Health

British jungle and drum and bass DJ and producer Jumpin Jack Frost was an original raver.

Police across the UK have warned that coronavirus is a “real and deadly threat”, as they urged people not to hold parties or gatherings this weekend in breach of lockdown rules.

Peru locked down hard and early, but now it’s battling one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world with their president declaring it “a war”.

Tonight marks the start of the Jewish new year and a fortnight which includes the holiest days in its calendar.

Liverpool is one of the places where new lockdown measures will come into force on Tuesday. We spoke to the Mayor of Liverpool Joe Anderson.

The first ministers of Scotland and Wales have joined the calls for Boris Johnson to convene an emergency Cobra meeting this weekend.

Dr Margaret Harris, from the World Health Organization, joined us from Geneva.

Coronavirus is now spreading at a rapid rate across the UK and officials are warning of “far worse things to come”.

Tonight this programme can reveal that hospitals are again getting ready to rapidly discharge people with the virus into them. 

Joining us now from north London is Helen Wildbore and Consultant Geriatrician Prof Martin Vernon.

Baroness Harding has admitted the number of people trying to book tests was “three to four times” the number of tests which were available.

We spoke to the leader of Newcastle City Council, Nick Forbes and Kim McGuinness the Northumbria Police & Crime Commissioner.

In Gateshead, we are bang in the middle of the area which will be put under strict new lockdown restrictions from midnight – no mixing of households, and pubs and bars to close at 10pm. 

The microbiologist Prof Alan McNally, who helped set up the Lighthouse diagnostic labs network to support the fight against Covid, joined us from Birmingham.

We have been asking people around the country for their experiences of trying to get a test over the past few days.