Coronavirus - record UK deaths approach levels seen in Italy and Spain - BBC News 

So how many other people have died that never made it to hospital not counting them is giving false figures

If you're UK residents, learn from China, Italy, Spain, and the US. It's horrible here in the United States. You all need to STAY at HOME! This is not a joke. You're not supposed to be even walking around the neighborhood. If you need to exercise, do it at home!

This has been a monumentally bad response from the British Government given how much it could have learnt from elsewhere.

How they can say the number of cases are not “accelerating” exponentially when they’re not even testing many people?!

Boris ingauging positively with staff = chatting up the female nurses

the peoples health vs the economy is a rediculous question if there are no people there will be no economy

I am sorry, BBC but your graph at 8:52 is totally wrong. UK is at Day 25 since the country reaches 10 deaths and has now 7097 deaths IN HOSPITAL (this is important to mention). Italy, at Day 25 was at 5476, France at 4503. The UK is doing worst than a lot of other european countries not better as your graph is suggesting. And you can't put Spain and UK at the same level "D25" when Spain is actually at day 32 (and Italy at Day 42). I really don't know who edited this graph, but this is a totally wrong!

People laughed and pretend coughed at me when I was the first one to wear a mask in February Now they're copying me

With the exception of Italy who had no reliable data with which to make rapid decisions, other countries have ZERO excuses. In my opinion they put money before people. Most of them were waiting to see how it played out in Italy which was always going to take weeks and therefore be to late! They were warned by Italian authorities & initially chose not to act putting money before people and it's the people now paying the price!

people walking in parks, children riding their bikes, roads busy as usual etc this is not even the peak. It will get worse

14,000 test in a day? On April 8, in Italy we did 50,000 tests

A prayer and hope that you dont hit the horribe numbers we have in the USA at the moment good luck and stay HEALTHY my friends across the pond

Close the airports 😠😡😱😭😭

♥️UK From 🇨🇦 Good luck guys.

The situation around the globe is getting depressing day by day. News flares my anxiety even more

As opposed to engaging negatively with his doctors??

COVID +Brexit... Gonna be hard next few years.

UK is just too late. From Italy 🇮🇹

We are with you U.K. from America.

Thumbs Up if you wish Boris Johnson will get better soon! 👍

Sending our thoughts, blessings, Aroha (💙) and strength to all of our brethren in the UK from NZ/Aotearoa. And respect continues for all of the nurses and healthcare workers seeing us through this. 🌼🌻🌺

Getting that big a sendoff from ICU shows how few make it.

UK ain't on no lockdown lol

Wear masks to prevent droplets when talking. You know, it is actually believable way to reduce the risk of contracting virus. Take it seriously.

Is this nightmare ever going to end? I try to distract myself, but I find myself always going back to the news. It's so very depressing. Lockdown is pissing everyone off, but we need to stay inside. I'm at a point where I don't trust the air outside...I fear getting infected.

how's that herd immunity going?

Good job we got Boris “sitting up in bed” so we dont get bored with the hundreds dying daily

I have started reading the bible everyday, helps me on these depressing times.

Please stay safe, and wish everyone good health. I live in Southern California in the USA, and we have been lockdown for almost a month. Thank God, my State is flatting the curve!

With the majority of my biological family and many friends in the UK, My heart and prayers are with the entire country. Please be safe as the numbers seem way to high for the size of England. It seemed like the UK was doing very well but it's worse that I thought. Keep safe & stay in please.

It boggles the mind that money could even be considered over human life. I’d rather go into a depression before I’d let 1 person die so I could return to work.

It would be foolhardy to relax the rules.

Let's be honest I'm proud to be British but our country and peoples actions lately have been something that will go down in history.. disgraceful.

And the sun rises again and again! Not just for Americans and English, for everyone!

Thankfully we have the internet and FaceTime. This would have been a lot more difficult without these things...

3:33 The man in the background wearing those bunny rabbit ears looks like he's about to kill someone!!! 😲😳🥺

We need to join hands in 🙏 prayer . God bless UK

BBC News all day: What about Boris? How is Boris??? Boris is feeling better, he’s sitting up in bed, laughing and joking with nurses. Small footnote: 938 people die in the UK in one day (in case anyone missed it).

Is a hydraulic hospital bed technically sitting?

