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Coronavirus: Downing Street press conference April 12th; ENGLAND: London: Westminster: Downing Street: INT Press conference part 7 of 8 Dr Yvonne Doyle (Medical Director, Public Health England) and Matt Hancock MP (Health Secretary) question and answer session SOT Q: On whether country was too late in putting in orders and introducing measures to get vital equipment to people Hancock SOT - Well. I think that’s … I don’t quite agree with that. Firstly, when I talk to my colleagues across the world, we share this challenge. And the reason is that we have the stockpiles, we went into this with the stockpiles and the challenge is a logistical one of having previously had an organisation that serves just over 200 NHS organisations. The demand for PH and the need for it has gone up enormously, and there’s now 58,000 organisations that this huge logistical operation services. And so it’s been a challenge of logistics as much as one of supply, and that’s what the PPE plan that I set out on Friday goes into detail of, to explain the challenges in that distribution. But also we, at the same time, of course, have got to replenish the stockpiles that we went into this with. So we did actually go in with some quite significant stockpiles, but of course, given the sheer quantities that we’re distributing across the system, we’re using those stockpiles up and we need to replenish them as well. Arj Singh from the HuffPost. Q: Can we still achieve 20,000 deaths or fewer 'good outcome' given that we have passed 10,000 deaths Hancock SOT - Well that’s … The best way, I’m going to ask Yvonne to come in on this, but I think the thing that I’d say the best way to respond to the question is to say that the future path of this pandemic in this country is determined by how people act. And that’s why it’s so important that people follow the social distancing guidelines. And I know that we sometimes repeat this message, but we repeat it for a reason because it’s so importa...