RUSHES: Coronavirus: Downing Street press conference April 7th

Coronavirus: Downing Street press conference April 7th; ENGLAND: London: Westminster: Downing Street: INT Dominic Raab MP (Foreign Secretary), Sir Patrick Vallance (Chief Scientific Adviser) and Professor Chris Whitty (Chief Medical Officer for England) press conference / Sir Patrick Vallance (Chief Scientific Adviser) press conference SOT. - Brand new illness, transmits easily and in some severe / Important to break transmission and not allow to go from household / Transport use indicate substantial reduce / Contact reduced dramatically as result of social distancing / Should lead to reduction of virus / Show number of cases from 16 March to 7 April, steady increase, possibly seeing beginning of change in curve flattening, not seeing acceleration / Aim to reduce cases below capacity for NHS and save lives / Hasn't seen accelerated take-off, possible flattening but won't know for week / Important beyond numbers is ICU and keeping numbers down / Want to say thanks to NHS and frontline staff / As well as numbers, clinical trials starting / Over 1,900 in trials across hospitals, important part of tackling / Number of ICU beds increasing, most marked in London but increase throughout country / Deaths across countries, UK on track roughly couple of weeks behind France and Italy / Expect number to lag after ICU cases after couple of weeks, should come down /