I am writing from Quebec (Canada) and we have to stay inside since 3 weeks. From the start schools, shopping centres where closed followed by a closure of all business excluding essentiel services (food, Pharmacy’s, liquor liquor stores). Social distancing is also part of the game. Our Prime Minister (Canada is a Federation of Provinces) appears daily with the Health Minister and Chief Medical Officer. No sugar coating. He garners 85% approval rating. Basic rules are followed by our population: Stay at home, go out and maintain a 6 ft social distancing. Up to now our national healthcare has no been overwhelmed up to now. As of yesterday medical and nursing personnel where able to be redirected to work in homes and other care facilities for the elderly. Stats today show that 90% of deaths come from these sectors. Basically 60 and up, with the hot spot around 80 years old. Stocks of medical equipment are a problem. Trump backtracked is edict to stop export of these to Canada. Talks at the Ministerial have turned this around. Canada fournis most of the material (specialized paper from the pulp and paper of a specific tree), some gowns. We also have Dr’s and nurses (approx. 1,000) who live in Canada working in Detroit Michigan which is part of a hot zone. Canadians, even if is a small country when compared to the US has not envisaged an embargo. I think that heads of States with yellow or orange hair are dangerous. I am not a reporter facts at a Federal level can be checked with CBC ( anglophone portion of our National broadcasting system, and Ici Radio-Canada for everything coming out of Quebec (Francophone national broadcaster). Stay home is our motto. The Federal government is rolling out new measures to protect workers and businesses with fine tuning weekly. With both Provincial and Federal support the population hope that covid 19 will peak at the end of the month. Time will tell. Regards, Michel (and sorry in advance for any grammatical errors).

Drs. sitting close, no masks wtf?

We are behind Italy and Spain remember so it's expected to see the same amount of people dying now

5:14 : Does he mean "we're about to see their capacity increase exponentially" ? I've seen this said about a change in quantity before where I wouldn't expect exponential growth. Does he mean "increase a surprising amount" ? Or actual exponential growth, ie, as each production line becomes practised, staff splinter to set up new production lines with more new staff, and so forth? He's a professor and Government adviser on testing capacity so I suppose he's not talking rubbish but I've only heard this said in either the latter situation or hyperbole.

Testing 14k a day in the UK?.. In New Zealand we test 4k a day on 4.8m people. The hell is going UK...

Isn't that MP actually The Master?

All Universities have lab facilities capable of testing saliva samples, there are also pleanty of private labs also. There's no excuse to not be able to test more when lives are at risk, it's bad enough when the current figures being given out are only estimates and not daily, as they are 2 weeks back dated, and some named Hospitals have entered inccorect data!

Boris get better- ❤️ from the USA

God bless PM Johnson and wish him fast recovery!

Johnson has blood on his hands

when this slows down. is it time to bring pension funds home to grow and support the country and communities that grew them??? the home front will be in great need.

When will the world get together and ban wet markets

♥️🇬🇧 From 🇵🇭 Be safe everyone..

can university students get a refund of their expensive tuition fee?

Glad to see not everyone is the US

Good luck to all my brothers from across the pond "An American" Stay strong💪🏽🇺🇸🇬🇧

Dear BBC - One question.......Has the 'underlying' death rate gone up from last year.....or are you just re-allocating unrelated deaths to Covid-19 because traces of it have been found in their system....

How does Australia have only 39 deaths???

As far I remember, UK announced that they behave differently as compared to other countries, and they proposed social immunity....

BREAKING NEWS : ONE PERSON SURVIVED AND 100 NHS STAFF TAKE A BREAK FROM HUGE HOSPITAL RUSHED OFF THERE FEET WARZONE TO APPLAUD

Why is the UK still only counting people who died in hospital and not, like most other countries, all people, including deaths in care homes and at home?

Will everyone in England be tested for the virus? I just seen a huge temporary mortuary pop up in a east London park, definitely brought the reality home.

is this going to be another glorification of boris johnson? he behaved much like trump in america when this first showed up in England. thousands are dying because of poor and delinquent attention to a worldwide disaster by inadequate leadership.

Tbh, I'm one of the many whose life hasn't really changed. My work place is still open for business (stud bolt manufacturer) it's no where near key work imo and two lads have been furloughed but I'm still going to work every day. I nip to the shops when I need food I just have to queue for s bit and stay away from people. All that's happened is Im not allowed to go to my gf house we just walk from our houses meet half way and walk together outside away from people as much as possible. And I have to work out at home rather than a gym. I might also add that zero social distance has been implemented at my work place. There was a half baked attempt to introduce covid safe practice but we still end up waaay closer than 2m working together because of how the ware house is set and the machines. What's more the manager who tell us "were key business I can furlough you" (even though two lads have been furloughed -yeah I don't know either) are making no attempt to practice social distance! Alll if the office and management staff have been juts behaving normal and talking right in my face and no once keeping distance. It's been two weeks so at this point it doesn't even matter. I wonder how many other firms like mine there are. Where if you weren't watching the news you would have no idea there was anything going on just working at our place

Health care workers should be wearing Hazmat suits (as shown by authorities in South Korea and Taiwan who had experience with MERS and SARS). Masks are not primary prevention strategy. Why is this not being addressed.

Isn't this something expected? Like how can we expect it will stop and decrease over a few days when people still going out like it's the last day they can live (might be who knows).

The UK government really did a horrible job at handling the situation and now the country is doing far worse than they make it look like.

