The Corona crisis in Great Britain is getting worse. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is under increasing pressure. The current news ticker.
Update from April 3, 2:45 p.m .: Because of the Corona crisis and the associated lower air traffic London Heathrow Airport will close one of its two runways on Monday. The measure is about increasing resilience and security for employees, passengers and cargo during the Covid 19 outbreak, a spokesman for Europe’s largest airport said late Thursday evening, according to a report by the PA news agency. The two runways would be used alternately weekly from Monday.
Even if there are significantly fewer flights worldwide, the The airport remains opensaid the spokesman. It could continue to play an essential role in providing vital medical supplies and food for the country during this unprecedented pandemic.
Corona crisis in Great Britain: Heathrow and British Airways have responded to the corona crisis
In addition to those responsible for Heathrows Airport, the Airline company British Airways responded to the effects of the corona crisis. The airline now temporarily releases 28,000 employees. This corresponds to 60 percent of the entire workforce, the union Unite announced on Thursday. However, there should not be any layoffs.
Airline and union agreed on one, according to Unite UK Government Corona Assistance Program Make use of the guarantee that 80 percent of salaries are paid to the employees who are released In addition, Unite announced that there would be no agreement on monthly salary caps, unpaid leave and layoffs during the crisis. The agreement has yet to be approved by British Airways union members.
Update from April 2, 9 p.m .: Due to the increase in Corona infections* the UK government has announced that Test capacities to increase. The number of daily tests is expected to increase by the end of the month 100,000 a day increase. Britain’s Minister of Health Matt Hancock announced this on Thursday in London at a press conference. All types of tests are included in the number.
UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock says he wants to introduce “100,000 tests per day by the end of this month”
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– BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) April 2, 2020
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Corona in England: lack of tests to be remedied – over 500 deaths in one day
The announced test offensive in London, however, was with the journalists skeptical since current efforts have so far been slow. Great Britain is far behind other countries in the number of tests. In the country as a whole, around Thursday 163,000 People on that Corona virus* tested. Around 918,000 tests have been carried out in Germany so far last week. Hancock himself had dealt with the novel virus infected and had come out into the public eye for the first time at that press conference.
The United Kingdom saw an increase in deaths from Covid-19 2921, on Thursday the increase was around 569 dead registered. Scarce 34,000 People have been tested positive for the virus so far, actual numbers may be higher due to the lack of tests.
Corona crisis in Great Britain: severe criticism of Johnson
First report from April 2: Great Britain Prime Minister Boris Johnson gets into dealing with the coronaCrisis increasingly under pressure. Critics accuse the British government, among other things, that far too little corona–Testing be made and still thousands Ventilators for theCovid-19* Lung patients are missing. In the British media, Johnson’s government is getting heavy strategy–defects accused.
Corona in England: Boris Johnson is under massive pressure
According to this, for example, of 550,000 employees of the state health service NHS (National Health Service) just 2000 on the coronaPathogen has been tested. The statistics on the Testing* are a humiliation for government officials, media commented. Professor Paul Cosford, emeritus medical director for public health in England, criticized the BBC on Thursday: “Everyone involved is frustrated.” Johnson said on Wednesday night in a video message via Twitter that the number of tests needed to be massively increased.
Here’s an update to bring you up to speed on some of the things that we are doing to protect our NHS.
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– Boris Johnson #StayHomeSaveLives (@BorisJohnson) April 1, 2020
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The government’s announcements and reality are also far apart when it comes to procuring ventilators. The order for several thousand devices was actually announced. A BBC spokeswoman is now clearly surprised to read a government announcement that a consortium of companies had produced 30 new devices ntv.
Coronavirus in England: doctors have to decide who is ventilated
Clinicians have now too instructions receiveto decide in the future given the scarce resources at which patients are worth using a ventilator – and who cannot be ventilated. So doctors in England, as before, have to Italy* make the decision about life and death – a so-called triage*.
British Medical Association (BMA) ethics committee chief John Chisholm said: “Nobody wants to make such decisions, but when resources are overwhelming, those decisions have to be made.”
British media – including conservatives – consistently criticized the government’s lack of strategy on its front pages on Thursday. The newspaper The Independent was titled “Questions, but no answers”, the Times wrote about the “Chaos in Virus Test Plans” and the Daily Mail of a “test scandal”.
In Bavaria, too, the number of corona cases that open in Bavaria’s hospitals is increasing. Both in the intensive care units and overall. Siegfried Hasenbein, the managing director of the Bavarian Hospital Society (BKG), is now warning of one Lack of protective equipment*. In North Rhine-Westphalia one wants to Virologist of the dark figure* get on the trail.
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