What time is today’s coronavirus press conference, Sunday, May 31 and who’s chairing it? – The Sun
TODAY'S coronavirus briefing will be held at 4pm and chaired by Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Robert Jenrick.
The team will be discussing shielding and the homeless and are joined by special advisor Dame Louise Casey.
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What time is the press breifing today?
Today's press briefing will start at around 4 pm.
Who's speaking?
Today's briefing will be chaired by Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Robert Jenrick.
He will be joined by Dame Louise Casey, who spearheads the government advisory team on rough sleeping and the homeless.
Today's medical expert is Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Dr Jenny Harries.
What will they discuss?
The main thing they are going to go over will be shielding guidelines.
Yesterday the government announced that 2.2 million people shielding in England will to be able to spend time outdoors from June 1.
The trio will give us an update on the guidance around what interaction extremely vulnerable people will be allowed to take when they finally get to go outside.
The Communities Secretary is expected to set out a plan to review shielding guidance at regular points in the coming weeks too.
Dame Casey is expected to discuss the measures taken on homelessness during the pandemic and how that will be affected by the easing of lockdown.
Dr Harries will give us the daily medical update on how we're doing against coronavirus.
You can find the information that they are likely to go over here.
How to watch it
Today's press conference will be broadcast live by the BBC as well as on the Downing Street YouTube account.
It generally lasts between 20 minutes and an hour.
We will be covering it on our liveblog here.
The briefings have been ongoing since March 16.
You can also watch a recap on our YouTube channel.
What happened in yesterday's press briefing?
Culture and Sport Secretary Oliver Dowden announced a number of lockdown changes surrounding sport in last night's press briefing.
Mr Dowden announced competitive sport will be allowed to return behind closed doors in England from June 1 and people in will be able to exercise outside with up to five others from different households from Monday.
He said: "Football, tennis, horse racing, Formula One, cricket, golf, rugby, snooker and others are all set to return to our screens shortly."
The MP said horse racing is due to resume at Newcastle on Monday with the first major meeting, involving the 2000 Guineas Stakes at Newmarket, coming on June 6.
He also announced:
- Sports will return to TV, including the footy, but no spectators are allowed yet
- Groups of six can exercise together from June 1
- Premier League matches to be shown for free on BBC for the first time in history
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