RUSHES: Coronavirus: Downing Street press conference October 16th

Coronavirus: Downing Street press conference October 16th; Press conference 3 of 9 ENGLAND: London: Westminster: Downing Street: INT Boris Johnson MP (Prime Minister) speaking at press conference SOT - But it is crucial that we make sure such systems work safely and I must level with you that it will take time to get this right before many organisations can buy and operate these tests themselves. Third, this will need a huge effort across the country, and we will need hospitals, care homes schools, universities and other organisations to work with us as we develop this plan. But the most important thing is that people isolate if they test positive. If you test positive with one of these fast new tests, then you must stay at home. If everyone follows the rule and self-isolates if you have symptoms, get a positive test, or have come into contact with someone who has the virus, we will suppress the disease. And we must all remember that this virus thrives on human contact. So we must do everything in our power to limit its spread. Always think: Hands Face Space, ventilate your buildings, wear a face covering in enclosed spaces, keep your distance from others. And make sure - as I say - you improve ventilation when spending time indoors. If we all do these simple things we’ll protect each other from the virus and we will defeat it together. I’ll hand over to Patrick Valance who will run through the latest data and we’ll then go to your questions. Sir Patrick. Sir Patrick Vallance (Chief Scientific Adviser) speaking at conference SOT - Prevalence, incidents and r value data from ONS survey most reliable way Estimate of number of people with Covid From May numbers got to low levels in July and August Big increase in last couple of weeks 363,000 have Covid across the UK in terms of prevalence of infection at the moment Incidents - number of new per day Test and trace is proportion of total not total random selection ONS and React ...