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Coronavirus: Downing Street press conference April 23rd; ENGLAND: London: Westminster: Downing Street: INT Press conference part 11 of 11 Matt Hancock MP (Health Secretary) answering press questions at daily conference SOT - Finally, Hannah Rodger from the Herald. Q: Why has the UK government been unable thus far to produce a similarly detailed plan, which not only can be scrutinised by the members of the public, but can also be used to get people some hope? Do you agree that one of the ways forward out of the lockdown could be to vary restrictions based on geography, professional sector and by specific demographics and groups of the population? Hancock answering question SOT - Thanks very much Hannah. We’ve set out the five tests that are needed for us to make changes to the lockdown measures, and the Scottish government’s proposals are based on those tests. I think that having the four nations of the UK work together on this has been important thus far, not just on social distancing but also for instance on testing, and I think that the country has essentially moved together, and you can see that in the flattening of the curve which has essentially happened in all regions and nations of the UK together. I think that it’s important that us having set out the test, and now the Scottish government having set out their approach, which is very similar, and based on those five tests we’ve set out, I think that the UK wide approach is the best way to go. Patrick. Sir Patrick Vallance (Government Chief Scientific Adviser) speaking at conference SOT - Just to echo that the scientists are all working together and actually we’re very closely working with the chair of the Scottish Science Advisory group who joins us as well for all our meetings and we share information and we look at all the same things, and the modelling is shared so that people don’t have to repeat what others are doing. So this is very much a unified approach to looking at the different o...
Coronavirus: Downing Street press conference April 23rd; ENGLAND: London: Westminster: Downing Street: INT Press conference part 11 of 11 Matt Hancock MP (Health Secretary) answering press questions at daily conference SOT - Finally, Hannah Rodger from the Herald. Q: Why has the UK government been unable thus far to produce a similarly detailed plan, which not only can be scrutinised by the members of the public, but can also be used to get people some hope? Do you agree that one of the ways forward out of the lockdown could be to vary restrictions based on geography, professional sector and by specific demographics and groups of the population? Hancock answering question SOT - Thanks very much Hannah. We’ve set out the five tests that are needed for us to make changes to the lockdown measures, and the Scottish government’s proposals are based on those tests. I think that having the four nations of the UK work together on this has been important thus far, not just on social distancing but also for instance on testing, and I think that the country has essentially moved together, and you can see that in the flattening of the curve which has essentially happened in all regions and nations of the UK together. I think that it’s important that us having set out the test, and now the Scottish government having set out their approach, which is very similar, and based on those five tests we’ve set out, I think that the UK wide approach is the best way to go. Patrick. Sir Patrick Vallance (Government Chief Scientific Adviser) speaking at conference SOT - Just to echo that the scientists are all working together and actually we’re very closely working with the chair of the Scottish Science Advisory group who joins us as well for all our meetings and we share information and we look at all the same things, and the modelling is shared so that people don’t have to repeat what others are doing. So this is very much a unified approach to looking at the different o...
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