Daily Update: 22/04/2020

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Today’s Update

  • Ministry of Defence have helped build Nightingale hospital, mobile units and the delivery of PPE
  • Providing PPE has been one of the biggest logistical tasks with the supply chain increasing from serving 223 hospital trusts to over 58,000 in different locations within a space of 25 days
  • Over 13,000 people on 63 flights have been brought home with more planned in the coming days and weeks
  • Diagnostic Labs in Milton Keynes, Glasgow and Alderley Park in Cheshire are now live and are already testing thousands of patient samples for coronavirus each day
  • UK unlikely to see a sudden drop in COVID-19 cases once the peak is passed
  • 10,000 beds available in NHS with over 3,000 available in critical care 
  • 27 drive-through test centres are open
  • UK daily testing capacity now at 40,000
  • 10,700 ventilators are available for use 
  • One billion PPE has been delivered 
  • NHS contact tracing app is currently in BETA trials

Previous Measures remain in place:

  • People should not meet with friends or family members they do not live with
  • Shopping is only permitted for essentials like food and medicine
  • Police have powers to enforce the rules, which include disbursements of gatherings and issuance of fines
  • All shops selling non-essential goods to be closed 
  • Libraries, playgrounds, outdoor gyms and places of worship remain closed
  • All gatherings of more than two people in public excluding those you live with are banned
  • All social events are banned, including weddings and baptisms, but Funerals are excluded 
  • Parks remain open for exercise, however, gatherings will be dispersed
  • These restrictions will be constantly reviewed 
  • Self- Employed will be able to claim 80% of average monthly earnings over past 3 years, capped to £2500 per month, open to those who are already self-employed with trading profits up to £50,000 a year and have a self-assessment tax return for 2019

Stay at Home.  Protect the NHS. Save Lives

For more information:

gov.uk/coronavirus

nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/