease.

That's so much, obviously, by doing this massive testing program, presumably they will then have much more data built to track the disease more closely.

 As we enter this critical phase, Richard, thank you for your help in our health, correspond. 

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