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Health sec will 'talk to' chancellor about more help for hospitality industry
"I get it, I understand why it's a problem. These rules have to be in place amongst the population as a whole because we've got to get a grip of this virus." And Hancock adds track and trace is much easier when cases are lower - so 61,000 new cases a week level is the"sort of scale" the contact tracing programme can"grapple with".
On the first question, the health secretary says there is a government programme in place to support people who are shielding who can't leave home.On to questions from the media. Hancock is asked if the PM changed his mind or was he worried about losing a vote on the NHS surcharge for migrant health and care workers.
If people are asked to vaccinate then"they absolutely should" as it will only be on the basis of"clinical advice". Prof Whitty says people of all faiths have to"adapt" celebrations around current social distancing rules and they"remain the same for every community".Prof Whitty says people are"rightly very concerned about" care homes, where the peak was later - up to one or two weeks - than hospitals.Prof Whitty says we're having a"winter in health terms, in terms of the mortality, but in late spring and early summer".
And ahead of the Bank Holiday weekend, he urges people to carry on social distancing, adding,"let's not go back to square one".Hancock confirms as has been done at every news conference this week the UK is at level four on the coronavirus alert scale and that because infection numbers are coming down the country can"start moving to level three".Hancock announces there were 128,340 more tests carried out yesterday.
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