Subscribe and 🔔 to OFFICIAL BBC YouTube 👉 https://bit.ly/2IXqEIn Stream original BBC programmes FIRST on BBC iPlayer 👉 https://bbc.in/2J18jYJ 🔘 Subscribe and 🔔 to BBC News 👉 https://bit.ly/3a1zyip 🔘 Stream BBC News live on BBC iPlayer 🔴 https://bbc.in/3b64IVP 🔘 Coronavirus / Covid-19 information: What should I do? 👉 https://bbc.in/39VY5VV 🔘 Follow BBC News live updates here 👉 https://bbc.in/2JmUswL What did we learn from today’s UK briefing? The daily press conference was held by Health Secretary Matt Hancock, who was joined by Prof John Newton, who leads the UK’s testing programme. Here’s what they told us: In order of significance, demographic factors which affects people’s susceptibility to coronavirus include: Age, sex, living in a city, and ethnic background. The government is looking at how to close these gaps, with work led by the equalities minister, Kemi Badenoch Other health inequalities, linked to occupation, income and deprivation, also apply and may partially explain the effect of ethnicity Each day, just over 40,000 antibody tests, which can tell whether someone has previously had the virus, are being administered to NHS and care staff. The government wants to roll them out to the public but Mr Hancock stressed that we do not yet know whether antibodies convey significant immunity After criticism from the statistics watchdog, the government committed to working with the watchdog to publish its statistics in the best way If someone tests negative while isolating due to an instruction from a contract tracer, they must still complete the isolation period. This is
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