More then 7000 people died and people continue "going for a walk", "going to take sun". It's hard to understand that it's essential to stay inside, at home!!! Omg!

this is heartbreaking, UK does not deserve this. Trump is right, the WHO has not done much to deal with this virus, they were too slow to recognize human to human transmission and discouraged countries who shut their borders to China. WHO also praised China for its transparency so, yes, WHO must beheld accountable

Somerset is dead ive never seen it so quite and I’ve lived here all my life people here are listening

a lot of people die at their homes because they are denied access to hospital, like Thomas Harvey, an nhs worker who called twice 111 and they told him to stay at home, and he is not in very serious condition. He died a few hours later.

Yes the world won't be the same.think it's time we rethink about China.

My mum and I both work in the hospitals and nether of us have been tested

Cmon Boris u can do it 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

7:37 went for an high 5 then realised he's probably still infectious, well done sir!

Terrible handling by the UK government of this crisis, how many are going to die because of their initial herd immunity strategy? There needs to be an inquiry when this is all over.

BBC= Biased Bulls%*t Corporation - spinning the Government lie......and we pay for it !!!

Come on Boris! Kick Corona up its a×××! Get well soon! Xxx

The UK is doing better than the US. The US is failing horribly in this arena. Every country is doing better than the US, which is very upsetting especially with its vast healthcare system. Ms. L. Churchill

Whuhan - Started from the market Coronavirus - now we’re here 🇺🇸

I was wondering... who thinks about couriers? My husband works for Hermes and there are not taking extra measures to save their lives, while people are ordering clothes and beer indoors.

When are we going to riot?

Lockdown means less jobs because businesses go bust, no lockdown means less people to the jobs that are available so businesses go bust.

if we can still save life then we must stay in lock down yes we might lose money but saving life's is much better

No one seem to be dying from any other disease at the moment.

Hello Friend

I hate our media. Laura K looks to trap the Chancellor into saying something unpopular by implying that putting any focus on jobs ahead of saving lives would be bad. Then follows this up with a piece to camera in the street where she discusses how bad it will be if the government doesn't keep the economy going.

Building a 4,000 capacity hospital in 9 days is a stretch, so 100,000 tests a day is a stretch. So what? Seems like we do stretching pretty damned good eh?

Unreliable antibody test......you mean not everyone develops antibodies after infection don't u.

What so special about this man! Theres thousands of people dying why is the stupid media making a big deal about this prime whoever he is!

Please explain to me how more testing sooner wouldn't result in less deaths?

Oh look the Boris is improving ..oh I must go and by a get well soon card and some Grapes for him like he would for me and you...

why can't politicians swallow some national pride and look at which countries in the World responded and got results, there was time. Similar situation in UK to USA, when the answers were out there in the experience of other nations. In the future, there needs to be a structure in place that causes decisions to be made automatically following science and data, without the random input of whatever politician happens to be in power at the time

Looks like China finally made something that lasts more then a month 🤣

Should be OK if UK used PAYPAL to Purchase faulty tests. *Read Buyer Protection Requirements.* www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/ua/useragreement-full?locale.x=en_GB

Yaay we broke the record

36 people are alive after 72 people see this on the 27th march in 13

Americans and Europeans are highly intelligent. They are not wise. Until now, they believed only scientists and politicians. No religion believed in a master. Let's listen to a brief explanation of the Buddha. Is there a good answer here for current situvation. '' ''Perplexed by the seemingly inexplicable, apparent disparity that existed among humanity, a young truth-seeker approached the Buddha and questioned him regarding this intricate problem of inequality: "What is the cause, what is the reason, O Lord," questioned he, "that we find amongst mankind the short-lived and long-lived, the healthy and the diseased, the ugly and beautiful, those lacking influence and the powerful, the poor and the rich, the low-born and the high-born, and the ignorant and the wise?" The Buddha’s reply was: "All living beings have actions (Karma) as their own, their inheritance, their congenital cause, their kinsman, their refuge. It is Karma that differentiates beings into low and high states." He then explained the cause of such differences in accordance with the law of cause and effect. Think about Karma that scientists are not wise enough to prove "According to the seed that’s sown, So is the fruit you reap there from, Doer of good will gather good, Doer of evil, evil reaps, Down is the seed and thou shalt taste The fruit thereof." Karma is a law in itself, which operates in its own field without the intervention of any external, independent ruling agency.

Everyone commenting on here talking about not counting the people that died in the community, we don’t even know if all the deaths reported in the last 24 hours died of Covid or with Covid and before anyone starts there is a big difference as a very large portion of the population has most likely already been infected.

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They have to revise their regulation asap. NHS doctors and nurses are not in quarantine at their home before they are diagnosed as positive even though they have suspicious symptoms and colleagues who are positive. So afraid of the hospital becomes a place which spreads the virus.