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| UK coronavirus live: doctors confirm lack of PPE amid fears supplies may run out this weekend | UK coronavirus live: doctors confirm lack of PPE amid fears supplies may run out this weekend |
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| Surveys reveal medics’ concerns about pressures to work without protection. Follow this and all the day’s developments in the UK’s Covid-19 crisis | Surveys reveal medics’ concerns about pressures to work without protection. Follow this and all the day’s developments in the UK’s Covid-19 crisis |
| This is from the foreign secretary (or rather, his son). | |
| The government’s programme to release up to 4,000 low-risk prisoners early to help jails cope with coronavirus has been paused after six inmates were freed by mistake. | |
| The inmates were candidates for early release but were let out too soon because of an “administrative error”, the Ministry of Justice said. After the flaw was spotted, they all “returned compliantly to prison”, a spokeswoman added. | |
| The scheme, designed to avoid thousands of often cell-sharing inmates becoming infected, was paused on Thursday and is due to resume next week. | |
| Coronavirus cases have been confirmed in half of the prisons in England and Wales. A total of 255 prisoners had tested positive for Covid-19 in 62 jails as of 5pm on Thursday, the MoJ said, and 13 inmates had died. | |
| Some 138 prison staff have also contracted the virus in 49 prisons, as well as seven prisoner escort and custody services staff. And 700 staff have been tested and 6,268 are self-isolating, according to the latest available figures. | |
| The inmates were let out of two open category D prisons in Gloucestershire and Derbyshire, Leyhill and Sudbury, along with one inmate from the Isis category C prison and young offenders institute in south-east London. | |
| The shadow justice secretary David Lammy said the error was “deeply troubling” and called for it to be “quickly understood and remedied”. | |
| The culture secretary Oliver Dowden has asked the public to “add one small thing” to their to-do list and buy a newspaper as the press grapples “with the biggest existential crisis in its history”. | The culture secretary Oliver Dowden has asked the public to “add one small thing” to their to-do list and buy a newspaper as the press grapples “with the biggest existential crisis in its history”. |
| The newspaper business has come under increasing strain amid the coronavirus pandemic, with falling advertising revenue and declining circulation. | The newspaper business has come under increasing strain amid the coronavirus pandemic, with falling advertising revenue and declining circulation. |
| Two of the UK’s biggest publishers have cut wages for staff in the latest round of measures to mitigate the impact of the crisis. The Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), which owns the Mail, Metro and the i newspaper titles, has imposed a pay cut on all staff earning over 40,000 a year. And Reach, owner of the Mirror and Express papers, said all staff will see a pay cut of at least 10% due to heavy falls in advertising and circulation. | Two of the UK’s biggest publishers have cut wages for staff in the latest round of measures to mitigate the impact of the crisis. The Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), which owns the Mail, Metro and the i newspaper titles, has imposed a pay cut on all staff earning over 40,000 a year. And Reach, owner of the Mirror and Express papers, said all staff will see a pay cut of at least 10% due to heavy falls in advertising and circulation. |
| Dowden has also instructed brands including Sky, Amazon and Tesco to end “ad-blocking” on online news articles about the pandemic and allow their adverts to appear next to coronavirus news stories. | Dowden has also instructed brands including Sky, Amazon and Tesco to end “ad-blocking” on online news articles about the pandemic and allow their adverts to appear next to coronavirus news stories. |
| The Times (paywall) has the story. | The Times (paywall) has the story. |
| Human trials of a potential vaccine have begun at Oxford University and trials could be completed by mid-August, Prof John Bell told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this morning. | |
| Bell, who is a member of the government’s vaccine taskforce, said the possibility of a vaccine being produced by the autumn depended on efficacy. He said: | |
| He said it would be “game on” if they were to see evidence of a strong immune response by the middle or end of May, with the possibility of getting “across the finish line” by mid-August. However, there would then be the challenge of manufacturing at scale the billions of doses needed. | He said it would be “game on” if they were to see evidence of a strong immune response by the middle or end of May, with the possibility of getting “across the finish line” by mid-August. However, there would then be the challenge of manufacturing at scale the billions of doses needed. |
| The push to develop a vaccine quickly was based on scientists wanting to test it on current cases, Bell added. He said: | |
| Good morning everybody. Thousands of doctors and nurses are concerned about inadequate supplies of personal protection equipment (PPE) amid fears some hospitals could run out entirely this weekend. | Good morning everybody. Thousands of doctors and nurses are concerned about inadequate supplies of personal protection equipment (PPE) amid fears some hospitals could run out entirely this weekend. |
| A British Medical Association survey of more than 6,000 doctors across the country said a significant amount of them remain without the protection they need to guard against Covid-19. Meanwhile another survey by the Royal College of Nursing found half of nurses have felt pressure to work without appropriate protective equipment during the crisis. | A British Medical Association survey of more than 6,000 doctors across the country said a significant amount of them remain without the protection they need to guard against Covid-19. Meanwhile another survey by the Royal College of Nursing found half of nurses have felt pressure to work without appropriate protective equipment during the crisis. |
| It comes after it was revealed that doctors and nurses in England will be asked to work without full-length gowns and to reuse items when treating patients with coronavirus ahead of expected shortages of protective garments, prompting outrage from unions. | It comes after it was revealed that doctors and nurses in England will be asked to work without full-length gowns and to reuse items when treating patients with coronavirus ahead of expected shortages of protective garments, prompting outrage from unions. |
| The story, from our health editor Denis Campbell, is on the Guardian’s front page today. The U-turn on Public Health England guidelines saw doctors and nurses told to work without full-length protective gowns – and to use flimsy plastic aprons instead – when treating patients with Covid-19, as hospitals came within hours of running out of supplies. The full story is here. | The story, from our health editor Denis Campbell, is on the Guardian’s front page today. The U-turn on Public Health England guidelines saw doctors and nurses told to work without full-length protective gowns – and to use flimsy plastic aprons instead – when treating patients with Covid-19, as hospitals came within hours of running out of supplies. The full story is here. |
| On Friday, the health secretary Matt Hancock told the Commons health committee that he would “love to be able to wave a magic wand” to increase PPE supplies. He said the equipment was a “precious resource” and that maintaining supplies was challenging due to the very high global demand. | On Friday, the health secretary Matt Hancock told the Commons health committee that he would “love to be able to wave a magic wand” to increase PPE supplies. He said the equipment was a “precious resource” and that maintaining supplies was challenging due to the very high global demand. |
| At least 50 NHS workers have now died after contracting the virus. Here are some of their stories. | At least 50 NHS workers have now died after contracting the virus. Here are some of their stories. |
| We’ll be bringing you all the latest UK coronavirus developments as the day unfolds. As ever, if you’d like to get in touch with a story, comments, tips or suggestions, please feel free to email me at lucy.campbell@theguardian.com or message me on Twitter, I’m on @lucy_campbell_. | We’ll be bringing you all the latest UK coronavirus developments as the day unfolds. As ever, if you’d like to get in touch with a story, comments, tips or suggestions, please feel free to email me at lucy.campbell@theguardian.com or message me on Twitter, I’m on @lucy_campbell_. |