The first batch of British-made ventilators to treat coronavirus patients will be rolled out to the NHS next week, Michael Gove has said.
"It is really important not to read too much because it is really early days," he cautioned at the daily Downing Street briefing."We are not out of the woods, we are very much in the woods.
"So green shoots but only green shoots and we must not be complacent and we must not take our foot off the pedal."Some 10,767 people are currently in hospital with coronavirus in England, with 3,915 of those in London and 1,918 in the Midlands, where hospital admissions are accelerating. Prof Powis said the overall signs were that the"Great British public" were heeding social distancing advice and reducing contact.England's deputy chief medical officer also apologised at the briefing for saying the government had sorted a problem repeatedly raised by medics about a lack of Personal Protective Equipment [PPE], such as masks and gloves.
Dr Jenny Harries said:"I have to admit, I stood here about 10 days ago and said - very probably optimistically in the past - 'we've solved the PPE position'."The distribution element has been a bit tricky at times."
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