Corona-virus Top stories this morning

Corona-Virus is The Top Stories in this Morning 

Good morning welcome to breakfast with

Megaman Chetty and Charlie stay our

headlines today people needing medical

care from the NHS are urged not to be

put off by the coronavirus pandemic as

visits to A&E dropped by almost half

more virus tests will be offered today

after online bookings were suspended in

the face of overwhelming demand

good morning plans are being drawn up

for the return of the Premier League

here the government has told us it's

working hard to get the live sport back on

TV behind closed doors but only when

knock down restrictions can be eased

the oldest person to reach number one

captain Tom Moore's charity single with

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it looks like another dry day for most

parts of the UK it may be a little bit

gray and gloomy first thing but it looks

like for most of us there will be heat

once again some strong April sunshine on

offer good morning Saturday, April the

25th our top story today a huge drop in

the number of patients seeking urgent

treatment for conditions unrelated to

coronavirus is fueling concerns that

serious problems are being missed the

NHS is launching a campaign to encourage

anyone with health concerns to seek help

as the number of a and E patients fell

by half in the last month, we had to talk

to the medical director of NHS England

professor Stephen powers first though

his John Donnison with the latest much

of the fight against Kovac 19:00 has

been about trying to keep people safe

and out of the hospital but today the NHS is

encouraging people not to be afraid of

seeking treatment for non-coronavirus

conditions it could cost lives now we've

known for a long time and there been

many campaigns in the past about the

number of people going into an E or

contacting their GP when they didn't

need to be seen and I have to say I'm

very surprised I know perhaps expected

in my professional life TIME to be saying

the opposite

it comes as figures from public health

England show the number of people going

to A&E over the past month is down

around 50 percent compared with the same

period last year

that's 1 million fewer visits we are

here for non-coronavirus patients too so

if you're worried about chest pain maybe

you might be having a heart attack or a

stroke

or you feel a lump or you're worried

about cancer or you're a parent

concerned about your child please come

forward and use the health service in

the way that you normally would it is

going to be better to sort those

problems out now rather than leave them

for later meanwhile the new government

website on which key workers and their

families can book coronavirus tests

reopens this morning after it was

inundated with requests yesterday almost

50,000 people in England tried to book a

test just hours after the website was

launched 16,000 people did manage to get

a drive-through appointment or a home

testing kit in terms of the number of

people dying figures released yesterday

showed 768 more reported coronavirus

deaths in the UK since the day before it

takes the total number to more than 19

and a half thousand its could well reach

20,000 today and because that does not

include deaths in care homes or the

community the real figure is likely to

be much higher john Donnison BBC news

well let's speak now to our political

correspondent Nick early who's in our

London newsroom for us this morning so

Nick, it's interesting looking at many of

the front pages this morning a lot of

suggestions about how things might be

changing in terms of social distancing

football, for example, there are stories

about that about how a business might

operate well what's the official line

are on this sort of the nature of

these stories I mean the government

isn't really going into detail and the

moment Charlie about what lifting Locke

then will look like for the simple

the reason that we want to keep the message

pretty simple at the moment which is

you've heard it many times there who

save lives protect NHS and there have

been some movements in Scotland and

Wales but the UK level not that much

discussion about exactly what it will

look like however particularly on that

a story about the Premier League

potentially being back up and running in

a few weeks behind closed doors it is

something that officials in the

the government are talking about it's

something that is being taken seriously

governments are seeing overnight that it

was something that you know it wouldn't

be the same as stadiums being open but

it was something that they were hoping

to get going to try and bring something

resembling normality back to our lives

and Nick we've learned some new phrases

have me some new organizations are very

important in the government's thinking

the scientific advisory group for

emergencies said to meet all the time

and they advise politicians about the

science about medicine and there are

questions about who's involved in that

yeah that's right I mean we've heard the

the government see over and over and over

again that all the decisions are being

made it.