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| Coronavirus UK live: Lockdown could shrink GDP by 35% and see unemployment rise by 2m, says OBR | Coronavirus UK live: Lockdown could shrink GDP by 35% and see unemployment rise by 2m, says OBR |
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| Coronavirus lockdown in the UK could last at least another month, as Dominic Raab says country has not passed the peak | Coronavirus lockdown in the UK could last at least another month, as Dominic Raab says country has not passed the peak |
| A further 744 people have died in hospital in England in the last 24 hours, bringing the total deaths in hospital in England to 11,005. | |
| Patients were aged between 34 and 102 years old. 58 of the 744 patients (aged between 38 and 96 years old) had no known underlying health condition. | |
| The first UK-built ventilators backed by a consortium of leading manufacturers have been delivered to hospitals over the weekend, with another device now in final clinical trials, the PA Media reports: | |
| It is understood a number of ParaPac devices, made by Smiths Medical - whose production lines have been boosted by the involvement of The Ventilator Challenge UK (TVUK) group - were sent to wards across the UK in the last few days. | |
| Production of the model, which was already being built before the Covid-19 outbreak, was scaled up by the involvement of the consortium, which includes Formula One racing teams Mercedes, McLaren and Williams. | |
| The group, which also involves Rolls-Royce, Airbus, and BAE Systems, has also put its manufacturing and design muscle behind improving another ventilator, made by Oxfordshire-based Penlon, which is now in the “final stage” of regulatory approval, according to the Cabinet Office. | |
| A separate machine being designed and built from scratch by Dyson was also being considered by the government, which had ordered 10,000 units. | |
| It comes as the government scrapped plans to buy a fourth device called BlueSky, which was created by another consortium also involving Formula One teams. | |
| A Cabinet Office spokesman said: | |
| As yet, none of the new-build ventilators have received approval by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), although the Penlon-made device, now in clinical trials, appears to be leading its peers. | |
| More on ventilators from my colleague Rob Davies here: | |
| And here again is The Guardian’s front page today, which reveals how the UK missed three chances to join EU scheme to bulk-buy PPE and ventilators | |
| Responding to questions about the take up of the coronavirus business loan scheme, the chancellor Rishi Sunak said banks were working through a backlog after overwhelming demand. | |
| Sunak added: | |
| An NHS boss has said a new Nightingale Hospital being built innorth-east England will not need to open if people maintain social distancing rules, PA Media reports. | |
| Workers have transformed an empty unit close to the Nissan car plant into a 460-bed facility which could be ready to take patients at the end of the month.But the Nightingale Hospital in Washington, Tyne and Wear, will only open to patients if hospitals in the north-east are unable to cope with the influx of coronavirus patients. | |
| Martin Wilson, chief operating officer for Newcastle hospitals NHS foundation trust, which is overseeing the project, said he does not think that will happen.He said: | |
| The brand new unit is owned by Sunderland council and was due to be used by Newcastle and Sunderland Universities as an innovation centre, focusing on the future of manufacturing including electric cars.The main hall where the beds will be located measures more than 9,000 square metres – a standard football pitch is 7,140 sq metres.Six other NHS Nightingale Hospitals have been announced so far - in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Harrogate and Exeter. | |
| The Welsh health minister, Vaughan Gething, has expressed frustration that not all the Covid-19 tests it has made available are being taken up, writes Steven Morris. | |
| A drive-through testing centre in Cardiff did not open on Monday but Gething said this was because there were not enough referrals of frontline staff for it to operate. | |
| Gething said: “We need to do much more to maximise the capacity that exists and it’s really frustrating for me that we haven’t maximised that capacity. Every part of the system needs to refer their frontline staff. | |
| “If I was a social care worker or frontline health worker sat at home self-isolating I’d be deeply frustrated to know there is capacity I can’t make use of.” | |
| Gething said that there have been confirmed Covid-19 cases in 75 of the 1,073 care homes in Wales. There have been another 217 suspected cases. | |
| The minister denied that Wales was being “gazumped” by England when it came to sourcing PPE equipment and ventilators. | |
| He said orders from England were “helping crowd out” the global market but argued that the best way for Wales to make sure it had what it needed was to be part of a UK-wide procurement system. | |
| Gething added: “If we want to go it alone, then we are a relatively small country in a global market that is tightening and getting more expensive.” | |
| A care home nurse from Birmingham who died after contracting coronavirus was ‘loving and dedicated to helping people’, reports the Birmingham Mail. | A care home nurse from Birmingham who died after contracting coronavirus was ‘loving and dedicated to helping people’, reports the Birmingham Mail. |
| Elsie Sazuze, 44, fell ill at home before being taken to Good Hope hospital in Sutton Coldfield where she sadly died on Wednesday 8 April. | |
| The mother-of-two leaves behind husband Ken, son Andrew, 22 and daughter Anna, aged 16. | The mother-of-two leaves behind husband Ken, son Andrew, 22 and daughter Anna, aged 16. |
| Her childhood friend William Fungatira has today paid tribute as he released an album of pictures on behalf of her family. | Her childhood friend William Fungatira has today paid tribute as he released an album of pictures on behalf of her family. |
| He said: | He said: |
