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Many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time.
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Many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time.
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It might be two weeks time,
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it might be four months time,
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it might be 12 months time, who knows?
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How on earth did it come to this?
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The coronavirus pandemic started in China,
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spread to Europe and had reached the UK by the end of January.
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First off, the government's strategy was to try to contain the virus.
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It set up quarantine centres for people coming back from mainland China.
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It traced the contacts of infected people and advised all of us to wash our hands.
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On 6 February, another case of coronavirus was identified.
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And by the end of February,
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the total number of confirmed cases in the UK had reached 23.
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The virus had begun to spread within the country.
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It was a bit unusual to see that Hazelmere could be the first place that it's been transmitted without an obvious cause.
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Contain, delay, research, mitigate.
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Wash your hands with soap and hot water for the length of time it takes to sing Happy Birthday twice.
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Whatever extra resources our NHS needs to cope with coronavirus, it will get.
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Many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time.
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We need people to start working from home where they possibly can.
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And you should avoid pubs,
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clubs, theatres and other such social venues.
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Just six days after the Chancellor pledged £12 billion to fund the coronavirus response,
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he was back, this time with £350 billion.
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This national effort will be underpinned by government interventions in the economy on a scale unimaginable only a few weeks ago.
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If we can get this down to numbers 20,000 and below,
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that's a good outcome.
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This was really the first time that a government figure had publicly come out
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and put a number on what the UK could expect.
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And while every single death is an individual tragedy and all the pain that causes,
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that's why this particular number of 20,000 has become such a marker.
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And it was the first indication,
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really, of what was to come.
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We are collectively telling, telling cafes,
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pubs, bars and restaurants to close.
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It might be two weeks time,
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it might be four months time,
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it might be twelve months time, who knows, nobody knows.
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We're paying people's wages up to 80% so someone can be furloughed rather than laid off to protect their jobs.
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This is when we need the government the most.
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I'm sorry.
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I urge you, at this moment of national emergency,
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to stay at home, protect our NHS and save lives.
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I've developed mild symptoms of the coronavirus.
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I am now setting the goal of 100,000 tests per day by the end of this month.
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The 100,000 number itself wasn't picked by scientists,
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it was a political target set by the health secretary to try to kickstart a big expansion in testing,
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and that became important later.
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He remains stable overnight.
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He's receiving standard oxygen treatment and breathing without any assistance.
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Of those who've contracted the virus, 10,612 have tragically died.
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It's unbelievable that people would be so kind.
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20,319 have died.
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The number of deaths in hospitals were being recorded,
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but there were serious concerns about what was happening in care homes.
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Political pressure increased to try and record how many people were dying there too.
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We have recorded an additional 3,811 deaths in total.
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I can confirm today that for the first time we are past the peak of this disease.
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I can announce that we have met our goal.
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The number of tests yesterday,
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on the last day of April, was 122,347.
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There is some controversy about those figures though,
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and that's because 40,000 of those tests were home testing kits that were sent out but hadn't yet been completed and returned,
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and the number of tests did fall in the following days.
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But it did unquestionably mark a big expansion in the UK's ability to test.
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And pretty much everyone agrees that that is going to be crucial in moving the country out of lockdown measures.
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By the 6th of May,
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more than 30,000 people had died with coronavirus in the UK.
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And while we're past the peak,
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that number is still going up.
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That's now the highest number in Europe.
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It's the second highest in the world.
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That's not success or apparent success.
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So can the Prime Minister tell us how on earth did it come to this?
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What I can tell him is that at every stage as we took the decisions that we did,
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we were governed by one overriding principle and aim,
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and that was to save lives and to protect our NHS.
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One issue that has kept coming up is the supply of personal protective equipment to frontline workers.
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Now the government says it's put more than a billion bits of kit into the system,
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and there is a global supply issue.
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But doctors, nurses and care workers say there still isn't enough.
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PPE is going to be vital as lockdown restrictions ease.
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