Coronavirus press conference (19 April 2020)

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[hamiltonjames]

Have the sound engineers been furloughed? The sound is terrible.

[ardentearth]

Please do better on the audio. Hard to follow when you have hearing difficulties.

[JayLikesLasers]

On education, it would be nice to understand a bit better what this means for current final year students, or university students.
On public health, I'd like to know more about our plans for contact-tracing. Do we intend to introduce the Apple-Google OS with mobile phone bluetooth contact tracing, or does the UK government have something else in mind?

[LiamGaughan]

Whoever's doing the audio for these broadcasts should be furloughed. Permanently. So inconsistent, with different problems every broadcast.

[coliecrellin]

So when is extra mental health support going to be implemented because, as it stands, the current services could not cope with the sheer amount of people who need their care before COVID-19... Because of the social distancing measures more and more people are needing help/care in regards to their mental health (not just because of domestic violence) and the service are just not there... There is already a spike in suicide and the amount of cases will continue to rise... After the lockdown has been lifted there will be a surge of people needing help from the community teams and the mental health services will collapse as they were not coping before the outbreak... Something needs to be done for those with mental health issues... Some sort of supplementary service while the lockdown continues and extra, sufficient funding when the lockdown is lifted to extend capacity and improve quality of care... If something of the sort is not done, there will be many more preventable deaths....

[attlee]

CMO needs to be put on trial. Disgraceful.

[johnrogerson]

It is not good is it. I hope this inability to organise a conference in a conference room is not symbolic of the rest of the UK government's response. Could someone in the Cabinet Office get a grip of this and make sure everything is working properly, slides ready, controls understood etc. before the show begins tomorrow.

[MeM_UK]

I wish they'd vary the media on here. Same stupid questions constantly.