| In her lunchtime briefing, Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon addressed reports that private firms were prioritising the NHS in England for PPE delivery, with supplies destined for Scottish care homes being diverted to England. While earlier this morning the Scottish government’s national clinical director dismissed the reports as “rubbish”, Sturgeon appeared to take them far more seriously, describing it as “unconscionable” if the case. | In her lunchtime briefing, Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon addressed reports that private firms were prioritising the NHS in England for PPE delivery, with supplies destined for Scottish care homes being diverted to England. While earlier this morning the Scottish government’s national clinical director dismissed the reports as “rubbish”, Sturgeon appeared to take them far more seriously, describing it as “unconscionable” if the case. |
| Sturgeon said that she was not currently aware of any such issue affecting national supplies, but that it would be “completely unacceptable” if it was causing problems for individual organisations. She added that the Scottish health secretary, Jeane Freeman, would be seeking clarification on this from her UK counterpart, Matt Hancock, later today. | |
| As the press conference went on, Freeman revealed that Hancock had cancelled the call but emphasised how seriously she was taking the reports, and said that she would now be writing to the UK health secretary for urgent clarification. | As the press conference went on, Freeman revealed that Hancock had cancelled the call but emphasised how seriously she was taking the reports, and said that she would now be writing to the UK health secretary for urgent clarification. |
| Responding to the OBR’s coronavirus economic scenario, the chancellor Rishi Sunak said it was important “to be honest about the hardship ahead” and that it was clear the lockdown would have a very significant impact on the economy. | Responding to the OBR’s coronavirus economic scenario, the chancellor Rishi Sunak said it was important “to be honest about the hardship ahead” and that it was clear the lockdown would have a very significant impact on the economy. |
| Reiterating that the government could not protect every job and business, he told reporters: | Reiterating that the government could not protect every job and business, he told reporters: |
| He said defeating the virus was “not a choice between health and economics – that defies common sense”. | He said defeating the virus was “not a choice between health and economics – that defies common sense”. |
| Asked about the “woefully low” number of businesses who have so far managed to access funds from the government loan scheme, Sunak said banks had been working through the backlog over the Easter bank holiday weekend and the numbers should “tick up considerably into the thousands this week”. He added that acceptance rates were “reasonably high”. | Asked about the “woefully low” number of businesses who have so far managed to access funds from the government loan scheme, Sunak said banks had been working through the backlog over the Easter bank holiday weekend and the numbers should “tick up considerably into the thousands this week”. He added that acceptance rates were “reasonably high”. |
| Following the OBR’s publication of coronavirus economic scenarios, the SNP has called on the government to deliver comprehensive financial support to ensure “no one is left behind”. | Following the OBR’s publication of coronavirus economic scenarios, the SNP has called on the government to deliver comprehensive financial support to ensure “no one is left behind”. |
| The SNP’s leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, underlined the need for the UK government to fix the serious gaps in the support being offered to millions of people who have lost their jobs or seen their incomes reduced. | The SNP’s leader in Westminster, Ian Blackford, underlined the need for the UK government to fix the serious gaps in the support being offered to millions of people who have lost their jobs or seen their incomes reduced. |
| He renewed calls for a guaranteed minimum income and warned the UK government against lifting the lockdown too early saying “protecting lives must be the priority”. He said: | He renewed calls for a guaranteed minimum income and warned the UK government against lifting the lockdown too early saying “protecting lives must be the priority”. He said: |
| Nicola Sturgeon has announced Tuesday’s daily figures for Covid-19: a further 291 positive cases, taking the total to 6358, and a further 40 deaths, taking that total to 615. | Nicola Sturgeon has announced Tuesday’s daily figures for Covid-19: a further 291 positive cases, taking the total to 6358, and a further 40 deaths, taking that total to 615. |
| She added that there was likely to be a lag in figures because of under-reporting over the Easter weekend. | She added that there was likely to be a lag in figures because of under-reporting over the Easter weekend. |
| She said that we should not read too much into the fact that there were 15 fewer people with a positive diagnosis in intensive care. | She said that we should not read too much into the fact that there were 15 fewer people with a positive diagnosis in intensive care. |
| Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald TD has confirmed that on Monday she received a positive diagnosis for Covid-19, having been tested on 28 March. She confirmed that she was no longer infectious and after weeks of feeling really unwell, expressed “great relief” at recovering from the illness.In a statement she thanked everyone who has sent their good wishes over the past number of weeks and said she hopes to be back at work next Monday. She said: | Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald TD has confirmed that on Monday she received a positive diagnosis for Covid-19, having been tested on 28 March. She confirmed that she was no longer infectious and after weeks of feeling really unwell, expressed “great relief” at recovering from the illness.In a statement she thanked everyone who has sent their good wishes over the past number of weeks and said she hopes to be back at work next Monday. She said: |