Name: Coronavirus cases in UK rise sharply - as Italy closes schools for 10 days
Uploaded: 2020-03-10T00:40:10.000Z
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This is part of the new updated public awareness campaign against covered 19 hand washing is still at the forefront of the fight against the virus.

However, the messages put across the it is becoming critical as numbers are reducing and China they're growing elsewhere today has seen the biggest leap and covered 19 cases in the U.

K so far and public health officials are, of course contact tracing.

But they have also said that at least three of the 32 new cases in England were passed on here, giving rise to fears that community transmission is now taking hold.

The four phases for dealing with this outbreak are contain.

Today, the prime minister was asked about the potential for parliament and MPs to spread the virus, and he appeared to suggest that we are about to move from contain to delay the chief medical officer in the chief scientific adviser.

Together with my friend, the health center will be saying a little bit more on this couple of days about what we're going to do to delay Theat Vance of Corona bars were still at the containment stage.

She will understand the distinction that the government is is making.

When we come to the delay phase, she will be hearing a lot more detail about what we propose to do with large gatherings in places such as Parliament.

A small study following the shall A outbreak in France has found that meals at home and and restaurants could be risky.

For example, Transition shall A in France meal In Hong Kong.

We gathered about nine of these events and tried to look at the risk and an estimated that in these situations about 35% of the contacts of the case had it subsequently become infected.

There is a lot of happen off transmission happening.

Each case, an average is probably infected two or three others.

So if you think of the average person's number of contacts that suggest there may be a fairly high risk per contact for that amount transmission to subsequently occur.

The crux of the public health message is that everyone must play their part.

This company link, oh CARE, has just received orders for one million bottles, and that's likely to increase.

In the meantime, a spot check on four pharmacies today found the shelves empty.

The chief medical officer has said that wearing them has almost no effect on reducing the risk of contracting the illness.

Today in Italy, the police raided a warehouse where masks and disinfectants of being sold online at hugely marked up prices, making money in the face of a disaster.

They've had more than 3000 cases, and today they announced that schools across the country will be closed until March the 15th.

So okay, I know this decision will have an impact.

As schools minister, I hope pupils can return to school as soon as possible.

On my commitment is to ensure that the essential public service orbit from the distance is provided to all our students.

It's a measure other countries have also taken, but one the U.

K government has so far resisted, experts say, their social consequences parents not being able to work, for instance, and it is still not clear how the virus is affecting the young Victoria McDonald reporting well, Italy.

I spoke to Dr Bruce Elbert from the World Health Organization.

You recently returned from China, where he collared the W H O mission on covered 19.

I started by asking him about Italy's decision to close universities in schools in response to the virus.

Frankly, they may know more than we're seeing in the news on dhe.

They may have concerns that are are causing them to move that way.

Generally, what you want to be doing, though, is looking at what are the drivers of transmission in your community?

Where are people getting infected and how and that should then drive what you're doing.

But there are many factors that affect the decisions to to to close schools.

Do you think that we should be thinking about closing schools in this country where the rate of infects, while the number of infections seems to be a lot lower than it is in Italy?

Well, I think what you want to be thinking about is, Are you doing the basics and then the graduate things up, Matt.

So the first thing does the whole population of, you know, the UK Do they understand what they're looking for?

Are they doing all those preventive measures?

Is that rapid case isolation or identification piece in place and the ability to find the coast contacts and quarantine them et cetera, And then as you move up through those, then you start looking at okay, Do we need to suspend large gatherings because of the weight this virus is moving?

It doesn't seem like like you're there yet your boss, the head of the W.

J, put out a mortality rate number yesterday that had us all gasping frankly, 3.4% mortality rate for those infected, which is quite a lot higher than the 1% that we were kind of dealing with roughly beforehand explained that number to us and why he's now made that public.

Well, when you look at the numbers in China, there's different numbers, right?

And I think one of the things that worried the Director General was that people were cherry picking the lowest possible numbers and they were They were underestimating what this disease could actually do.

That's if you take from the beginning of the outbreak, including Wuhan in the area's worst hit right through to today and all of China, the number is over is over three on DDE.

What people often do is they just look at those provinces outside of Julia and and where Wuhan is and they calculate from once people really knew what they were doing and they say Okay, at that point it was down around 1% or under 1%.

But you know, what the director general was highlighting was, if you don't get on this fast, if you don't know what you're doing, if you're not taking care of your older population properly, this is going to have worse mortality than you're expecting.

Okay, So when you went to China, what did you discover there?

That should become a lesson to all of us all over the world.

I think the critical things that China did well where first of all the population knew what it was looking for it they knew what this disease was.

They knew where to go to get tested, and they could be isolated and taken care of very, very quickly.

You weren't waiting for it to walk into hospitals and infect the hospitals.

They had a very well in foreign population.

Then they had planned the capacity to be able to isolate these debate cases, and they planned the capacity be able to find the coast contacts, quarantine them, and then take care of them for the 14 days in which 5 to 10% of them would become cases on big take wings are those.

And what worries me, Always mad as everyone starts with, we can't do a China did.

They said, Well, we can't locked out a whole city Nice.

There thousands and thousands of cities, they locked down a few, which where it had really gotten out of control.

Well, I mean, they locked down effectively 60 million people, which is virtually the whole population of the UK.

Can you seriously imagine this government doing something similar in a country like ours.

I would be seriously surprised and frankly disappointed if the country ever got into a situation where they even have to contemplate that.

And the great thing you're seeing Matt, is that, you know, remember this.

Whether or not you get in a situation like China's.

It's a function of how you respond and what you're seeing as a result of the work of public health thing than the any chess, et cetera.

Is there fighting these cases fast jumping on the transmission chains?

That situation should ever have to even contemplate it.

There's a big debate about closing down schools, and, of course, the Italians, you know, said they would imminently do.

What's the point of closing down schools of kids, according to the evidence?

We actually don't know what happens with Children in this disease.

It appears that they're less likely to get infected.

It appears that the less likely to get a sick.

But a lot of that may be an artifact of the fact that this happened in China at the start of the Spring Festival because, remember the Spring Festival in China, all the schools are closed for two weeks, and then they extended them.

So we don't really know what would have happened if Children were exposed to big doses of this thing in school environment.

But would they have carried the virus back to their families and caused more outbreaks that way?

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