UK: 405,000 sign up to volunteer for the NHS in Covid crisis
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English - March 25, 2020 21:07 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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UK correspondent Matt Dathan joins Kathryn to talk about the surge in people who signed up within 24 hours to help out the NHS in the Covid outbreak. Some 11,000 former medics have also agreed to return to the health service. Prince Charles has tested positive for coronavirus and is now in self-isolation in Scotland, while scientific modelling suggests the UK will reach a peak in 3 - 5 wells, limiting deaths to around 20,000 because of lockdown measures.